How to Find and Delete Duplicate Photos in Google Photos and Apple Photos
Duplicate photos or videos cause a lot of problems in terms of wasting storage space. Besides, having duplicate images or videos leads to a lot of trouble while searching for a necessary image or video. Fortunately, the Apple Photos and Google Photos apps have a variety of ways to remove duplicate photos or videos. As a result, you can easily save only one copy of your photo or video.
However, when backing up a photo or video to a different location or device, you must duplicate the photo or video. But in today's article we will discuss the problem of duplicating the same photo or video even in the same device or backup. Copies of these duplicate images or videos can be safely deleted if you wish.
In our article we will talk about exact duplicate of an image. But many times we take multiple pictures of the same situation while taking pictures. These images are not considered as duplicate images but you can find them and delete them from your device if you want. You won't have much trouble finding it either. Because similar images are located side by side in your photo library.
How to free up space in Google Photos?
Google Photos actually doesn't allow you to upload duplicate photos or videos. If you allow uploading of a video or image or a folder containing files that are already in your library, it will run the upload motion but will not actually upload all the images or videos that are asked to be re-uploaded.
Google Photos helps keep everything neatly organized in your cloud. If you save your photo or video in original quality to Google Photos, you no longer need to save it to your local computer. This greatly reduces the possibility of duplicate copies of images or videos. When you need those pictures or videos again, you can download them if you want. Google Photos no longer gives you any option to sync your cloud library with a local hard drive folder. If you need a backup copy, you need to manually back it up from Google Photos or use Google Take Out.
Currently, there is no easy way to automatically delete duplicate photos in Google Photos. But if you want, you can open the Google Photos library and manually select the photos and delete them. Also, if you have many duplicate photos uploaded to Google Photos, then Google's AI can detect them and show you a notification. In that case you can take action accordingly.
How to free up space in Apple Photos
If you want to manage your photos and videos using Apple Photos, there is good news for you. Because Apple Photos has a built-in option to find duplicate photos or videos. Using which you can find duplicate images or videos very easily.
If you're using a Mac, launch the Photos app. Now find the duplicate entry option from the navigation bar on the left side. You will be shown duplicate copies of your photos or videos here. From here you can click on Merge X Items and delete the rest leaving only one copy.
On the other hand, on iPhone or iPad, you need to go to the Photos app first. After that, if you tap on the album here and scroll down, you will get the duplicate entry option. Selecting this will allow you to see which images in your library have duplicate copies. Now, if you click on the merge button next to any entry from the list of duplicate images or videos here, all duplicate copies of that image or video will be deleted.
However, these duplicate photos or videos will not be deleted once and for all. You can find all these copies within 30 days from the Recently Deleted album. Here you can delete it permanently from your iPhone or iPad by manually deleting it after 30 days or within 30 days.
Some of the best third party apps to free up space in photo library
Currently there are many third party apps to find and delete duplicate photos or videos on your computer. Although some of these apps are free, if your problem is too much, then you can buy the app by paying money. As a result, you get a professional product that allows you to work better and do it in a safer way.
Gemini 2 for Mac OS is a very popular file finder. It works very fast and can search every corner of your system to find similar images as well as duplicates. On the other hand, AllDup is very effective and very easy to use for Windows users. Also, since this software is free, you can use it without spending any money. There are many free tools that are not trustworthy and are loaded with a lot of ads. But in this case this tool is able to provide very good service.
Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is another good software. It would be wise to use it as it can be used on all operating systems like Windows, Mac OS, Android and iOS. Although it costs $40, you can use it for free. In that case, even if you don't get all the services, you can decide where you are looking for and what the difference between your duplicate photos will be. As a result, your experience of finding duplicate photos or videos will be better.
Nowadays, the size of pictures or videos taken with well-configured phones is relatively large. In these cases, if duplicate pictures or videos are saved on the phone, it wastes a lot of space. But by reading this article, we hope you can easily delete duplicate photos or videos from now on. You can tell us how you like this article through our comments. Keep an eye on our website to get various information and tips and tricks on the latest technology.
