

Even if you take two photos together that are very similar, Apple's merging feature will intelligently keep the highest detail and the most metadata, creating the best possible image. You can click this button to merge duplicate sets into an individual photo. Inside the Duplicates album are any duplicates listed in chronological order, with a Merge option beside each set. You can find it in the Photos sidebar, just note that the album only appears if you do indeed have duplicate images in your library. In macOS Ventura, however, that's no longer the case, because the Photos app will now automatically detect any duplicates in your library and collate them together for your inspection.įinding duplicates is easy, since Apple has added a new Duplicates album to the Photos app.

You could click Clean duplicates or click “Unselect All” from left of the change folder in order to manually select and delete images because removing everything at once could cause a data loss.In previous versions of macOS, relying on your Mac to automatically track down duplicate photos in your Photo Library wasn't an option, and if you wanted to purge your library of duplicates you had to download a third-party app.

Let the scanning process take time and wait until it ends.Īfter the scan, the app will show you all the duplicate images. The scanning process could take time depending upon the number of duplicates, clutter in disk space. Now Click the “Select Folder and Scan Duplicates Now” button and select the folder or drive where you want the app to start scanning for duplicate images.

This would allow the app to search and scan the duplicate photos in every drive, file in your Mac. Here, you will see “Ignore directories with names” list. Launch Photos Duplicate Cleaner for Photos app. Meet Photos duplicate cleaner, a tool which scans, searches and removes duplicate photos from every file and disk drive of your Mac. But the good news is that you can delete duplicate photos in Mac for free using Apple’s native tool. Searching and deleting duplicate photos in Mac is a tedious task which makes people delay it, which only makes the scene worse. Also, a single edit in one photo is stored as a new photo because Mac takes it as a completely different photo. Duplicate photos can take up GBs of space. For those who are avid photo enthusiasts-edit, share, take photos and save them on their Mac- duplicate photos keep piling up seamlessly, and one day you wake up to see Mac disk space going down mysteriously. Duplicate photos in Mac OS X is a big problem.
