Same here I spends months doing that function manually it is so hard , i have many duplicate from 15 years ago untill now😂

Same here!!!

Ditto ! 👍🏼 Man , soooo many years of odd self-replicating photo incidents and we now finally have something that’s built-in to fight this problem. 👍🏼

Hi John, were you able to test it out and see if the album designations still worked?

@@PaulKrone-SaintLucia Hi Paul. Yes the album designation did work on the test I did. Sorry I didn't post back here about it. I allocated a photo having a small size (low resolution) to a Test album. Its duplicate was much larger in size (high resolution), but hadn't been allocated to that album. After merging, the larger sized photo was shown in the Test album, even though it wasn't originally allocated. The smaller sized photo no longer appeared in the Test album. Clearly, the better photo (with higher resolution and size) replaced the lower resolution photo in the album. Hope I've explained that clearly and that it helps you.

@@cogmovies This is exactly what I've been trying to find out, thank you so much for this!

@@elfichilds5340 Glad it helped you Elfi - thank you for your comment! 👍😎

If that is what it is doing, then I would assume so. Makes sense.

Yes, it is on the iPad and Mac as well with the latest versions of iPadOS and macOS.

@@macmost Thank you for letting me know bro. I was hesitant to upgrade my m1 12.9 pro to the latest update. But now I have a good reason to do it. Just deleted or merged 2600 photos on my iPhone 13. As a photographer and designer this to me is one of the best features introduced with ios 16. Thanks again. Going to update my iPad software right away.

So, do you have duplicates? Sounds like you just have one photo and have placed it in two albums. Those aren't duplicates. You only have the photo once. Albums are just different lists of photos that link to the originals in your library.

Other commenters here have reported that it does.

@@macmost excellent news, thanks.

Good question. There does not appear to be a way. Hopefully something they'll add.

This feature will come to macOS with Ventura soon.

What view are you using when you see these photos out of order? Library > All Photos? Or something else? If you check the dates on the photos are they correct? I don't know what you are asking by "pick up the photos or the people?" What do you mean by that?

Update: FWIW 331 duplicates showed up 1 day later. After merging the duplicates the option disappeared. Apparently it doesn’t show up on the menu UNLESS there are duplicates.

What are you saying? Recents are must to know exactly about photos. If you don’t need Recents, ignore it.

Don't use the special "Recents" for this. Just view "All Photos" in your library. I never use "recents" at all, only Library (All Photos) and Albums sometimes.

No, you just have to ignore that one.

@@macmost Thank you very much.

Perhaps wait for it to find them? No idea why it wouldn't show for you if you are sure you have actual duplicates.

Plug in mobile and charge battery for full night. You will find many duplicates in the morning.

@@macmost Thank you for your prompt reply.

​@@bharatkiseema The phone was plugged in last night. Unfortunately it didn't work. Thank you for your reply.

Yes, if you are using iCloud Photos, that should work.

If there is any difference at all, it will choose the higher resolution one.

If you merge them, there wouldn't be a duplicate anymore. You'd have ONE photo, and it would be in both albums.

I have a very old one on that (search and it comes right up) but the way I would recommend doing it today is to stick to the rule of one project = one library. Use iMovie libraries as iMovie "documents" so you can easily move them to another drive when you are done with them.

@@macmost That’s great. I’ll try that. Thank you.

If you just updated, wait. Check again tomorrow. It takes time to find them.

I'd imagine the date on the remaining photo would be the earlier one, which makes logical sense. But try it and see.

You have to wait. It takes time for the device to find the duplicates. Check again tomorrow.

No, that isn't a duplicate. Albums just link to the photo in the library. You aren't duplicating anything when you add a photo to an album. See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fJuGobVlsb-UoJ8.html

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Thank you for the explanation. It helped 👍😁

Which iPhone do you have? You can find the compatibility list here: www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/

I don't know what you are talking about. Shuffle photos? Widgets?

There is an album (not a folder) for them yes. If you crop it, it will be cropped. You'd have to duplicate it first, then crop it. Not sure if it will appear as a duplicate then. Try it and see.

Either you have no duplicates, or maybe you just need to wait another day or two for it to find them.

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This deals with duplicate photos in your library. The same photo in two albums is NOT a duplicate. There is just one photo, listed in two places. Albums are kind of like playlists in Music or Smart Folders in the Finder. They are just lists of photos from your library. When you merge two photos, it correctly keeps the photo in both albums as it should. Lots of people would be very upset if it did not. If your goal is to clean up your albums, then go into each album and remove photos you don't want to see there anymore. It is up to you how you use albums.

@@macmost Yes, I realise that. That's what I meant by 'visible' in different albums even if the *data* of the photo itself is not duplicated. Apologies if my terminology was not clear. The problem is that I don't want such photos visible ('listed') in several albums. I would like all the photos from japan 2010 to be in the 'japan 2015' album and the photos from london in 2020 to be in the 'london 2020' album and *not* also visible/listed in albums called things like 'photo import dump done in 2021ish' and 'did i import these already?' and 'photos pulled of an old phone many of which will have already been imported back when i used it', and so on. There are over a dozen such random albums made up entirely of massive photo dumps that -- as well as trying to eliminate duplicates -- I am trying to organise. For people who have been with Apple Photos or similar from Day 1, particularly if they mostly shoot on phones -- many users I'm sure -- then you are absolutely right. Their issue is only the duplicates, they don't have the album organisation issue. For users like me, who have been taking pictures since before the cloud or even digital photos were a thing, and who have switched between various kinds of Android, iPhone, SLRs, video cameras, wired and wireless export/import, etc, then it's not all in a neat, chronological Apple-organised stream. And given the number of photos involved -- many 000s -- it's not trivial to sort it out manually. So yes, it would be terrible for most users if it automatically removed the visibility/listing of the image in all but one album, but it need not do that. It could tell you in which album each duplicate photo sits and then you can chose to delete the one you don't want (typically in the 'wrong' album) or merge them. You already get lots of info from right-clicking an image in the duplicates list, down to the lens used, so it would be trivial for Apple to list the album it sits in too. In fact I think there is a 3rd party app, Power Photos, that does just that with duplicates it finds but I'm wary of using a 3rd party app that might damage the library. Anyway, maybe Apple will include this simple but useful info in future releases. Fingers crossed...

@@mobiledisco Keep in mind that when you add a photo to an album where it is already there, it is still going to be there just once. So in the case of your "Japan 2010" and "Japan 2015" albums, just go to the Japan 2010 album, select all, and move them into Japan 2015. Then delete the Japan 2010 album. In the case of "photo import dump done in 2021ish" maybe just delete that album completely.

Reports are that if one of the duplicates is in an album, and you merge, the one remaining will be in that album.

I don't think so. Try it and see. But I would think they would exclude the Hidden folder, right?

So you are re-editing their video slideshow? Not sure if there is any shortcut that would make that easier.

okay thanks so much I was afraid of that. I am acutally making the video from pictures that they send me. @@macmost

You can select multiple ones the normal way you do in macOS. But I recommend against it. Your photos are valuable. Don't do it in bulk and make a mistake and lose a photo forever. Do a few here and a few there, over days, weeks, or months. You'll get there. Be patient, it is worth it.

Yes. If A is in album 1 and B is in album 2 and A and B are duplicates then it deletes B and A is now in both albums 1 and 2. Try it and see.

From your iPhone to your Mac? There's no good way. If you are using old-fashioned sync, then the sync goes Mac-to-iPhone, not the other way around. There are sketchy third-party apps that will do some of it, but it will be a mess. Going from your backup to your Mac is going to be better. Then for next time make sure you have a real backup (Time Machine, online, etc) for your files.

Yep! I think you can just press the select button at the top and then it will give you the option to merge all photos. Hope this helps!

No. And you don't want to. You don't want an automatic process that could delete one you want. Never worth it. Just review them a few here and a few there over time. No rush.

@@antongrimm Yeah, I figured it out. But thanks!

@@macmost Thanks. That'll take me a while, but that's OK. Again, great video!

Yes, but I recommend against it. If you don't have time now, just do a few. Then a few later. What's the rush? Otherwise, you can select multiple ones the way you select multiple things anywhere in macOS (Shift+click to select a range).

@@macmost Too late, I took your advice and downloaded the program you recommended. It only deleted 6,000 so I have another 1,000 to do by hand. Hopefully I have not screwed things up too much!

@@really9025 Program I recommended? I have never recommended another app for deleting duplicate photos in the Photos app. Not sure what you mean by that.

Probably just need to wait longer for them to show up on your iPad. In the meantime, if you are inpatient, you can merge them on your iPhone.

@@macmost I’ve done it on my iPhone and worked perfectly

Are they in iCloud Photo Library now? (You can have your iCloud Photo Library stored on an external drive, they aren't exclusive). If they are in iCloud now, they should be able to be in the new shared library feature when that is available.

@@macmost My mom’s photos are stored on photos library but on an external hard drive (not on her mac). She can only view them on her mac when she connects her external hard drive. She can not see those photos on her iPhone.

@@ethanmenzel So they are not in iCloud Photos? If so, then they definitely can't use the new iCloud Shared Library feature when it comes out.

@@macmost booooo!

@@ethanmenzel I mean it is just a simple matter of photos not in iCloud Photos cannot use iCloud Photos features. Why not just turn on iCloud Photos for her then if that is what you want?

I don't know. I don't have two such photos handy to test. If you get a chance to try it...

Another commenter here said he tried it and it is the earliest. That makes the most sense anyway.

This is a feature of iOS 16. It wouldn't be there in iOS 15.

No idea. Check tomorrow.

Keep mobile plugged in while night….. in the morning you will find many duplicates.

wait. on my Iph12 it showed after 2 days.

Perhaps you just haven't given it enough time.

When you view the "Photos Library" it is a list of ALL of the photos in your photos library. So yes, it includes everything. You can't have something in an album that isn't in your library. These are not duplicates. They are just different ways of viewing your photos. The Library view is everything. Albums are collections you create. If you want to only view albums, then just view your albums and don't look in at the "Library" view. See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fJuGobVlsb-UoJ8.html

@@macmost Thanks Mac. And yep, I realize they’re not considered duplicates for the reason you stated. Just wish I didn’t have the originals still in the Library making it difficult to locate photos I’ve not placed in an Album, if that makes sense. In the grand scheme of life, this remains a trivial matter but thought I’d ask. Thanks for the video!

@@BeckVMH You need to re-think "in the Library." Your Library is everything, by definition. If you want to see what is not in an album, create a Smart Album with "Album is not any" and you'll see everything not in an album.

@@macmost Will do, thank you.

Either you don't have any duplicates, or you haven't waited long enough.

Not sure. But it probably is.

Good question LWH LWH. I was thinking the same. It's something I'll have to test. Logically, it should preserve the album designation, given that it preserves the metadata and caption from each duplicate photo.

How long have you waited? It won't appear right away. Give it a few days to work to find them.

@@macmost It's been 4 days and its only found 4 out of a few hundred duplicates. Didn't work for me, hope it worked for others. Also, these duplicates are pictures I can't trash. There is no trash symbol at the bottom of these duplicates.

@@sizzlemann Are you on an iPhone? iPad? Mac? Is an iPhone, are you perhaps not letting it charge at night? I don't think it works at this if the battery is in use and it is lower. But if you don't see a trash icon I wonder if these are photos manually synced to your iPhone instead of using iCloud Photos? Or maybe in a Shared album?

@@macmost these are photos on an iPhone. I don't use iCloud. Phone is fully charged at night and never gets below 50% at any time. I load my photos to my Macbook Pro now and then. But somehow they made duplicates of all the photos and put them into my iPhone. I can delete the original, but not the duplicate. I want to get rid of all the duplicates but not sure how to do that.

@@sizzlemann It really depends on why the duplicates are there and what you did to create them. I wouldn't want to advise you how to delete something so valuable without knowing more and seeing firsthand what the problem is. So perhaps work with an expert on that to have them look at what is going on.

Seems like adding keywords to your photos is what you want. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npORapZqsbHSoqM.html

No, and you don't want it to. An "automatic" process may delete something you want to keep. First, figure out why you have so many duplicates if you don't already know (a mistaken import from a while back?) so it doesn't happen again. Then just take the time to go through some duplicates here and there when you have time.

Oh, I see what you mean. Be easy to check if you happen to have a duplicate and want to test it.