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How to Remove Duplicate Photos on iPhone: Save Space and Time with This Guide

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As an avid iPhone photographer, you’ve probably noticed that, for whatever reason, you end up with duplicate photos. Not only do these duplicates take up unnecessary space on your device, they can also make your photo gallery look messy and disorganized. Manually sifting through thousands of photos to find and remove duplicates is time-consuming. It’s also often difficult to tell whether the photos are actually identical or have slight differences. As a result, you run the risk of accidentally deleting important photos while cleaning up duplicates.

How Leapp Will Help You

But don’t worry, we’re here to help! At leapp, we understand the importance of having an organized photo gallery and how frustrating it can be to manually delete duplicate photos. That’s why we’ve created a step-by-step guide to walk you through the process. You won’t have to worry about storage space, something iCloud can solve, or accidentally deleting important photos.

Removing duplicate photos

Before you start deleting duplicate photos, it’s a good idea to back up your photos just in case. You can do this via iCloud or by connecting your device to your computer and copying the photos. This way, you can be sure that you won’t lose any important photos. If you do accidentally delete an unintended photo, you can easily recover it.

Removing duplicate photos can be done manually by selecting each duplicate and clicking the trash button. If you have a lot of photos on your iPhone , this task is very time-consuming. Fortunately, there are other options to quickly detect and remove duplicate photos.

The first and easiest option is via your iPhone itself. To automatically remove duplicate photos, first go to the Photos app on your iPhone. Then click on 'Albums' and scroll all the way down. There, under 'Other', click on 'Duplicate Items'. If this is not there, no duplicate photos were found on your iPhone. Then click on 'Combine' to merge the duplicate photos. To confirm, click on 'Merge (number of) items'. All duplicates in your photo gallery have now been removed.

The second option is via an app. There are a number of apps available in the App Store that are specifically designed to detect and remove duplicate photos. It does take a bit more effort (and perhaps money) to download such an iPhone app and use it to detect and remove duplicate photos.

In addition to removing duplicates, it can also be helpful to organize your photo gallery. You can do this by creating albums and sorting your photos into them. For example, you can create an album for family photos, vacation photos, photos of your pets, and so on. This will make it easier to find specific photos and avoid creating duplicates in the future.

How Leapp can help you further

At leapp, we want you to get the most out of your Apple products. That’s why we not only offer high-quality refurbished Apple products, but also help you get the most out of them. Whether you need help finding and removing duplicate photos, organizing your photo gallery, or optimizing your storage space , we’re here for you.

And best of all, we do this in a sustainable way. All of our products are refurbished, which means they’ve been cleaned, refreshed and upgraded to work as good as new. This is not only good for your wallet, but also for the environment. So why pay more for a new device when you can get a high-quality refurbished device for a fraction of the price? We have the tools and the expertise to help you achieve your goals. And we do it all with a smile and a passion for what we do. Visit our website and find out how we can help you. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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