Is your iPhone’s storage space getting full quickly? There’s a feature that makes space painless: deleting duplicate photos in your camera roll. We explain how to activate it.
Many of us document our lives with our iPhones, whose photographic skills are well established. Some have well-stocked albums that retrace their adventures step by step. However, having a very large number of photos eats up a lot of storage space. And between applications, videos, music, OS, your iPhone can quickly become saturated, especially if you have opted for the configuration with the least amount of storage space.
There is a very simple trick that can free up space by deleting your duplicate photos. For information, the iPhone considers that a photo has a duplicate when it has an identical copy but with different metadata. Two identical photos that have a different definition or format are also considered duplicates.
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How to delete duplicate photos on iPhone?
- Open the app Pictures.
- Access to Albums then scroll down until you find the Others section.
- Press on Doubloons (this album will only appear if you have duplicates)
- Touch the button Merge in order to associate the duplicates.
- Confirm the maneuver by pressing « Merge [nombre] elements ».
As Apple specifies, this operation will combine the most qualitative version as well as all the important data of the duplicates. A single photo will then be kept in your album, unnecessary duplicates landing in the album Recently deleted. They will remain there for 30 days and then permanently disappear from your device. You can also delete them manually to get it over with faster or, on the contrary, restore them.
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