This guide will show you how to find duplicate photos on iPhone. You can go to the Photos app and find them yourself, or let the deduplication tool quickly find all the duplicate photos with one click.
With the advanced camera of iPhone, everyone can take great photos. In order to get the best one of that moment, we usually don't just take one shot but try many times to get the perfect composition or the right light. However, over time, you will find that photos consume your space and those duplicate photos should be condemned. So you may want to learn how to find duplicate photos on iPhone.
It’s time to delete duplicate photos on iPhone to free up space. Most people have thousands of photos on iPhone, is there an easy way to find duplicate photos from a large number of photos? Well, normally, you can go to Photos app to find duplicate photos by yourself. If you have a large photo library, it’s recommended to let deduplication tools help you find all duplicate photos at once.
iPhone can detect duplicate photos using the built-in Photos app starting from iOS 16. Make sure you already updated your iOS to the latest.
If you do not want third-party apps to access your photos, you can try to find duplicate photos manually. This process can be time-consuming, depending on how many photos you have stored on your iPhone because you have to find them by yourself.
> Search by Category
Duplicate images and similar photos are usually taken at the same time or in the same place. You can check your pictures by date or location to find duplicate photos.
> Search by Keywords
Go to Photos app > Tap Search > Tap the search bar and enter one keyword to search for specific people, places, etc.
If you have a large photo library, you can let third-party apps help you quickly find all duplicate photos on iPhone.
There are many duplicate photo cleaners for iPhone, such as Gemini Photos, Cleaner for iPhone, Remo Duplicate Photos Remover, etc. and you can get them from App Store. In addition, some PC-based iPhone data management tools also provide such features.
Here we take Gemini Photos as an example to show you how to find duplicate photos. Gemini is an often recommended photo de-duplication tool. It will find duplicate pictures and similar-looking pictures.
1. Download Gemini Photos from App Store.
2. Open the app and let it scan your photos. (Gemini Photos is one paid app but users can try all the Gemini features free for three days.)
3. When the scan is finished, you can go to the Duplicates or Similar folder to find your duplicate photos.
4. You can tap the Delete button to remove unwanted photos. The deleted photos will be moved to Recently Deleted album in Photos app.
FoneTool is one PC-based app to find duplicate photos on iPhone. Its Photo Deduplication feature will scan your photo library and find all duplicate photos. Then you can delete unwanted photos quickly. In addition, it can also help you find duplicate photos on computer.
1. Download, install and launch FoneTool > Connect iPhone to computer via USB cable.
2. Choose Toolbox > Photo Deduplication.
3. Click Scan iOS Device option.
4. Set the filter date range > Click Start scanning.
5. It will list all duplicate photos on your device. You can click Delete button to remove unwanted photos.
By the way, FoneTool is good at data transfer between iPhone and computer. It offers 3 transfer models: iPhone to PC, PC to iPhone, iPhone to iPhone.
If you want to transfer pictures to Windows, you can click the Phone Transfer and choose iPhone to PC option to transfer photos from iPhone to computer for further editing. And it can be finished within a superfast speed. For example, import 100+ photos only need 3 seconds.
If you are using Google Photos to back up your photos, you can take advantage of its Search feature to find duplicate photos. It will analyze all your photos and group them based on Google's algorithm. For example, when you search for a keyword like “beach”, Google Photos will pull up all photos related to "beach".
1. Open Google Photos on your iPhone.
2. Tap the search bar and enter what you want to find > Then it will list all similar-looking images.
3. If you want to delete some duplicate photos, you can tap and hold the pictures you want to delete > tap the Trash Can icon to make it.
That’s all about how to find duplicate photos on iPhone 15/14/13/12/11/X. It’s not difficult to find duplicates on iPhone and delete them. To save time and energy, you may use deduplication tools to achieve the goal.
PS: Before deleting duplicate photos, you can first backup iPhone photos in case you accidentally delete some important ones.
