So any duplicates will be right next to each other. This shows everything in chronological order. Once you have changed things so you will no longer have new photos imported twice, then you can get rid of duplicates.Īn easy way to do that is to look at the All Photos view in the Photos app. These are just two ways of viewing your library and there is still just one copy of the photo. Other times, people see the photo in the All Photos view and in an album and assume that there are two copies. But there is just one copy and the albums both link to that same photo. Then people see it in both albums and assume there are two 'copies' of the photo. It is possible and common to put a photo into two albums for instance. Just turn off Photo Stream.Īnother reason I have to mention is that sometimes people think they have two copies when they do not.

But if could be something else too, like having old Photo Stream turned on and also importing the photos, resulting in two copies. One reason may be that you accidentally imported photos a second time from a camera. No point getting rid of the duplicates if you are just going to end up with more. The very thought of having some automatic process determine which of my precious photos are duplicates and permanently deleting them makes me uncomfortable.įirst, figure out why you have duplicates. Having someone or something else automatically delete them is bad.

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