I have 30,000 images over a 10 year span. I confirmed this with Apple Support today (10:30am PDT - James - 17:58min hold time) and they're recommendation was to not use any 3rd party app as they will likely corrupt the Apple Photo Library.Īpple support recommends importing all photos and going through them manually. This means Apple Photo will recognize a photo as a duplicate during an import if it has the same file name even when it's a different photo. So you will invariably end up with multiple photos with camera assigned names like IMG_0001 but they are different photos (with the same name). This issue I and I'm sure many others have is that the automatic image naming that various camera's use is often the same.

Submit Enhancement Request using Apple Mac OS 'Photos' app feedback formĭo you or anyone else on the thread know if any of the 3rd party apps mentioned above actually look at the images visual characteristics when determining if it's a duplicate?

Submit Enhancement Request using Apple IOS 'Photos' app feedback form Please log a 'Photos Feature Request' or 'Photos Enhancement Request' using Apple 'Photos' app feedback form below to help resolve this problem Please log a 'Photos Feature Request' or 'Photos Enhancement Request' using Apple 'Photos' app feedback form below to help resolve this problemĪpple support 'photos' specialist confirmed following :ġ) The new Photos app and old iphoto app had a way to search for duplicates on import this does not work once the duplicate photos are imported into library (by error or otherwise)Ģ) Apple photos has no way to search for duplicate photos, they suggested that users 'manually search for duplicate photos'.ģ) Apple support do not recommend third party apps to remove photos as they can damage the library.Ĥ) They acknowledged this approach is less than ideal when you have 20,000+ photos (or in my case 80,000 + photos) and suggested that all users who have concerns should log a new feature request using apple feedback form (URL below for IOS and OS Mac Photos feedback form). All, I spoke to Apple support today () and they confirmed that as of today Photos App has no way to identify or find duplicate photos in your photo library or icloud library.

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