3 Ways to Remove Duplicated Photos on iPhone Automatically

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It is easy to sync photos from your PC or online cloud services to iPhone. Sometimes, some same photos will be synced to iPhone more than once, which leads to duplicated photos. In order to free some space on iPhone, you can remove these duplicated items.

It is tedious work to manually select and delete duplicated photos. Luckily, in this article, I will show you 3 different methods to remove duplicate photos from your iPhone library. The first one is totally free without jailbreaking or PC.

Method 1: Remove Duplicate Photos with Siri Shortcuts

Siri Shortcuts is one of the main features in iOS 12. The Shortcuts app allows you to automate many things on your iPhone. Many things impossible is now possible with Shortcuts app on iPhone. If you haven’t used it, you should get started now.

I have created a shortcut to find and remove duplicate photos on iPhone or iPad. You need to Go to Settings and disable iCloud Photos for this shortcut to work. You can refer to the steps below to see how it works.

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Step 1. Download the Shortcuts app on your iPhone if you haven’t. Then get this Delete Duplicated Photos shortcut. You can open the link in Safari to download it on your iOS device.

Step 2. Open the shortcuts app and simply run this shortcut.

Step 3.This shortcut will give you a preview of all the duplicated photos detected. If there is no problem, just tap on Done to continue.

Step 4. Shortcuts app needs your permission to delete any photos from your iPhone. Tap on OK to delete all the duplicated items.

This can only detect exact photos as duplicates. For example, if you have downloaded a photo or videos twice, this shortcut will help you delete it. If you take a few photos of the same scene, then this shortcut will not regard them as duplicates.

This shortcut is using MD5 value to demine if a photo is duplicated, so no additional app required. If you want to find and delete similar photos, you can check the next method.

Method 2: Remove iPhone Duplicate Photos with Gemini

There is a paid app from AppStore called Gemini that uses a smart machine-learning algorithm to help you delete duplicate photos on your iPhone. It is very accurate, it even detects the similar photos.

It allows you to run the three days of free trial. After the free trial. If you want to use it further, you can make an in-app purchase of $1.99 per month, $11.99 per year, or $14.99 for a lifetime.

When you run it for the first time, the app will scan your iPhone Photos library including screenshots, selfies, bursts, panoramas, animated, or even videos. When it is done, you’ll see two folders of photos: similar and clutter. Then you can tap on to delete duplicated images on iPhone accordingly.

Method 3: Remove Duplicate Photos with IOTransfer

IOTransfer is a file transfer program that allows you to manage and transfer files between PC and iOS devices. It also comes with a few handy features including Similar Photos Cleaner, Video Converter, iCloud Photo Manager, etc. So, you can use it to delete duplicated photos on iPhone.

Well, IOTransfer is only available for Windows and you need to connect your iPhone to PC via USB cable before you can use this Similar Photo Cleaner tool. You can let it scan similar photos on your iOS device or PC and then you can choose the results to delete.

Bonus: Remove iPhone Duplicated Photos from PC

In Windows 10 or MacOS, you can directly view all photos on your iPhone if you connect your device through USB cable. Therefore, you can use computer software to remove duplicated photos on iOS device.

For me, I have CCleaner the free version, which is capable of deleting duplicates. CCleaner allows you to perform an advanced search to find duplicates on your iPhone and delete them in one click.

Step 1. Install CCleaner software. The free version or any other version will work.

Step 2. Select Tools from the left sidebar, and choose Duplicate Finder.

Step 3. Change the configuration for searches for duplicate files if needed. You can just leave it as the default.

Step 4. Choose the iPhone photo library folder and click the Search button to start.

Step 5. When the search is complete, all the duplicates will be listed. You can select the files you’d like to remove and click the Delete Selected button to remove duplicates.

That’s all the 3 methods to help you get rid of duplicate photos on iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. All have been tested working in 2019. Now it is your turn. Which method are you going to try first? If you know an even better solution, let us know in the comments.