
They are just collected for Photos's internal use.īut we can use the "curated" Days as a starting point to detect duplicates with a smart album, that is showing us the suppressed photos and videos. Photos intelligently showcases the best shots in your library, removing duplicates and clutter.”īut there are no albums, where the duplicates are collected to help us to remove them easily. And Photos is even smarter, so it can highlight important moments like birthdays, anniversaries and trips." Browse your favourite photos by days, months and years, and get larger previews of all your photos. See only the best shots in your library, without the duplicates and clutter. Photos has a new immersive, dynamic look that showcases your photos and memories. But it will not remove duplicates, it it just brushing the duplicates and similar photos below the carpet and keeping them out of sight for a more compact presentation. Photos 5.0 on Catalina is detecting duplicates, so it can present the photos in the Days without duplicates and similar photos. This suggests, that Photos is searching for duplicates to help us to remove them. Below the "Days", "Months", "Years" in the Photos view we may be seeing this message in a long loop of related messages: Photos 5.0 on Catalina has a new feature. Some third-party tools can damage our Photos Library: Using third-party apps to remove duplicate photos might damage your Photos for macOS library - Apple Support To find similar photos we have to search manually or use third party duplicate finders. Or very similar photos taken as a burst in quick succession. But there may still be very similar photos - multiple edited versions of the photos, downsized versions imported from Shared Albums, or similar. Given this filtering on import and upload, there should not be any duplicate, identical original image files in our Photos Library, unless we force Photos to import the same file twice. If we upload the same photos from several devices to iCloud, Photos will keep only one master file in iCloud.

When syncing with iCloud Photos: Photos is searching for duplicates, when we are syncing photos and videos from several devices with iCloud Photos.We can now decide to skip this duplicate. When importing new Photos to the Photos Library: We might see an alert, if we try to import an exact duplicate of a file, that already has been imported.The early versions of Photos have only been searching for duplicates on two occasions:
