RydopHow to delete duplicate photos on iPhone
Your iPhone finds duplicates on its own. Open Photos, tap Collections, scroll down and tap Duplicates under Utilities, then tap Merge on a set. To do them all at once, tap Select, then Select All, then Merge. Photos keeps the copy in the best quality, adds the relevant data from the others, and moves the rest to Recently Deleted.
Merge duplicates in the Photos app
- Open Photos and tap Collections.
- Scroll down and tap Duplicates under Utilities. The copies of each photo are shown side by side.
- Tap Merge next to a set, then Merge [number] Items to confirm.
- For many sets at once, tap Select, then Select on each set or Select All, and tap Merge.
On iOS 17, Duplicates is in the Albums tab. Merging keeps one photo in the highest quality and combines the relevant data from the copies into it. The other copies go to Recently Deleted. These steps follow Apple’s guides Merge duplicate photos and videos on iPhone and Delete photos on your iPhone or iPad.
If you don’t see Duplicates
- The album only appears when Photos has found duplicates. It needs iOS 16 or later.
- Photos looks for duplicates by itself in the background. On a large library, or right after an update, that can take a while.
- Photos you put on the iPhone by syncing from a computer can’t be deleted in Photos on the phone. If the Trash button is gray, stop syncing photos from the computer first.
Get the space back now
Merged and deleted photos stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days, and they still take up space there. To free it right away: in Photos, tap Collections, scroll to Recently Deleted under Utilities, tap View Album and unlock it with Face ID, tap Select, then the More button and Delete All. After that, the photos can’t be recovered.
If you use iCloud Photos, merging and deleting apply to all your devices, so check that you keep the right copy.
What the Duplicates album doesn’t find
Duplicates are copies of the same photo: saved twice, saved again from a chat, or imported twice. Ten shots of the same sunset taken seconds apart are different photos, so they don’t show up there. Neither do old screenshots, blurry shots or videos that take up gigabytes.
That’s the part Rydop does, on your iPhone:
- Similar photos: shots taken seconds or minutes apart are grouped, and the sharpest, best-lit one is marked to keep.
- Duplicates across the whole library, including smaller copies saved from chats. The largest copy is kept.
- Screenshots (oldest first), large videos (biggest first) and blurry photos, each in its own list.
- Favorites and edited photos are never picked for you, and nothing is deleted until you tap Delete and iOS asks you to confirm.
Rydop is free, with no ads and no subscription. It has no account and uploads nothing: it checks your photos on the iPhone with Apple’s own tools, and its App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected”.