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How to delete duplicate photos on iPhone/iPad (Exact/Similar images)

Method#1 - Duplicate Photo Remover/Cleaner APP for iOS Free

Duckling Cleaner would be the one that we recommend for removing duplicate photos on iphone. You may search the name 'Duckling Cleaner' on your APP Store to download and use this free tool to remove duplicate photos on iphone for free. It has only two simple icon after clicking RUN to start the app: Clean Photos, and Storage. Here is what they mean.

Clean Photos - you may click this Clean Photos icon to remove duplicate images

Storage - the button to start cleaning your whole iphone including the photos

Step 1: Search and install the app in APP Store in your iphone, and run it

Step 2: Touch the 'Clean Photos' button and hold to scroll down to get it started

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Step 3: Tab the 'Similar Photos' on top navi, click 'Select all' and then click 'Clean photo' that would help remove duplicate photos on iphone. (Before cleaning, please scroll down to check all found photos to make sure you want to get them deleted.)duckling cleaner

Video - how to use Duckling Cleaner to remove duplicate images on iphone

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duckling-cleaner/id1273937778

Not working? If Duckling Cleaner does not work for your iphone photo cleaning, here is an option which provides more functions.

Option: Cleaner for iPhone

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cleaner-for-iphone/id1521796505

You may search this app in the APP Store to dig out whether it can work for your need.

More You May Need for iPhone Cleaning

Is your iPhone full up or mess with unknown trash files that stuffed the memory and storage?

Besides the duplicate photo deleting, you may use phone clean app to remove trash&temp files left by apps on your iphone. Here is a free app called Memory&Disk Scanner Pro that you may use for your phone cleaning to remove other trashes and dumps and get a lighter mobile.

Video - how to clean up iPhone with Memory&Disk Scanner Pro

Option#1 - Manually remove duplicate photos by yourself (100% free of charge)

Step 1: If there were not many images, you may double click the Photos icon on your iPhone to open the foldertab on photos tab on iphone

Step 2: Scroll down to the bottom, and click ALL Photos tab on the right bottom to show all imagestab all photos on iphone

Step 3: Click the SELECT tab on the top right button that would let you select multiple images for deletion. tab select photos on iphone

Step 4: Click the duplicates images and delete them to the trash on iphone which will hold the photos in the trash for 30 days and would get permanently deleted after 30 days automatically. If you want to get them deleted immediately, you may clean the trash folder right now.

Pros: It's totally free of charge

Cons: It needs a lot of time and patience to select all duplicate images on the photo albumn

Our Advice: If there are not much duplicates in the photo albumn, you may manually select the duplicates and get them removed carefully. If there were thusands of images that contains duplicates among them, you may try some app to remove the duplicate photos.

Option#2 - App to remove duplicate photos after moving all photos to Apple/Windows pc after syncing from iPhone

iPhone photos can be all moved to an Apple computer or Windows computer and get the duplicates removed easily.

Apple Mac Computer

Firstly we would show you how to remove the duplicate photos on MAC after syncing the images from iphone, or after you transfer all iphone images to apple pc.

Step 1: Transfer photos from iPhone to MAC by moving all files from iphone to mac or with the icloud service and get it loaded to MAC with your account.

Step 2: When all photos are now in the MAC pc, it's easy now since there are free tools do the job. Download free tool DupeGuru to MAC and get it installed.

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Step 3: Set duplicate image filtering parameters in the software for finding duplicates.

  • 1, Set the application Mode to be PICTURE
  • 2, Set Scan Type to - Contents
  • 3, Set folder to scan duplicates by selecting your iphone photo album folder
  • 4, Press Scan button to get started the scanning
  • 5, Select duplicates to get them removed

Step 4: Once you have the duplicates removed, you may delete all iphone photos on your iphone, and then sync or transfer all photos to the iphone after the duplicates removed.

Must watch video - how to remove duplicate photos on MAC (paid utility involved)

Windows PC to Remove Duplicate Photos After Transfer/Sync

And then we would show you how to get the duplicate photos removed on a Windows pc after copying all photo from iphone to Windows with freeware DupeGuru too since this free tool works on Windows computers too.

Step 1: Copy/Transfer all the photos from your iPhone to Windows pc by copying, pasting or syncing it to icloud account and downloaded it to Windows pc

Step 2: Download DupeGuru to a Windows computer, install it, and set the same parameter as we introduced previously and it can be found in the following imageclean duplicate files on mac

Step 3: Scan duplicate photos, and select the duplicate photos and get them removed on Windows pc

Step 4: Delete all images on iphone and transfer all photos from Windows pc to iphone via icloud service or just transfer them to phone via copying and pasting

9 Best iPhone/iPad Duplicate Photo Finder&Cleaners

Here is a list of best duplicate photo delete apps for iphone and ipad that you may consider for deleting your duplicate images on iphone/ipad.

  • Duckling Cleaner
  • Cleaner for iPhone
  • Remo Duplicate Photos Remover
  • Slidebox
  • Smart Cleaner
  • Cleen Photos
  • Photo Cleaner
  • Cleanup
  • Remove Master for Storage Cleaner

#1 Duckling Cleaner - As the first iphone app to delete duplicate photos, we have already mentioned in the previous content, it is Duckling Cleaner that works for iphone for free

#2 Cleaner for iPhone - Duplicate photo remover for iphone

#3 Remo Duplicate Photos Remover - iphone app to remove duplicate photos with high user rate on app store that you may try it free to check out whether it work for you.

APP information on app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/remo-duplicate-photos-remover/id1066797785

Video - how to use Remo Dupicate Photo Remover

#4 Slidebox - app to remove duplicate photos for iphone which comes super easy to orgnize your photos on you iphone.

Video - how to use Slidebox Photo Orgnizer

Also watch this video: How to delete duplicate photos videos to free up space for iphone ipad ipod

 

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