There has been a long history of developers inventing and delivering enhancements and services for the Mac that Apple left out. Then, not long after these developers have sunk their money into expensive houses and car loans, Apple comes along with the same feature “incorporated” into the latest OS. Affectively killing the developers golden goose.
Now I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a golden goose, but we did offer a photo duplication service for a little while that has now been rendered lifeless following the release of MacOS Ventura and iOS16.
These modern operating systems now offer photo duplicate detection and while this is annoying from a business perspective, I do see it as a welcomed addition.
If you are running MacOS Ventura all you need to do is open the Photos app and in the left hand side bar you see a Duplicates Album.
Opening this album will reveal all the photos that have been deemed “duplicates” and you are offered the chance to merge all the copies of that photo into one single file.
Merging analyses the photo and makes sure that the photo with best resolution and the most metadata (date, time location) is the photo left in your library. It’s fast and its reliable and it gobbles up a bloated library in a matter of moments.
If, like me, you cannot run Ventura you can try this on your iPad or iPhone if its running iOS16. The process is the same and it is particularly useful if you are using iCloud Photos because all your tidying up is dutifully applied to all your libraries.
One thing to keep in mind is that if there are no duplicates in your library the album isn’t even offered so if its not there this mean you don’t have any duplicates.
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