Remove duplicate photos mac monterey

In previous versions of macOS, relying on your Mac to automatically track down duplicate photos in your Photo Library wasn't an option, and if you wanted to purge your library of duplicates you had to download a third-party app.

In macOS Ventura, however, that's no longer the case, because the Photos app will now automatically detect any duplicates in your library and collate them together for your inspection.

Finding duplicates is easy, since Apple has added a new Duplicates album to the ‌‌Photos‌‌ app.

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You can find it in the ‌Photos‌ sidebar, just note that the album only appears if you do indeed have duplicate images in your library.

Inside the Duplicates album are any duplicates listed in chronological order, with a Merge option beside each set.

You can click this button to merge duplicate sets into an individual photo. Even if you take two photos together that are very similar, Apple's merging feature will intelligently keep the highest detail and the most metadata, creating the best possible

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