iPHONE 13 PRO Two Photos IMG and IMG E

Open your Camera App > click on the ^ at top center > swipe to the left on the menu at the bottom (above shutter) until you see the 3 circles > click on the 3 circles > what do you have selected there? If you have Original you will only get one photo, if you have anything else like Vivid the phone will retain two versions of the photo, the original + the edited version (this is a sticky setting, it will remain so until you change it). That is likely why you have two copies. See below:

And with my due respects the person you spoke with was mistaken. You are "editing" all your photos and retaining the edits and the original. Also Image Capture is an Apple product.

Hi artmat55,

Is this happening with just one photo? If so, have you been able to delete it? This guide may help: Delete photos or recover deleted ones in Photos on Mac - Apple Support You can choose your macOS version in the dropdown, if needed.

Take care.

Hey there artmat55,

This sounds interesting indeed! Do you also use iCloud Photos? We're asking to see if the photos are already showing on your Mac.

If not, let's have you follow the information included in this guide: Transfer images in Image Capture on Mac. We're starting here to make sure to follow every step included. When you get to "Select images, if you don’t want to import all of them", make sure to select a few images that you don't want to keep, then have them deleted after importing. We'd be curious to see if they duplicate once again.

If so, you'd want to check with Apple Support. They can check into this further with you to narrow down why you're getting the duplicates.

Take care.

I am on 15.4.1, iP13 Pro, M1 MBP Pro, and I don't get two versions in Image Capture. Those are clearly different pictures, look at the File Sizes.

I checked the settings for the camera and I don't see any settings that would trigger that. Here is the I.C. User Guide, does not show what you are seeing:

Transfer images in Image Capture on Mac - Apple Support

I have a "batcall" on this thread in the expert lounge; let's see if anyone responds. I still suspect a corrupted system and thus the Restore. A Restore from backup is no big deal with an encrypted backup but the corruption may not go away. The only way to test is to backup first (encrypted), then Restore as New, not from backup, then take a few pictures and test. If it goes away you got the reason, a PITA I know.

Hmm... I hesitate to mucky muck your "solution" but FWIW I have an iPhone 13 Pro and an M1 MBP running Monte and the "answer" above did not sound ok to me so I connected my iPhone to the Mac and opened Image Capture and I only see one copy of my pictures, not two. I have never seen two and I use Image Capture regularly.

Below are some pictures I took with my iPhone 13 Pro of my old iPhone 7 before it went in to Apple for a battery replacement and as you can see Image Capture only shows one version of each, not two. So IMO something is still not right with your phone. I would suggest a Forced Restart and if not a Restore from Backup.

This from one of the experts; will not solve your issue but may help explain it and FWIW I agree with him. Still waiting on others.

When you edit an image on an iOS device the edits are destructive and a new image is created with the "E" added to the filename, leaving the original image unaffected. So there will be two files resulting: Img_xxxx.jpg and Img_Exxx.jpg

AAE files were/are image sidecar files but as far as I know the AAE approach was discontinued after iOS 11. AAE's were how iPhones did nondestructive editing. The AAE's contained the edits & adjustments; the corresponding original image files remained unaffected. In this case there would be two files resulting: Img_xxxx.jpg and Img_xxxx.AAE

The OP's explanation of what the Apple Support rep may have said makes no sense. I have never seen this behavior with any of my iPhones or Macs ... and Image Capture is an Apple product.

One other comment.;.. You posted that "I thought my iPhone was creating multiple files and taking up space." That is correct, as you can see in Image Capture you have two files for each photo and they indeed are taking up space in your iPhone, about twice the space. The "Recents" on your phone will only display the edited version - one has no idea that the photo is edited unless you click on Edit and then see the red Revert on the lower right corner.

My iPhone 13 Pro shows two photos also, one labeled IMG_xxx.jpg and the other IMG._EXXX.jpg, sometime the E is on the end as such, IMG_XXXE.jpg. One is a square photo, larger size and the other is 16x9, smaller size. I have studied the photos, the 16x9 photo is exactly like the square photo with the bottom cut off to make the photo a 16x9, with small kb size. If I email the photo it emails the 16x9 photo with the E removed. Retrieved from icloud i get the smaller 16x9. Just to note, I access the photos using Windows10 with a usb cable, it give me access to the photos, then I copy them to my hard drive. After I use Photos on the iPhone to delete all the photos.

artmat55,

It would be best to reach out to Apple for further review of this issue.

Contact Apple Support

Regards.