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How do I delete all duplicate photos? When I go to utilities/duplicates, it searches and finds 2400+ dups, and only lets me do it one at a time. Is there a way to delete all at once?
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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.0
Command-a (⌘-A) selects all.
Open the Duplicate view in Utilities, do ⌘-A to select all, and click on Merge. Like picture deletions, the removed pictures will go into Recently Deleted for 30 days in case you want to examine them and change your mind.
Are you sure you want to do all of them without looking at each one? I wouldn't. Some pictures may not be exact duplicates, but similar enough that Photos brings them to your attention. For instance, here is a duplicate pair of mine:
I like both of them, and one would be lost if I just selected all and blindly hit Merge. If I were you, I would look at each pair closely before deleting them.
Be careful.
Command-a (⌘-A) selects all.
Open the Duplicate view in Utilities, do ⌘-A to select all, and click on Merge. Like picture deletions, the removed pictures will go into Recently Deleted for 30 days in case you want to examine them and change your mind.
Are you sure you want to do all of them without looking at each one? I wouldn't. Some pictures may not be exact duplicates, but similar enough that Photos brings them to your attention. For instance, here is a duplicate pair of mine:
I like both of them, and one would be lost if I just selected all and blindly hit Merge. If I were you, I would look at each pair closely before deleting them.
Be careful.
Select all and click on Merge.
Thank you for the answer, however I think I titled the question wrong. The issue is on my MacBook Pro. It finds all of the dups, 2409 of them, but I can't seem to find a way to choose a simple "all" button. It will just do it one at a time.
This issue is on my MacBook Pro, not an iPhone.
That did it...thanks Richard.
Bulk deleting duplicate photos on iPhone
