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How to merge duplicate photos and videos on iPhone

by Stacey Butler

The Photos app identifies duplicate photos and videos in your photo library in the Duplicates collection. You can merge duplicate photos and videos to save space and clean up your library. It’s in Utilities. Got no duplicates? Then the Duplicates collection doesn’t appear.

The Duplicates screen, showing duplicate photos next to each other. On the right side of the screen are Merge buttons to merge each pair of duplicate photos.

  1. Start the Photos app on your iPhone.
  2. Tap Collections.
  3. Tap Utilities and tap Duplicates.
  4. Tap Merge to combine a set of duplicates and tap Merge [number] Items.

The Duplicates collection doesn’t appear if there aren’t any duplicate photos or videos in your library.

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