Tapping on this will show a list of all of your contacts that have duplicates. If you have any duplicates in your address book, a Duplicates Found entry will appear near the top, between your “My Card” entry and your first contact. Thankfully, Apple has polished up the iOS 16 Contacts app in several ways, including the ability to view and merge duplicate contacts. The Contacts app on macOS has offered the ability to manage duplicate contacts for years, but sadly its iPhone and iPad counterpart has been sorely lacking in that area.

However, from my testing, it seems to work well on a photo-by-photo basis.

If you’re running the iOS 16 beta right now, I wouldn’t recommend turning this feature loose on your Photo Library yet, as there’s a high potential for bugs at this point. The iOS 16 Photos app will make sure that the best image is kept from each set, with all of its important data and placements applied to that photo. In other words, you won’t need to worry about losing data when cleaning up duplicates or chasing down the albums your photos are in to make sure that pictures don’t go missing from them. The same applies to any albums that your images might have been saved in. The highest-quality image will be preserved, but Apple will also ensure the selected photo retains the combined metadata such as keywords and captions.įurther, if one photo in the group is marked as a favorite, that will be applied to whichever photo is kept. Technically speaking, this does remove all but one of the duplicates, but it does so intelligently. Instead of prompting you to delete duplicate photos, Apple offers a “Merge” button beside each group. Further, Apple’s method for handling duplicates appears to be much safer and more user-friendly than many third-party apps I’ve worked with over the years. While several third-party developers have offered Mac apps to clean up duplicates for years, there have never been any that we trusted to handle this on the iPhone or iPad. You can tap on any photo to open it up for a more detailed look and swipe between others in the same duplicate group to compare.

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