If you're like me, you've not given a lot of thought to curating your iPhone photo library. In fact, whenever I look at mine I'm horrified at how many duplicates images, blurry captures, and screenshots that I no longer need that I have filling up my precious storage space.
I could go through my photos manually and sort them out, but let's face it, if that was going to happen, it would have already happened.
Fortunately, there's an app that will do all the hard work for me.
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Enter Gemini Photos[2] by MacPaw. The app uses what MacPaw describes as "a smart machine learning algorithm" to scan the iPhone photo library for duplicate photos, blurred photos, screenshots, and photos of text such as documents, receipts and whiteboard notes. Where a number of similar photos exist, the app finds what it considers to be the best capture in the set to allow the user a quick way of removing the rest.
The app works both locally on the iPhone's storage space and also on the user's iCloud Library, helping to clear space there too.
So, does it work? In a word, yes. But you do have to be a little careful.
One place that Gemini Photos really shines it its ability to identify similar photos. These may have been separate shots taken of the same thing, or burst taken using the Camera app. Either way, it's good to have a way to see them all that doesn't involve scrolling endlessly through the Photo library.