iCloud family remove duplicate photos across accounts

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iCloud family remove duplicate photos across accounts

Hello,

My wife and I are using iCloud family.

When we are sharing photo like with airdrop this create a "duplicate" in iCloud, 1 for her 1 for me.

In order to manage the iCloud storage and make it tight, I would like to automatically find the duplicate photo across the 2 users and have the possibility to remove them for 1 of the users.

Is it natively possible?

Is there any counter part app to help with this task?

thank you in advance for your help.

iPhone 14

Posted on May 12, 2023 6:07 AM

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Answer 1

muguy

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May 12, 2023 10:27 AM in response to Philburnin

This is not a feature as you are trying to search between two different libraries.

There may be a third-party app that offers a feature to search multiple libraries. I don't have a recommendation as the delivered photos has worked for my needs.

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jdh9846

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Sep 4, 2023 2:36 PM in response to Philburnin

Not that I've been able to find, and I've looked for years.

It's a bit of a dirty trick, forcing us to waste iCloud space (for which we get to pay, if we have any kind of large photo collection) by not letting there be one copy of shared photos which can be accessed by two systems.

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iCloud family remove duplicate photos across accounts

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