The new Google Photos detect duplicates when you are uploading photos to your account. Google Photos app can scan your photo library and offer you to delete similar photos for you to free up a storage space on your phone.
Google Photos has a feature that recognizes duplicate images and doesn’t save them. The feature is supposed to work even with files that are named differently and that are located in different folders. However, Google Photos can’t always detect near duplicates and will upload them.
This of course begs the query “Does Google backup have identical duplicate detection?”
Google Photos Backup Has Identical Duplicate Detection Google Photos has identical duplicate detection, which means that if you have uploaded photos to Google Photos already, it will not re-upload the same photo.
How to find duplicate photos&selfies?
Duplicate and identical-looking photos & selfies are such a nightmare. They tend to get piled up with time, clutter your photo library and consume up to GBs of disk space in your PC. That’s why the fastest and safest solution to get rid of low quality or similar-looking images is to use a good duplicate photo finder software.
You should be asking “How do I get rid of duplicate photos on my Android?”
For Android devices, click on your profile image in the upper right corner and select “Photo settings.” Scroll down to Google settings. Shift the toggle button beside “Google Drive” to the left. The duplicates will clear automatically. Google Photos may not be synced with Google Drive but will still save duplicates.
Some Reasons for Duplicate Photos The biggest cause of duplicate photos is that the user uploaded them twice. This is often because you didn’t realize the picture was already uploaded. You can also accidentally create copies when you edit a photo, and depending on the changes, the new file can be almost identical to the original.