Gemini Photos Frees Up iPhone Storage Space

make two of my favorite Mac desktop apps. The first is clean my Mac, which helps you clear out your system junk and big files taking up space on your hard drive. I find this very handy. It also helps you completely uninstalled programs that you no longer want on your computer, which I really like, so there's no fragments left behind. The other app they have is called Gemini two.

This one is really great because it goes through all of your desktop files or a folder or wherever and helps you find all of the duplicate files so you can clean them out now. One day I plan to put my entire photo collection in Gemini two, but I need to get it all in one place first. I have all kinds of backups on all different drives. But once I consolidate them. I can't wait to run it through Gemini two. All right, Now back to Gemini Photos

for iPhone. When you open the app, it scans your entire photo library and then groups your pictures into several categories similar and then clutter. Similar shows you all the photos that you've taken multiple snapshots of. Like when I take pictures of my kids, I basically just take a bunch of pictures and hope that one might come out looking good. Same thing with any groups of people. But I don't want to delete any of them. I can't bear to let go of some of these pictures because

I'm like, wait, which one is better. Gemini will show you each set of duplicates in a group, and they will suggest which one you should keep and the rest that you should trash. Now, this isn't always perfect. You can still go through and look at each individual set of pictures, and I recommend that you do that, and you can see which one that the Gemini computer flags as the best result, as they call it. For instance, I took two pictures of the outside of a restaurant

that we go to. One included my kids standing in front of it, the other did not Gemini suggested that I get rid of the photo without my kidnip, Okay, that's pretty smart. Then I took three pictures of my kid petting some dogs, and Gemini did identify what I would say is the best one where all three of the dogs were looking right at my child, as opposed to the other two pictures that just had the dogs

sort of looking off to the side. Then in another group of photos, I was sitting at a desk up at Leo Laporte's desk, actually at twit and Gemini did select the one that I would say is the best, which features my best smile. Now you don't have to manually go through and double check all of Gemini's work. You can tap once and delete all the similar pictures, but you probably want to review the computer's work just to be sure it's on the same wavelength that you are.

When it comes to clutter. That's a bit more straightforward. You get three subsections, blurred notes and screenshots. Notes had some pictures of receipts that I took, plus a PDF that I scanned, while screenshots has well all the screenshots that I took. You can scroll through each identified picture and hit ignore for the ones that you want to keep, then with one more tap, you can delete the rest, and that process is pretty easy and much faster than

the similar picks. Because this is kind of cut and dry. There's one more feature on Gemini Photos, and you have to be careful with this one, but it can come in handy for certain use case scenarios. There's an option in the settings to let you delete your entire photo library at once, that is, all the photos on your iPhone at the same time. iPhone doesn't even have this option because it's so drastic. You have to confirm with your Touch ID or password before Gemini Photos will even proceed.

So why would you need to do this? Well, there could be a case. Let's say you just backed up all your photos to your computer or an external flash drive or another photos app like Flicker or Google Photos, and you want to free up as much space on your phone as possible. The delete photo library option can help, but again, please proceed here with caution. Overall, Gemini Photos is a handy tool to have on your iPhone, a fast and easy way to free up some valuable space

on your device, especially if you're running low. But things yet kind of complicated. If you store your photo collection in multiple places, like in Google Photos or with iCloud, Gemini is best for a quick cleanup of the stuff that's stored on your phone and not necessarily your best photo collection management solution. Gemini Photos is free for three days. After that, it's two dollars a month, or twelve dollars for the year, or your best value fifteen dollars for

unlimited access forever. Also keep in mind the paid features only apply to the similar photos function. You can actually use the clutter feature, which finds those blurred screenshots and text pictures, for free, but it is kind of confusing because they make you sign up for the subscription right when you first open the app, but you can then cancel that within three days and still retain the free features,

so just be aware of that. Thanks so much for listening to the podcast, and I would love it if you would rate and review it in the Apple Podcasts app or whatever app you use to listen to it. That way more people discover it. I'm Rich Jamiy. You can find a link to Gemini Photos on my website. Just go to richon tech dot T I'll talk to you real soon.