AI Cleanup: Clean Up Storage

AI Cleanup helps you review and clean up your photo library without sending photos or recognized screenshot text to an app server.

Find duplicate and similar photos, compare two photos with linked zoom, preview large videos and screen recordings, and organize screenshots into useful categories. Search recognized screenshot text locally in Vietnamese or English. Quick review sessions cover up to 20 Similar groups, save progress and keep a local review history.

Create smaller photo and video copies on device. Preview the result before explicitly choosing to delete the original. Savings are estimates or file-size differences, not a promise of immediately freed device storage. Compare sampled video frames to help review potential similar videos; sampled matches are not proof of exact duplicates.

Nothing is deleted automatically. For photos and videos, you choose the items, then Photos asks for final confirmation. Deleted items follow Photos Recently Deleted behavior; recover them in Photos while they remain available.

Local Scan analyzes available on-device content. Full Scan and optional video verification can ask Photos to download iCloud assets after disclosure. A one-time App Store purchase includes all shipping features, with no subscription, in-app purchase, advertising or third-party tracking SDK.

Check exact duplicate files in a folder you choose through Files. Compare content hashes and open read-only previews; the selected provider may download files for reading. Files are not deleted or modified.

Find accessible contacts sharing a phone number or email, with full or limited Contacts access. Shared details do not prove cards belong to the same person. Quick Merge opens an editable result preview for one group with proposed primary details. You can change selected contacts and destination before confirming. Choose which cards to merge, with Select All/Deselect All and individual exclusions. Review source accounts and choose primary details. The verified iPhone Contacts default is preselected as the destination; you can change it before previewing and confirming. Distinguish address books by accessible counts and up to three sample names/phone numbers loaded only when requested. An in-app guide explains choosing iCloud as your Contacts default. Verified contacts can be merged across accounts. Update a selected source already in the destination or create a new card there; other selected sources, including primary sources in other accounts, are deleted. Groups outside the destination do not transfer. Unverified sources or unavailable accounts prevent merging. A protected local vCard of readable fields is saved before changes; export or delete copies in Merge Backups. Notes on deleted cards cannot be copied or backed up: save important Notes separately in Contacts before merging. Only Notes on an actual retained destination card stay untouched. Recovery is manual vCard import, may recreate duplicates and is not automatic undo. Changes may sync through your Contacts account.