1 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Clean up your camera roll and free up space on 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 1: your iPhone. What's going on on rich Demiro? This is 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: Rich on tech Daily. A new app called Gemini Photos 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: can help you clean up all of the photos on 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 1: your iPhone. The app uses artificial intelligence and machine learning 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: to sort through your pictures and identify the blurry ones, 7 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 1: similar looking photos, and the photos that contain screenshots and 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: any text. The company behind the app is MacPaw. They 9 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: make two of my favorite Mac desktop apps. The first 10 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: is clean my Mac, which helps you clear out your 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,919 Speaker 1: system junk and big files taking up space on your 12 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,480 Speaker 1: hard drive. I find this very handy. It also helps 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: you completely uninstalled programs that you no longer want on 14 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 1: your computer, which I really like, so there's no fragments 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: left behind. The other app they have is called Gemini two. 16 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: This one is really great because it goes through all 17 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: of your desktop files or a folder or wherever and 18 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: helps you find all of the duplicate files so you 19 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: can clean them out now. One day I plan to 20 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: put my entire photo collection in Gemini two, but I 21 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: need to get it all in one place first. I 22 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: have all kinds of backups on all different drives. But 23 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: once I consolidate them. I can't wait to run it 24 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: through Gemini two. All right, Now back to Gemini Photos 25 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: for iPhone. When you open the app, it scans your 26 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: entire photo library and then groups your pictures into several 27 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: categories similar and then clutter. Similar shows you all the 28 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: photos that you've taken multiple snapshots of. Like when I 29 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: take pictures of my kids, I basically just take a 30 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: bunch of pictures and hope that one might come out 31 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: looking good. Same thing with any groups of people. But 32 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 1: I don't want to delete any of them. I can't 33 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: bear to let go of some of these pictures because 34 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, which one is better. Gemini will show 35 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: you each set of duplicates in a group, and they 36 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: will suggest which one you should keep and the rest 37 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: that you should trash. Now, this isn't always perfect. You 38 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: can still go through and look at each individual set 39 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: of pictures, and I recommend that you do that, and 40 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: you can see which one that the Gemini computer flags 41 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: as the best result, as they call it. For instance, 42 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: I took two pictures of the outside of a restaurant 43 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: that we go to. One included my kids standing in 44 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: front of it, the other did not Gemini suggested that 45 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: I get rid of the photo without my kidnip, Okay, 46 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: that's pretty smart. Then I took three pictures of my 47 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: kid petting some dogs, and Gemini did identify what I 48 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 1: would say is the best one where all three of 49 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: the dogs were looking right at my child, as opposed 50 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: to the other two pictures that just had the dogs 51 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: sort of looking off to the side. Then in another 52 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: group of photos, I was sitting at a desk up 53 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: at Leo Laporte's desk, actually at twit and Gemini did 54 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: select the one that I would say is the best, 55 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: which features my best smile. Now you don't have to 56 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: manually go through and double check all of Gemini's work. 57 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: You can tap once and delete all the similar pictures, 58 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: but you probably want to review the computer's work just 59 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,399 Speaker 1: to be sure it's on the same wavelength that you are. 60 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: When it comes to clutter. That's a bit more straightforward. 61 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: You get three subsections, blurred notes and screenshots. Notes had 62 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: some pictures of receipts that I took, plus a PDF 63 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: that I scanned, while screenshots has well all the screenshots 64 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: that I took. You can scroll through each identified picture 65 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: and hit ignore for the ones that you want to keep, 66 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: then with one more tap, you can delete the rest, 67 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 1: and that process is pretty easy and much faster than 68 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: the similar picks. Because this is kind of cut and dry. 69 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: There's one more feature on Gemini Photos, and you have 70 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: to be careful with this one, but it can come 71 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: in handy for certain use case scenarios. There's an option 72 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: in the settings to let you delete your entire photo 73 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: library at once, that is, all the photos on your 74 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: iPhone at the same time. iPhone doesn't even have this 75 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: option because it's so drastic. You have to confirm with 76 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: your Touch ID or password before Gemini Photos will even proceed. 77 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: So why would you need to do this? Well, there 78 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: could be a case. Let's say you just backed up 79 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: all your photos to your computer or an external flash 80 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: drive or another photos app like Flicker or Google Photos, 81 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: and you want to free up as much space on 82 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: your phone as possible. The delete photo library option can help, 83 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: but again, please proceed here with caution. Overall, Gemini Photos 84 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: is a handy tool to have on your iPhone, a 85 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: fast and easy way to free up some valuable space 86 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: on your device, especially if you're running low. But things 87 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: yet kind of complicated. If you store your photo collection 88 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: in multiple places, like in Google Photos or with iCloud, 89 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: Gemini is best for a quick cleanup of the stuff 90 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: that's stored on your phone and not necessarily your best 91 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: photo collection management solution. Gemini Photos is free for three days. 92 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: After that, it's two dollars a month, or twelve dollars 93 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 1: for the year, or your best value fifteen dollars for 94 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: unlimited access forever. Also keep in mind the paid features 95 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: only apply to the similar photos function. You can actually 96 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: use the clutter feature, which finds those blurred screenshots and 97 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: text pictures, for free, but it is kind of confusing 98 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: because they make you sign up for the subscription right 99 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: when you first open the app, but you can then 100 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: cancel that within three days and still retain the free features, 101 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: so just be aware of that. Thanks so much for 102 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: listening to the podcast, and I would love it if 103 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: you would rate and review it in the Apple Podcasts 104 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 1: app or whatever app you use to listen to it. 105 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: That way more people discover it. I'm Rich Jamiy. You 106 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: can find a link to Gemini Photos on my website. 107 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: Just go to richon tech dot T I'll talk to 108 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 1: you real soon.