WEBVTT - Gemini Photos Frees Up iPhone Storage Space

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<v Speaker 1>Clean up your camera roll and free up space on

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<v Speaker 1>your iPhone. What's going on on rich Demiro? This is

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<v Speaker 1>Rich on tech Daily. A new app called Gemini Photos

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<v Speaker 1>can help you clean up all of the photos on

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<v Speaker 1>your iPhone. The app uses artificial intelligence and machine learning

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<v Speaker 1>to sort through your pictures and identify the blurry ones,

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<v Speaker 1>similar looking photos, and the photos that contain screenshots and

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<v Speaker 1>any text. The company behind the app is MacPaw. They

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<v Speaker 1>make two of my favorite Mac desktop apps. The first

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<v Speaker 1>is clean my Mac, which helps you clear out your

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<v Speaker 1>system junk and big files taking up space on your

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<v Speaker 1>hard drive. I find this very handy. It also helps

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<v Speaker 1>you completely uninstalled programs that you no longer want on

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<v Speaker 1>your computer, which I really like, so there's no fragments

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<v Speaker 1>left behind. The other app they have is called Gemini two.

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<v Speaker 1>This one is really great because it goes through all

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<v Speaker 1>of your desktop files or a folder or wherever and

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<v Speaker 1>helps you find all of the duplicate files so you

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<v Speaker 1>can clean them out now. One day I plan to

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<v Speaker 1>put my entire photo collection in Gemini two, but I

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<v Speaker 1>need to get it all in one place first. I

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<v Speaker 1>have all kinds of backups on all different drives. But

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<v Speaker 1>once I consolidate them. I can't wait to run it

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<v Speaker 1>through Gemini two. All right, Now back to Gemini Photos

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<v Speaker 1>for iPhone. When you open the app, it scans your

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<v Speaker 1>entire photo library and then groups your pictures into several

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<v Speaker 1>categories similar and then clutter. Similar shows you all the

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<v Speaker 1>photos that you've taken multiple snapshots of. Like when I

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<v Speaker 1>take pictures of my kids, I basically just take a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of pictures and hope that one might come out

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<v Speaker 1>looking good. Same thing with any groups of people. But

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to delete any of them. I can't

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<v Speaker 1>bear to let go of some of these pictures because

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, wait, which one is better. Gemini will show

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<v Speaker 1>you each set of duplicates in a group, and they

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<v Speaker 1>will suggest which one you should keep and the rest

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<v Speaker 1>that you should trash. Now, this isn't always perfect. You

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<v Speaker 1>can still go through and look at each individual set

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<v Speaker 1>of pictures, and I recommend that you do that, and

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<v Speaker 1>you can see which one that the Gemini computer flags

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<v Speaker 1>as the best result, as they call it. For instance,

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<v Speaker 1>I took two pictures of the outside of a restaurant

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<v Speaker 1>that we go to. One included my kids standing in

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<v Speaker 1>front of it, the other did not Gemini suggested that

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<v Speaker 1>I get rid of the photo without my kidnip, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>that's pretty smart. Then I took three pictures of my

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<v Speaker 1>kid petting some dogs, and Gemini did identify what I

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<v Speaker 1>would say is the best one where all three of

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<v Speaker 1>the dogs were looking right at my child, as opposed

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<v Speaker 1>to the other two pictures that just had the dogs

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<v Speaker 1>sort of looking off to the side. Then in another

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<v Speaker 1>group of photos, I was sitting at a desk up

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<v Speaker 1>at Leo Laporte's desk, actually at twit and Gemini did

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<v Speaker 1>select the one that I would say is the best,

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<v Speaker 1>which features my best smile. Now you don't have to

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<v Speaker 1>manually go through and double check all of Gemini's work.

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<v Speaker 1>You can tap once and delete all the similar pictures,

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<v Speaker 1>but you probably want to review the computer's work just

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<v Speaker 1>to be sure it's on the same wavelength that you are.

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<v Speaker 1>When it comes to clutter. That's a bit more straightforward.

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<v Speaker 1>You get three subsections, blurred notes and screenshots. Notes had

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<v Speaker 1>some pictures of receipts that I took, plus a PDF

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<v Speaker 1>that I scanned, while screenshots has well all the screenshots

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<v Speaker 1>that I took. You can scroll through each identified picture

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<v Speaker 1>and hit ignore for the ones that you want to keep,

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<v Speaker 1>then with one more tap, you can delete the rest,

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<v Speaker 1>and that process is pretty easy and much faster than

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<v Speaker 1>the similar picks. Because this is kind of cut and dry.

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<v Speaker 1>There's one more feature on Gemini Photos, and you have

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<v Speaker 1>to be careful with this one, but it can come

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<v Speaker 1>in handy for certain use case scenarios. There's an option

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<v Speaker 1>in the settings to let you delete your entire photo

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<v Speaker 1>library at once, that is, all the photos on your

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<v Speaker 1>iPhone at the same time. iPhone doesn't even have this

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<v Speaker 1>option because it's so drastic. You have to confirm with

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<v Speaker 1>your Touch ID or password before Gemini Photos will even proceed.

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<v Speaker 1>So why would you need to do this? Well, there

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<v Speaker 1>could be a case. Let's say you just backed up

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<v Speaker 1>all your photos to your computer or an external flash

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<v Speaker 1>drive or another photos app like Flicker or Google Photos,

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<v Speaker 1>and you want to free up as much space on

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<v Speaker 1>your phone as possible. The delete photo library option can help,

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<v Speaker 1>but again, please proceed here with caution. Overall, Gemini Photos

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<v Speaker 1>is a handy tool to have on your iPhone, a

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<v Speaker 1>fast and easy way to free up some valuable space

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<v Speaker 1>on your device, especially if you're running low. But things

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<v Speaker 1>yet kind of complicated. If you store your photo collection

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<v Speaker 1>in multiple places, like in Google Photos or with iCloud,

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<v Speaker 1>Gemini is best for a quick cleanup of the stuff

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<v Speaker 1>that's stored on your phone and not necessarily your best

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<v Speaker 1>photo collection management solution. Gemini Photos is free for three days.

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<v Speaker 1>After that, it's two dollars a month, or twelve dollars

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<v Speaker 1>for the year, or your best value fifteen dollars for

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<v Speaker 1>unlimited access forever. Also keep in mind the paid features

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<v Speaker 1>only apply to the similar photos function. You can actually

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<v Speaker 1>use the clutter feature, which finds those blurred screenshots and

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<v Speaker 1>text pictures, for free, but it is kind of confusing

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<v Speaker 1>because they make you sign up for the subscription right

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<v Speaker 1>when you first open the app, but you can then

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<v Speaker 1>cancel that within three days and still retain the free features,

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<v Speaker 1>so just be aware of that. Thanks so much for

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<v Speaker 1>listening to the podcast, and I would love it if

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<v Speaker 1>you would rate and review it in the Apple Podcasts

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<v Speaker 1>That way more people discover it. I'm Rich Jamiy. You

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<v Speaker 1>can find a link to Gemini Photos on my website.

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<v Speaker 1>Just go to richon tech dot T I'll talk to

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<v Speaker 1>you real soon.