Speaker 1: Clean up your camera roll and free up space on
Speaker 1: your iPhone. What's going on on rich Demiro? This is
Speaker 1: Rich on tech Daily. A new app called Gemini Photos
Speaker 1: can help you clean up all of the photos on
Speaker 1: your iPhone. The app uses artificial intelligence and machine learning
Speaker 1: to sort through your pictures and identify the blurry ones,
Speaker 1: similar looking photos, and the photos that contain screenshots and
Speaker 1: any text. The company behind the app is MacPaw. They
Speaker 1: make two of my favorite Mac desktop apps. The first
Speaker 1: is clean my Mac, which helps you clear out your
Speaker 1: system junk and big files taking up space on your
Speaker 1: hard drive. I find this very handy. It also helps
Speaker 1: you completely uninstalled programs that you no longer want on
Speaker 1: your computer, which I really like, so there's no fragments
Speaker 1: left behind. The other app they have is called Gemini two.
Speaker 1: This one is really great because it goes through all
Speaker 1: of your desktop files or a folder or wherever and
Speaker 1: helps you find all of the duplicate files so you
Speaker 1: can clean them out now. One day I plan to
Speaker 1: put my entire photo collection in Gemini two, but I
Speaker 1: need to get it all in one place first. I
Speaker 1: have all kinds of backups on all different drives. But
Speaker 1: once I consolidate them. I can't wait to run it
Speaker 1: through Gemini two. All right, Now back to Gemini Photos
Speaker 1: for iPhone. When you open the app, it scans your
Speaker 1: entire photo library and then groups your pictures into several
Speaker 1: categories similar and then clutter. Similar shows you all the
Speaker 1: photos that you've taken multiple snapshots of. Like when I
Speaker 1: take pictures of my kids, I basically just take a
Speaker 1: bunch of pictures and hope that one might come out
Speaker 1: looking good. Same thing with any groups of people. But
Speaker 1: I don't want to delete any of them. I can't
Speaker 1: bear to let go of some of these pictures because
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, which one is better. Gemini will show
Speaker 1: you each set of duplicates in a group, and they
Speaker 1: will suggest which one you should keep and the rest
Speaker 1: that you should trash. Now, this isn't always perfect. You
Speaker 1: can still go through and look at each individual set
Speaker 1: of pictures, and I recommend that you do that, and
Speaker 1: you can see which one that the Gemini computer flags
Speaker 1: as the best result, as they call it. For instance,
Speaker 1: I took two pictures of the outside of a restaurant
Speaker 1: that we go to. One included my kids standing in
Speaker 1: front of it, the other did not Gemini suggested that
Speaker 1: I get rid of the photo without my kidnip, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's pretty smart. Then I took three pictures of my
Speaker 1: kid petting some dogs, and Gemini did identify what I
Speaker 1: would say is the best one where all three of
Speaker 1: the dogs were looking right at my child, as opposed
Speaker 1: to the other two pictures that just had the dogs
Speaker 1: sort of looking off to the side. Then in another
Speaker 1: group of photos, I was sitting at a desk up
Speaker 1: at Leo Laporte's desk, actually at twit and Gemini did
Speaker 1: select the one that I would say is the best,
Speaker 1: which features my best smile. Now you don't have to
Speaker 1: manually go through and double check all of Gemini's work.
Speaker 1: You can tap once and delete all the similar pictures,
Speaker 1: but you probably want to review the computer's work just
Speaker 1: to be sure it's on the same wavelength that you are.
Speaker 1: When it comes to clutter. That's a bit more straightforward.
Speaker 1: You get three subsections, blurred notes and screenshots. Notes had
Speaker 1: some pictures of receipts that I took, plus a PDF
Speaker 1: that I scanned, while screenshots has well all the screenshots
Speaker 1: that I took. You can scroll through each identified picture
Speaker 1: and hit ignore for the ones that you want to keep,
Speaker 1: then with one more tap, you can delete the rest,
Speaker 1: and that process is pretty easy and much faster than
Speaker 1: the similar picks. Because this is kind of cut and dry.
Speaker 1: There's one more feature on Gemini Photos, and you have
Speaker 1: to be careful with this one, but it can come
Speaker 1: in handy for certain use case scenarios. There's an option
Speaker 1: in the settings to let you delete your entire photo
Speaker 1: library at once, that is, all the photos on your
Speaker 1: iPhone at the same time. iPhone doesn't even have this
Speaker 1: option because it's so drastic. You have to confirm with
Speaker 1: your Touch ID or password before Gemini Photos will even proceed.
Speaker 1: So why would you need to do this? Well, there
Speaker 1: could be a case. Let's say you just backed up
Speaker 1: all your photos to your computer or an external flash
Speaker 1: drive or another photos app like Flicker or Google Photos,
Speaker 1: and you want to free up as much space on
Speaker 1: your phone as possible. The delete photo library option can help,
Speaker 1: but again, please proceed here with caution. Overall, Gemini Photos
Speaker 1: is a handy tool to have on your iPhone, a
Speaker 1: fast and easy way to free up some valuable space
Speaker 1: on your device, especially if you're running low. But things
Speaker 1: yet kind of complicated. If you store your photo collection
Speaker 1: in multiple places, like in Google Photos or with iCloud,
Speaker 1: Gemini is best for a quick cleanup of the stuff
Speaker 1: that's stored on your phone and not necessarily your best
Speaker 1: photo collection management solution. Gemini Photos is free for three days.
Speaker 1: After that, it's two dollars a month, or twelve dollars
Speaker 1: for the year, or your best value fifteen dollars for
Speaker 1: unlimited access forever. Also keep in mind the paid features
Speaker 1: only apply to the similar photos function. You can actually
Speaker 1: use the clutter feature, which finds those blurred screenshots and
Speaker 1: text pictures, for free, but it is kind of confusing
Speaker 1: because they make you sign up for the subscription right
Speaker 1: when you first open the app, but you can then
Speaker 1: cancel that within three days and still retain the free features,
Speaker 1: so just be aware of that. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast, and I would love it if
Speaker 1: you would rate and review it in the Apple Podcasts
Speaker 1: app or whatever app you use to listen to it.
Speaker 1: That way more people discover it. I'm Rich Jamiy. You
Speaker 1: can find a link to Gemini Photos on my website.
Speaker 1: Just go to richon tech dot T I'll talk to
Speaker 1: you real soon.