Selects: Clean Up Your Photos

Your photo library is full of near-duplicates. You shot the same moment ten, twenty, thirty times to get one good frame, and every one of them is still sitting there.

Selects does the tedious first pass for you. It finds the runs of near-identical shots and pre-picks the keepers: the sharpest, plus the one that is genuinely different so you don't lose the moment. Everything else is suggested for clearing. You glance, correct anything with a tap, and move on. Minutes, not an afternoon.

THREE WAYS TO TIDY
- Curate: open a month, an album or a range of dates. Selects groups each photoshoot with the keepers already marked, and lists that stretch's videos and screenshots too. Or browse everything in a plain grid.
- Tidy up: your whole library, sorted into lists. First what's worth a look: large videos, exact copies, bursts, and compressed videos whose original is still there. Then lists for any time: all screenshots, screen recordings, all videos, blurry and low-light shots, and utility photos like receipts and signs.
- Swipe: one photo at a time. Left to set it aside, right to keep it, up to add it to Favorites. Swipe through a month, an album, just videos or screenshots, or any list in Tidy up.
Whatever you mark, wherever you mark it, waits in one place until you confirm.

A BIG VIDEO DOESN'T HAVE TO GO
Selects makes a smaller copy of a long clip and leaves your original exactly as it was. You get a real preview first, encoded from the hardest seconds of that video, so you judge the quality yourself instead of trusting a number. Videos stored in iCloud work too: Selects downloads the original first. Both then sit in your library until you decide: the room comes back when you remove the original, which is its own confirmed step. The smaller copy of an HDR video is still HDR. Slo-mo videos stay slow motion: the copy keeps their own frame rate, and if you moved the slow part in Photos, it uses the standard one. Cinematic and spatial videos are never compressed, because…