TripSweep
How to clean up old vacation photos and keep the best ones
A one-week trip easily produces a thousand photos and videos, and most of them are near-copies of a few good shots. Sorting them while the trip is fresh is easy; sorting them a year later is a chore. This method works for both.
1. Work trip by trip
A library of 20,000 photos is overwhelming; one trip of 800 photos is not. Group your photos by trip using their date and location, and handle one trip at a time, starting with the heaviest.
2. Remove the near-identical shots first
Most of a trip is variations of the same scene. For every group, keep the sharpest one with the best expressions and delete the others. This alone often halves the size of a trip.
3. Review the leftovers: screenshots, blurry photos, big videos
Tickets, maps, accidental photos and long videos you never rewatch are easy to remove once they are listed together.
4. Back up or share before you delete
Export the keeper photos to your computer or share them with the friends who were there. Only then delete the trip from your phone. Deletions go to “Recently Deleted”, which gives you 30 days to change your mind.
5. Photos without GPS
Photos taken with location off or saved from messages have no place. Group them by event and month instead, so they get sorted too.
How TripSweep helps
TripSweep groups your photos and videos by trip (or by event and month when there is no GPS), shows how many gigabytes of similar photos each trip contains, suggests the best shot of each group and exports or shares a whole trip. You can exclude home and work so daily life doesn't look like a trip. Everything runs on your iPhone, offline.
To do the same on a big screen, PhotoCull shows your iPhone's trips on a Mac or Windows PC.