Similar photos

The similar photos view groups photos that are alike, from loosely (they show the same thing) to strictly (the same shot, the same file). Pick how alike with a slider, review the groups, and share, delete or re-sync what you do not need. Only the last stop can prove a duplicate, which is why the app calls the whole view similar photos.

• Tap Similar photos in the row above the grid. The grid then shows the groups one after another, each under a heading that says what its photos share, with a slider above them.
• Refreshing (swipe down, the reload icon, a finished sync) keeps the view, on the same slider stop.
• You leave it with the same icon again, a typed search, or a filter.
• What you typed and the filters you have on narrow the groups, so the view tells you about the results on screen rather than the whole library.

The slider has stops from loose to strict, with the name of the kind under it. The view of the whole library starts at Same first 2 words, same camera.

The words and the description are what Opensolr read the photo into, never your own tags or wording, so editing a photo does not move it between groups. An index still on an older configuration cannot do this yet; the app then says the index needs a reset for this version (see a new index configuration).

• A kind shared by more than 50 photos is left out: at that size it describes a subject, not a set of copies.
• Groups are never joined, so one group can never swallow your whole library. A photo is shown in the first group it belongs to.
• Each stop asks your index once, a moment after the slider settles. Going back to a stop you saw is answered from the search cache. Nothing goes to Opensolr's AI services.

Select 1 of each group, under the slider, ticks one photo of every group, the last of each, and leaves the first unticked, so every group keeps at least one photo. It only selects; review the ticks, change them if you like, then use the selection bar:

• Share the ticked photos.
• Del them, after the app's warning: they go from every phone, your index and your backup (see deleting).
• Re-sync N to have them read again by Opensolr.