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I made Tinder for my camera roll

A Shortcut I made in 2021 offers one random photo at a time for deletion. Favourites have immunity.

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Hands sort photographs above a smartphone: a crowned landscape stays in the pile while other pictures fall into a red basket.

My camera roll was full of memes and saved images mixed in with actual photographs. The storage subscription kept charging. A grand clear-out remained a future project.

In 2021 I made a Shortcut that picks a random photo and asks whether to delete it. Keep it or remove it. Next. Continue until you have had enough.1

It felt like Tinder with myself. No elaborate classification: one image, one decision. Favourites were excluded. They had immunity.

I set it to run before bed, hoping the library would be cleaner after six months. Not the most efficient method, but a pleasant one.

Here are the original Shortcut and a short explanation of how I used it.

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  1. The announcement, 2021. ↩

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My camera roll was full of memes and saved images mixed in with actual photographs. The storage subscription kept charging. A grand clear-out remained a future project.

In 2021 I made a Shortcut that picks a random photo and asks whether to delete it. Keep it or remove it. Next. Continue until you have had enough.[^post]

It felt like Tinder with myself. No elaborate classification: one image, one decision. Favourites were excluded. They had immunity.

I set it to run before bed, hoping the library would be cleaner after six months. Not the most efficient method, but a pleasant one.

Here are [the original Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/38b69b92744c46c18c880cbec5f1990d) and [a short explanation of how I used it](https://t.me/Shipao/1489).

[^post]: [The announcement, 2021](https://t.me/Shipao/1489).

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