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How to clean up your camera roll fast

The reason camera-roll cleanups fail is scope: 12,000 photos is a project, but one month is a coffee break. Work month by month, make exactly one decision per photo (keep or toss), and let a bin catch your mistakes. That's the whole system.

The system: month by month, newest first

Sift groups your library into month decks with a progress bar on each. Recent months are the easiest (you remember the context), so start there and work backwards. Finish a month and it's marked done — dopamine included, confetti and all.

One decision per photo

In the deck, every photo gets a single verdict: left = toss, right = keep. No albums to file into, no star ratings, no 'deal with later' pile — later never comes. Videos and Live Photos play on tap so you can check before deciding. Undo is one tap away.

Make it a habit, not a project

After the backlog: new photos only accumulate in one month — the current one. Sixty free swipes a day is enough to keep pace with almost any shooting habit. A library that took years to clutter stays clean in minutes per month.

What about the photos you keep?

Everything you swipe right stays exactly where it was — Sift never moves, compresses or re-organises your keepers. It's a cleaner, not a librarian: the goal is a camera roll where everything left is something you're glad to see.

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