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I don't know about you, but my phone -- a Pixel 9 Pro -- is chock-full of photos and videos I've taken over the years, and they take up a lot of space. Vast amounts of space. Star Trek Discovery-levels of space.

Every once in a while, I realize that it's time to clear out the cruft, which means going through the tedious task of deleting photos using the Google Photos app.

I've done this countless times, and it never fails to take much longer than I have any patience for.

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I recently discovered an app with one purpose: to make deleting photos and videos as efficient as possible. In fact, the Sponge app takes a rather Tinder-like approach to deleting photos: swipe left to delete, swipe right to keep.

But Sponge takes this one step further by letting you delete individual photos, photos by date, or photos by collection.