Jul 13, 2025 3:04 PM in response to Oldertyke
I no longer have an iPad running any version of iPadOS 17, but I'm pretty sure that both Recently Deleted and Duplicates were visible only when they had content. That is, Recently Deleted was not shown until items had been deleted (and not expired or permanently deleted) and Duplicates was not shown until a full duplicate detection pass had completed and found duplicate items.
I don't know where 17.7.8 on an iPad puts the Hide command. Sorry.