diff --git a/server/src/config.ts b/server/src/config.ts
index 0f8a645005..4d1704c47f 100644
--- a/server/src/config.ts
+++ b/server/src/config.ts
@@ -256,8 +256,8 @@ export const defaults = Object.freeze<SystemConfig>({
       modelName: 'ViT-B-32__openai',
     },
     duplicateDetection: {
-      enabled: false,
-      maxDistance: 0.03,
+      enabled: true,
+      maxDistance: 0.0155,
     },
     facialRecognition: {
       enabled: true,
diff --git a/server/src/services/duplicate.service.spec.ts b/server/src/services/duplicate.service.spec.ts
index 79374ea7ae..cbde4ea777 100644
--- a/server/src/services/duplicate.service.spec.ts
+++ b/server/src/services/duplicate.service.spec.ts
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ describe(SearchService.name, () => {
       expect(searchMock.searchDuplicates).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
         assetId: assetStub.hasEmbedding.id,
         embedding: assetStub.hasEmbedding.smartSearch!.embedding,
-        maxDistance: 0.03,
+        maxDistance: 0.0155,
         type: assetStub.hasEmbedding.type,
         userIds: [assetStub.hasEmbedding.ownerId],
       });
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ describe(SearchService.name, () => {
       expect(searchMock.searchDuplicates).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
         assetId: assetStub.hasEmbedding.id,
         embedding: assetStub.hasEmbedding.smartSearch!.embedding,
-        maxDistance: 0.03,
+        maxDistance: 0.0155,
         type: assetStub.hasEmbedding.type,
         userIds: [assetStub.hasEmbedding.ownerId],
       });
diff --git a/server/src/services/server-info.service.spec.ts b/server/src/services/server-info.service.spec.ts
index 57beb165db..90d70b21ff 100644
--- a/server/src/services/server-info.service.spec.ts
+++ b/server/src/services/server-info.service.spec.ts
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ describe(ServerInfoService.name, () => {
     it('should respond the server features', async () => {
       await expect(sut.getFeatures()).resolves.toEqual({
         smartSearch: true,
-        duplicateDetection: false,
+        duplicateDetection: true,
         facialRecognition: true,
         map: true,
         reverseGeocoding: true,
diff --git a/server/src/services/system-config.service.spec.ts b/server/src/services/system-config.service.spec.ts
index 878916b0d2..281090cb3f 100644
--- a/server/src/services/system-config.service.spec.ts
+++ b/server/src/services/system-config.service.spec.ts
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ const updatedConfig = Object.freeze<SystemConfig>({
       modelName: 'ViT-B-32__openai',
     },
     duplicateDetection: {
-      enabled: false,
-      maxDistance: 0.03,
+      enabled: true,
+      maxDistance: 0.0155,
     },
     facialRecognition: {
       enabled: true,
diff --git a/web/src/lib/components/admin-page/settings/machine-learning-settings/machine-learning-settings.svelte b/web/src/lib/components/admin-page/settings/machine-learning-settings/machine-learning-settings.svelte
index cb6c2b480b..b570681774 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/components/admin-page/settings/machine-learning-settings/machine-learning-settings.svelte
+++ b/web/src/lib/components/admin-page/settings/machine-learning-settings/machine-learning-settings.svelte
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
             min={0.001}
             max={0.1}
             desc="Maximum distance between two images to consider them duplicates, ranging from 0.001-0.1. Higher values will detect more duplicates, but may result in false positives."
-            disabled={disabled || $featureFlags.duplicateDetection}
+            disabled={disabled || !$featureFlags.duplicateDetection}
             isEdited={config.machineLearning.duplicateDetection.maxDistance !==
               savedConfig.machineLearning.duplicateDetection.maxDistance}
           />