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Q: Cannot delete iPhone photos

The delete instructions do not work for some of my iPhone photos, photos which I have taken with the iPhone....they can be deleted from my Mac, from my wife's phone, and from our iPad Air but when I select them on my phone the trash icon becomes greyed out and unavailable, can't find any answer to this from Apple's user guide or FAQs, any ideas?  I've tried turning off iCloud sharing on the phone, turning it back on, makes no difference.

iPhone 5, iOS 7.1.1

Posted on May 10, 2014 7:34 PM

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  • by randers4,

    randers4 randers4 May 10, 2014 7:50 PM in response to RBBNZ
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    May 10, 2014 7:50 PM in response to RBBNZ

    If these photos were synced to phone from your computer using iTunes, you can't delete them on your phone.  They can only be removed by syncing them off again (deselecting them on the Photos tab of your iTunes sync settings and syncing).