Deleting photos from iPad

This is not an answer to the question asked. Bear in mind that this threadvis swveral years old. The question is, if you have an older iPad, how so you delete just one or two photos from an album of many photos that have been put on the tablet via itunes. The answer is it cannot be done. This is a big flaw that can only be fixed by replacing an otherwise perfectly functional device with a new iPad

Pardon my spelling errors. I posted my reply via my iPhone. The purchase of which was one of my many mistakes.

@sheinemann - The question has been answered in this thread alone many times over. You cannot delete synced album photos on the iPad itself. You must delect them in iTunes on the computer from which they were originally synced - then sync again to remove them.

That is correct. I believe that I was the first, or one of the first to post that about 4 years ago. I sure wish that someone would close this thread.

Sorry, I misunderstood your answer. And I agree.

To delete photos from your ipad that have synced from your Pc, go to your PC and in your photos, create a new folder with nothing in it, call it a new name that you have not used before. Plug ipad into your computer and when devices comes up, click on the ipad and go to photos, take off sync photos, go to sync with folder , click on it and find new folder you created and tick on it. Sync with your ipad and the photos(from your PC) should all be deleted from your ipad. You can then return to your PC and create a new folder with only the photos in it that you want on your ipad (you can use these for your home screen or lock page) and follow the same again, ticking on the new folder that you now want. Sotxap

Afrailke, next time make sure that you:

1) understand the question; which is how do you delete a photo that has been loaded via iTunes without having to resync with iTunes.

2) are not giving an answer that has been provided 1,000 times elsewhere in the thread.

sheinemann, next time make sure you:

1) Read the post that you responded to and who that original response was to and understand the question that was asked.

2) Don't be a jerk

1) understand the question; which is how do you delete a photo that has been loaded via iTunes without having to resync with iTunes.

That is not the question at all as posted by Calvin LeBauve.

He asked, "How do you delete photo from the iPad?" Nothng more. There was no mention of not resyncing with iTunes.

And as has been stated "thousands" of times in this thread, you can delete all photos without resyncing but you cannot delete individual photos without resyncing.

When your device is connected, click on it's button in the upper right corner of iTunes

and you should see this.

You have to click: Sync....Then click 'selected items' -- then don't select anything

(like in photo here)

This is a bit frustrating to many, many people and Apple should wise up on this, on 'Save As,'

and Locking peope's own files, imo.

What do you do if you try re-syncing with no photos selected and the photos still don't disappear from your iPad?

I've just restored my iPad and accidentally left it syncing all my photos. Now when I deselect "Sync my photos" in iTunes the space used shoots down to practically nothing and the free space goes up. However as soon as I click apply the space used by photos goes back up. The sync takes place and "Sync my photos" remains unchecked but the space used by photos is still over 20Gb and all the photos are still on my iPad. This from a freshly installed iPad.

Has anyone had this before (and fixed it)?

I have tried all the mentioned methods but after selecting photos and tapping "delete" nothing happened. I need a better answer.

"I have tried all the mentioned methods"

Not really.

What I've found, after reading three or four websites, is:

a) the "show all photos" has no effect other than hiding photos that are not on your device, but rather in the cloud -- so by doing this it may eliminate some confusion as you can't delete a photo that's only in the cloud (i.e., not downloaded on your device); and

b) it seems to me you can only delete photos from the photos, Album, or Artist 'tab' (click the 'Songs' or 'Album' or or 'Artist' icon at the bottom of the Music app) -- I can't seem to delete a song in a playlist, which is frustrating as I work out of playlists 90% of the time .

And yes, swiping right-to-left gets the Delete icon to show. This is the page that helped me the most: How to Delete Photos from iPad

Cooperively wrote:

a) the "show all photos" has no effect other than hiding photos that are not on your device, but rather in the cloud -- so by doing this it may eliminate some confusion as you can't delete a photo that's only in the cloud (i.e., not downloaded on your device); and

b) it seems to me you can only delete photos from the photos, Album, or Artist 'tab' (click the 'Songs' or 'Album' or or 'Artist' icon at the bottom of the Music app) -- I can't seem to delete a song in a playlist, which is frustrating as I work out of playlists 90% of the time .

And yes, swiping right-to-left gets the Delete icon to show. This is the page that helped me the most: How to Delete Photos from iPad

Your post is total nonsense...

This is about photos, not iTunes.