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Deleting photos without a trashcan

Is there a simple friggin way to delete photos from an ipad when no trashcan present??


Posted on Mar 19, 2019 7:43 PM

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Posted on Mar 19, 2019 8:20 PM

Forgot some info.

To delete photo/images in the iOS Photos app, you tap the Edit name in the upper right hand of the iPad’s screen.

The tap Select and start tapping on photo/images to delete.

To faster select more photos/images to delete, tap and hold your finger on one image and slide your finger left or right to select/de-select whole rows of photo/images.

Once you selected all of your photo/images to delete, tap on the trashcan icon in the upper left of your iPad's screen then tap the Delete Photo/s button/prompt to delete these images.

Deleted photo/images go into an album/folder, in the iOS Photos app, called Recently Deleted.


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Mar 19, 2019 8:20 PM in response to smithbro

Forgot some info.

To delete photo/images in the iOS Photos app, you tap the Edit name in the upper right hand of the iPad’s screen.

The tap Select and start tapping on photo/images to delete.

To faster select more photos/images to delete, tap and hold your finger on one image and slide your finger left or right to select/de-select whole rows of photo/images.

Once you selected all of your photo/images to delete, tap on the trashcan icon in the upper left of your iPad's screen then tap the Delete Photo/s button/prompt to delete these images.

Deleted photo/images go into an album/folder, in the iOS Photos app, called Recently Deleted.


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Mar 19, 2019 8:01 PM in response to smithbro

Go into the iOS Photos app, under the Album menu, look for an album/folder called Recently Deleted.

From there, you can either wait the 30 days for the iPad to delete these images automatically, OR you can manually and quickly delete these photos/images off of your iPad, yourself.

Be advised this Recently Deleted folder/album is a saftey net for any photo/images that are accidentally deleted as the images in this album/folder can be restore to the Photos camera roll from this album/folder location.

When you manually delete photo/images from this album/folder, they will be deleted and GONE PERMANENTLY from the iOS Photos app, with no more chance for recovery ( unless you have a backup of these images elsewhere, like iCloud, Google Drive/Photos, Flickr, and similar online/offsite data storage or images backed up on a computer through either iTunes, the Photos app on a Mac or other means of getting photo/images onto a Windows PC ).


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Deleting photos without a trashcan

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