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I have deleted 15,000 photos from my phone. I now cannot permanently remove them from my deleted items album. When I either press the delete all or try to delete a smaller subset of the photos, nothing happens.
Hi. Waited for over an hour. It did not permanently try delete any of the photos. After a while, I tried again. Still no progress. Quit the photos app and tried again. Also shut down the ipbone and re-started it. Still have the original problem. Even tried deleting from Settings -> general -> iPhone storage ->" Photos - Recently Deleted - Empty (save 23 GB)". When I did this, the " Photos - Recently Deleted - Empty (save 23 GB)" greyed out and a wheel appeared. Then after the phone sat for a while the wheel disappeared and the ""Photos - Recently Deleted - Empty (save 23 GB)" was no longer greyed out though no progress had been made in deleting the photos
tap select. tap and hold a photo, and slide your finger across the row. this will select all the photos in the row. now you can slide your finger up and it will select every row you slide your finger past.
It sounds like now all you can do is delete them a few at a time (like a hundred or so). I know this is tedious but thats just how it is unfortunately.
with such a large amount of photos, this could take a few minutes. try again and wait, if nothing still happens I like to quit photos app and try once more.
Tried as few as four at a time from the deleted photos album and even that amount did not work.
Actually works on 20 after a re-boot of the phone. Looks like deleting individually would work. Is there a way to select 100 without checking the 100 individually?
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Cannot permanently delete large number of photos from iphone
