Unable to delete some specific photos on my iPhone that were sync'd from my MacBook
Is there a way to remove specific sync'd pictures on my iPhone?
iPhone SE, iOS 13
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Is there a way to remove specific sync'd pictures on my iPhone?
iPhone SE, iOS 13
You can remove them by turning off syncing of those photos. If they were in an album with other synced photos that you do not want to remove, you will need to remove the entire album, rearrange on your computer and then sync the rearranged album.
See the following from Keep your photos safely stored and up to date on all of your devices - Apple Support
If you don't want the synced photos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch anymore, turn off syncing in iTunes and they'll be removed from your device. You can turn off syncing for some of your photo albums or all of them at once.
Stop syncing some albums
Stop syncing all photos
You can remove them by turning off syncing of those photos. If they were in an album with other synced photos that you do not want to remove, you will need to remove the entire album, rearrange on your computer and then sync the rearranged album.
See the following from Keep your photos safely stored and up to date on all of your devices - Apple Support
If you don't want the synced photos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch anymore, turn off syncing in iTunes and they'll be removed from your device. You can turn off syncing for some of your photo albums or all of them at once.
Stop syncing some albums
Stop syncing all photos
Thanks for this guidance:
I followed the steps under "stop syncing all photos" (*), but checking iPhone afterwards, as a result some photos have been removed, but not all previously sync'd, some remain, still showing only the option to "edit" or to "send somewhere", but not to delete.
A pity that the delete button is not present on the iPhone to remove some specific sync'd pictures.
For the future, as you explained, I can create a specific album to sync only those specific pictures I want to sync to my iPhone.
But it doesn't solve those who still remain on the iPhone after step (*) following previous sync's.
I applied several times "stop syncing all photos", but there remain a lot of photos on my IPhone without the icon to delete ( only icon to edit displayed).
Several of them have been saved from incoming messages from other apps, so not syn'd with Macbook.
Is there a way to remove all photos from IPhone, so I can start from scratch and syn'd specific albums from my Mac?
The only other way that I know of is the last item in my previous reply (the reference to Léonie) -- that should get rid of the synced photos but not other photos, but it does involve turning on iCloud Photos.
According to the following post by Léonie, you may need to sync one more time. She also has another trick involving iCloud Photos. See: Previously synced photos not deleting - Apple Community
Unable to delete some specific photos on my iPhone that were sync'd from my MacBook