Can not delete photos

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Can not delete photos

There is no option to delete photos from my iPhone 16 pro. I think I synced it to my iMac and/or iTunes and then had duplicates of everything, as well as photos I had previously deleted, show back up in my Library. I have tried everything, un-synced re-synced, looked online for a solution and nothing works. This is taking up a lot of storage and has wasted a lot of my time trying to figure it all out! Also, there is no Delete option in my Photos Utilities. Please, Apple, can we not fix this??

iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Feb 14, 2025 1:51 PM

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markwmsn

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Feb 14, 2025 9:06 PM in response to photoel

If you used iTunes (or later Finder) cable-syncing to add photos to your iPhone, they go in as a blob that can only be managed from a computer. You have to use the same mechanism to change those photos in any way; make a new selection to replace the old selection and repeat the sync. If you want to remove all of them, repeat the sync with a single empty source folder.

Also:

There isn't supposed to be a Delete section in Utilities.

You are talking to other users here, not Apple (except for a few moderators keeping order).

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