Delete photos from iPhone after import

I was super annoyed by this too, but I found a solution. Go into Image Capture when your phone is connected and select it from the source list on the left. At the bottom you'll see a set of options, including which program should open when you connect this device. There you will find a checkbox to delete photos after import. Once I checked this box the deletions happened automatically next time I connected to aperture and imported the photos.

Thank you, thank you!

It's still crazy that this isn't baked into Aperture, and I'll file a feature request, but I'm glad to know about the Image Capture work-around.

@mebpenguin: So, the Image Capture settings silently affect Aperture? That's ugly in its own right. Not a clean way to do this.

Actually, I think I was wrong guys. I just looked at my iPhone the other day and the images have not been removed. I think that checkbox only works if you are using Image Capture to import your images.

That'd be much better, IMO. Okay. I may have to apologize to the Aperture folks for mentioning that as a second point in my feature request. ;-)

It's driving me crazy as well. I have plenty of storage space, so have been forced to keep iPhoto on, just for deleting iPhone photos. Manually trashing large numbers of individual photos from the phone is too painful to contemplate. Apple is usually much better than this.

@oakfair: Do try using ImageCapture instead. Much more direct.

Thanks for the tip. But either way we're stuck with multiple steps with what should be a straightforward operation. I'm surprised Apple has allowed this to go on for so long.

Here is a post I made on a recent similar thread:

After importing iPhone photos in Aperture, I use the Image Capture application that comes with every Mac to delete photos from the Camera Roll on the phone. It is really simple to use. Just start the application, select the the iPhone in the left window, select all of the photos (or just the ones you want to delete) and click the Delete button at the bottom of the window. It is a great way to quickly clear photos in bulk from you iPhone Camera Roll!

Worked very well. All images gone in a few seconds! Thanks for the tip Dan!

Roman

Yes, this is just ludicrous.

I bought Aperture because iPhoto stopped working after I upgraded to osx 10.7 and I could not bring myself to pay for the new iPhoto with all its limitations just to have the software work the way it's supposed to, nor was i willing to waste precious time trying ot get iritating bugs fixed. Now like everyone else here I wasted time just to be able to do what the cheaper iPhoto does automatically. My first experience with aperture is to wonder why I paid so much for little, ... every day it is getting harder to distinguish apple from microsoft.

I disagree. We frequently see variants of "Aperture lost my images" in posts here.

IMO automated "delete after import from camera/card" is almost always bad workflow in any kind of pro workflow. The reason being that image files have not yet been backed up. Some folks (not me) may consider iPhone pix to be low value, but Aperture remains a pro app and as such I encourage the Apple team to avoid facilitating automated processes that put un-backed-up images at risk.

-Allen Wicks

This should be so embarrassing to Apple that they haven't fixed this simple request yet. Wow.

JerryConnr wrote:

This should be so embarrassing to Apple that they haven't fixed this simple request yet. Wow.

There is no need to fix what is not broken. Please read the previous post.