Delete camera roll directly from iPhone 4?

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Delete camera roll directly from iPhone 4?

I've seen the instruction to "tap the trash can," but I only get the trash can to delete individual photos. Is there a "delete all" option?

I'm thinking if you were away from the computer and wanted to delete all or groups of photos.

iPhone 4

iMac 266ghz 24", Mac OS X (10.6.4), also, iBook G4 from Sept. '04, 10.5.8, 1.25 GB ram

Posted on Nov 7, 2010 8:49 AM

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Allan Sampson

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Nov 7, 2010 9:03 AM in response to Outpost

There is no "delete all" option or "select all" option.

You can select more than one photo at a time to be deleted followed by selecting Delete.

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Outpost Author

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Nov 7, 2010 11:12 AM in response to Allan Sampson

Thanks!

I don't seem to be able to select one without it going directly to the individual photo. Is there a trick to selecting more than one?

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wjosten

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Nov 7, 2010 11:45 AM in response to Outpost

Touch the Photos button on the home menu, and select "Camera Roll". Once you are viewing the photo thumbnails in the Camera Roll, touch the small arrow at the bottom left of the screen. You can now select the photos you wish to delete by touching them. A red check mark will appear on the selected photos. Touch the "Delete" button at the bottom of the screen.

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Outpost Author

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Nov 8, 2010 6:05 AM in response to wjosten

Thanks! Got in now.

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wjosten

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Nov 8, 2010 7:05 AM in response to Outpost

You're welcome.

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LP2002

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Nov 22, 2010 10:47 PM in response to Outpost

You can also import your all photos from your camera roll into iPhoto. When they have all been imported, iPhoto will ask if you want to delete all photos on the camera. At that time you can delete all of them at once.

🙂 Kendra

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Jan 10, 2011 2:02 PM in response to LP2002

I've found that despite selecting 'delete originals' when I sync they stay on my iPhone.
Wish there was a way to select all photos in the Camera Roll and wipe them out.

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Jan 10, 2011 2:21 PM in response to wjosten

wjosten wrote:
... touch the small arrow at the bottom left of the screen. You can now select the photos you wish to delete by touching them. A red check mark will appear on the selected photos. ...

Interesting. On my iPhone 4, running iOS 4.2.1, the "small arrow" you speak of is actually on the top right of the screen rather than the bottom left, but it is still there.

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Jan 10, 2011 2:22 PM in response to Kevin Gould

You can still use the technique that wjosten mentioned above. Just select all photos before you hit the delete button.

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Jan 22, 2011 8:37 PM in response to Outpost

Yes, a select all or region select in the camera roll for delete should be available and Apple could add it easily enough in software.

I have 1300+ photos and 111 videos to delete from the camera roll and did not want to reset my phone just to accomplish this task.

I just tried holding my finger down on the display while selecting photos to delete and found if you keep the finger down, you can scroll the screen and multiple select photos, just moving the your finger and keeping it on the screen. While not ideal, it is allowing me to delete everything in minutes vs hours or a reset.

Apple please add select all!

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Ubed

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Jan 25, 2011 8:04 AM in response to Outpost

how to delete photos from other albums on iPhone 4 like for camera album?

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Jan 25, 2011 8:17 AM in response to Gregory Lynn

When using iPhoto or the Image Capture application for the import, when selecting delete originals from your iPhone's Camera Roll after the import process is complete, the photos/videos in the Camera Roll are not deleted?

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Apr 1, 2011 7:30 AM in response to Allan Sampson

If you connect to image capture on a mac, you can freely select all and delete all the pictures at once, and you have the option of backing the pictures up to a place other than the iphoto library

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Oct 14, 2011 12:29 PM in response to Admiral_Anderision

Perfect! This is the soultion. I had 1,500 photos on my phone which, being a clepto, I never would delete after importing to iPhoto. Having alll of these is unmanagable and slows backing up the phone for a iOS5 upgrade.

"Image Capture" is standard application in the Application Folder. The only "delete" option I saw as the forbidden circle (red with slash) at the bottom of the screen about 5 icons from the left.

Did the the triack. Thanks again to Admiral Anderision.🙂

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Nov 11, 2011 9:30 PM in response to Outpost

I would LOVE to see the red arrow at the bottom left of my screen, but it doesn't exsist on my iphone4s. Is it because mine is white? 😉

anyway, top right corner, the square and arrow (which is white) did the trick...anyone else see this red arrow?

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