How to delete photo albums from iPhone 4

There must be a better way than this, this appears to be a major oversight from Apple.

I have my camera roll, a folder called 'Photo Library' then a duplicate folder called 'iPhone' which has the same contents as Photo Library.

I have selected don't sync and chose the option 'Delete Photos' but they are still there. Its very annoying.

Open the Photos you want to delete on your iPhone in the Photos App. Tap on the little Trash can icon. Confirm that you want to delete. Seems simple enough to me.

simon665 wrote:

There must be a better way than this, this appears to be a major oversight from Apple.

I have my camera roll, a folder called 'Photo Library' then a duplicate folder called 'iPhone' which has the same contents as Photo Library.

I have selected don't sync and chose the option 'Delete Photos' but they are still there. Its very annoying.

This is correct. Camera Roll is temporary storage for pics taken with iphone. you should be importing them regularly to your computer as with any other digital camera.

Photo Library will ALWAYS be on your iphone it is where you can access all pics synced to your iphone. So if you synced multiple folders to your iphone, you couls access all pics from one place.

You "iphone" is the folder that you synced to your iphone. You can access the very same pics as you can access from photo library. There are not two copied, simply to ways to reach the same pics.

I had the same problem. Here is a solution that worked for me. Create a new empty folder. Restart your itunes. Now, do a pictures synch using 'selected folders' - only now, change your selection from your iphone folder to the new empty folder and do a sync. This deletes the photos and the iphone folder in your iphone.

I am surprised there isnt an easier way to manage my photos.

I tried several ideas that are out there. Yours was the one that worked for me. Thanks.

Zenius - you're a genius! 😝

Seriously - thank you. What a great idea. Like tumblehome this was the first suggestion that worked for me and sooooooo simple.

Actually - it didn't work! I thought it had because I couldn't see any photos in iphoto on my iphone but the photos are still on my iphone. V frustrating.

I'm not able to select "Selected folders" in the "photos" tab of my itunes. I don't know why.

Any more suggestions?

Ok I found a solution that worked for me:

The easiest way that I know of is:

1. Connect your iPhone to your Mac.

2. Open Image Capture and select your iPhone from Devices

3. When all of the images have been listed in Image Capture, Select All... (Cmd-A).

4. At the bottom of the window with the list is a Delete button next to the "Import To:" label. Click it.

5. Verify that you want to remove all of the images from your iPhone and let the application do its job.

Regards,

Don O'Shea

I'll post the link here to ensure the author gets credit:

http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/threads/how-to-clear-the-camera-roll.5812/

Thanks Don O'Shea 🙂

I was actually just having this problem and when I went back into "Sync photos from iPhoto" in iTunes, I selected "Selected Albums, Events...." In the pull-down menu, I chose "No Events." Because the Events are in albums, or vice versa, if you sync no events, it will remove them, and their albums from your iPhone! I was so frustrated but it was just one click away 🙂

Your idea worked for me. Thank you!

zenius

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Re: How to delete photo albums from iPhone 4

Nov 19, 2011 2:47 AM

This suggestion worked best for me. Thank Zenius. Charles...

Thanks christiebird, your advice (Selecting first Sync photos from iPhoto" and then sync'ing after selecting "no events" in the pull down menus; I did tick one recent event to see what happens) worked for me - I think 🙂.

However, the Cameral Roll is still there with 4195 picture I wanted to delete, but the Photo Library has only 25 picks as I had ticked one last event. My iPhoto library has some 7500 pics.

I am not sure that I understand what is happening here and what should I do with the Cameral Roll.

Any advice?

The simplest way to delete an album that you have transferred from your computer is to create an empty folder and name it the same as the album that you want to delete on your iphone. Connect your phone to your computer and open itunes. Go to photos for 'sync photos from' select your empty folder and then click on sync. This should delete the album. I just tried it and it happened to work.