How do I delete photos from iPhone while on the Mac?

I would like to delete selected photos, not all photos after importing. Is it possible ? I started to think iphobne is such a bad idea. Really want to switch to Android now. I had so much trouble with iphone.

I wish that were true. The instructions worked well until "click the delete icon . . ."

There is no delete icon.

This seems only to be useful for importing.

I'm using an imac with iphone 7+

the options are "import" and "import all"

nothing indicating delete.

I even tried "cut" from the pull-down "edit" menu. That did nothing with the photos selected.

You are just know figuring this out. Get off answers.

I followed all of these steps, but there is no "delete" icon on the bottom of the screen that I can see. It seems to only allow me to import. Has this icon moved? I am assuming it would look like a trash can.

I use iPhoto on my Mac and I choose selected iPhoto albums I've created and/or Events under the Photos tab for my iPhone sync preferences.

If I want to remove an entire album, I deselect the album under the Photos tab followed by a sync. Want to remove select photos in an album without removing the entire album, I remove the photos from the selected album in iPhoto followed by a sync. As with removing a song from an iTunes playlist, removing a photo from an iPhoto album does not delete the photo from the iPhoto library.

The iPhone's Photo Library stores photos transferred from your computer.

You meant from the iPhone's Camera Roll.

Another option provided by iPhoto and Image Capture when using either one to import photos/videos from the Camera Roll is deleting all from the Camera Roll at once after the import process is complete.

You say there are additional steps if you sync your pix manually which I do on a MacBook Pro w/an iphone 4. I don't just wanna erase pix on the camera roll, I want to browse the photo library & delete some pix from there too. Can I do this w/the extra steps? If so how? If not is there any other way?

Thanks-

Mike

I am having the same problem....I had some photos on my iMac that i synced to the iPhone...but deleted the photos from the iMac. Now they are on the iPhone. They are no longer in iPhoto or any other location on my iMac. They do not appear in image capture when the iPhone is connected to the Mac nor do I have the option to delete individual photos from the iPhone. Please help, this is very frustrating...

Wow, iPhoto cannot delete pics from the iPhone? You need a SECOND application to do that?

Crazy.

Whatever happened to making things easy "for the rest of us" ?

Yes iPhoto can as provided and the same with the Image Capture app.

This is happening to me too. Before the latest iOS update, when browsing photos on the iPhone, there was a garbage can icon in the lower right corner. It's gone now.

I had imported an album of photos FROM iPhoto TO the iPhone but now want to delete them. I tried the solution presented above, but they never show up in "Image Capture" so there's no way to get rid of them. They do not show up if I plug in my iPhone in iPhoto either. It's like the photos do not exist anywhere.... and yet, there they are on my iPhone and I cannot get rid of them.

Has anyone been able to solve this?

Before the latest iOS update, when browsing photos on the iPhone, there was a garbage can icon in the lower right corner. It's gone now.

Only with the Camera Roll, not with Photo Library which includes photos that were transferred from your computer via the iTunes sync/transfer process.

I had imported an album of photos FROM iPhoto TO the iPhone but now want to delete them. I tried the solution presented above, but they never show up in "Image Capture" so there's no way to get rid of them. They do not show up if I plug in my iPhone in iPhoto either. It's like the photos do not exist anywhere.... and yet, there they are on my iPhone and I cannot get rid of them.

iPhoto and the Image Capture app on a Mac can delete photos and videos from the iPhone's Camera Roll, not for photos that were transferred from your computer via the iTunes sync/transfer process which are stored in the iPhone's Photo Library.

Photos that were transferred from your computer via the iTunes sync/transfer process (which is selected under the Photos tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes) and are the photos in the Photo Library on your iPhone are removed in the same way - via the iTunes sync/transfer process. To remove all photos on your iPhone that were transferred from your computer, deselect Sync Photos under the Photos tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes followed by a syn. If you are transferring photos from iPhoto on your Mac, you can select sync select iPhoto albums, events, ect. and deselect the iPhoto albums, events, etc. below followed by a sync to remove the albums, events. To remove a select photo only from your iPhone that is in an iPhoto album selected to be transferred to your iPhone, remove the photo from the iPhoto album in iPhoto followed by a sync.

This had confused me because I had not used photo sync through iTunes; what solved the problem for me was, I turned ON photo sync in iTunes but did NOT select any albums to sync. then I synced the phone, and the photos disappeared.

Thank you for your help!!

-- Craig.

You're welcome.

That is the only way photos can be in your iPhone's Photo Library. The photos can't get there any other way.