I don't have a Mac, I have a toshiba running on windows (not sure what year, I think it is 2008). Please explain it in simple terms, I have no problem with technology but it hates me.
iPhone 4S
this is what i see when i go to photos like you guys suggested
how am i supposed to delete pictures? at the bottom the little bar that shows usage looks smaller than when i had all my computer photos on it, but nothing changed on my phone once i synced it. 😟 i told you guys i am technologically challanged!
yes i did. when i did the photo part of the usage bar got very large and then when it finished syncing it went back down like it is in the picture i posted. but the picutres aren't gone.
Connect your iPhone to iTunes. When you see it appear in iTunes on the left side under Devices, click on it. Now go to the Photos tab on the right and click on it. Here you want to deselect the pictures you don't want to appear on your phone by unchecking them (or to remove them all deselect Sync Photos From). Press the Apply button on the bottom to resync your phone and remove the pictures.
With your iPhone connected to iTunes, select it under Devices in the iTunes source list on the left hand side to make the various options for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes available in the main iTunes window. Select Photos for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes. To remove all photos on your iPhone that were transferred from your computer, deselect Sync Photos, select Apply followed by a sync.
This should have removed all pictures other than the ones in your Camera Roll, and the iTunes display is indicating that it did delete these pictures based on the change you saw on the Capacity bar. Check your phone to see if there are still pictures other than in Camera Roll. (If you want to delete pictures in Camera Roll, that's a different procedure.)
In iPhone Photos app, where are your photos listed? Camera Roll, Photo Stream or Photo Library?
In Camera Roll, you can directly delete on your phone.
In Photo Stream, you have to go to https://icloud.com to delete the photos
In Photo Library, use iTunes (which you did).
So, the first 2 options left.
the photos are just under the photos icon loaded on the phone already. i don't know which of the three catagories that is. All of them are in folders within the normal app (the one that has a flower as the picture).
I guess that means I need to use the icloud but I don't have that actived and don't know how to use it.
I just got my iphone for Christmas which maybe why i am having so many problems since I have never had one before.
I know i am probably getting annoying, sorry.
I have tried that. I go to albums and click edit. Then the little minus pops up next to the catagories I have made on my iphone but not next to the images from my computer.
Just to clarify, are you saying that your have a total of 8 Albums: Camera Roll, Photo Library, two additional albums you created from pictures in your Camera Roll, and four additional albums containing the pictures from your computer that your are trying to delete? If this isn't right, please list the exact list of Albums you see.
If you haven't actived iCloud you don't have Photo Stream, and if you read the entire discussion you will see that we've already tried to resolve this using iTunes.
SabrinaRose, let's try closing the Photo app and restarting it. Press the home button on your phone once to return to the home screen. Then press the home button twice quickly to bring up the list of recently use apps at the bottom of the screen. Locate the Photos icon (with the yellow flower on it) in this list, if you don't see it, swipe the icons until you do. When you find it, press and hold it until it jiggles. Then press the red minus sign on it. Now press the home button once and open Photos again and see if anything changed.
The only thing I can think of to try is to reset your phone. Don't worry, you won't lose any data. To do this hold the on/off button on the top of the phone and the home buttons simultaneously for 10-15 seconds until you see the Apple logo. You sill first see a red slider appear to turn the phone off -- ignore this. When you see the Apple logo release both buttons and wait for the phone to restart (this will take a few seconds to complete). Then open Photos and see if anything changed.
At this point I would suggest you take your phone to the Apple store and let them have a look at it. Take a print out of this discussion with you so they will know what you've already tried, including: deselecting Photos in iTunes and resyncing (which showed a reduction in photo space on your phone but apparently didn't actually remove the photos), trying to delete individual photos from these folders, trying to delete the empty folders, stopping and restarting the Photos app, and resetting your phone. Hopefully they will be able to sort this out for you.
Sorry we couldn't fix it tonight. Have a happy new year!
Plug you iPhone into your computer, select the iPhone, select the photos tab. Now check (not uncheck) the sync photos from... Select the folder where the photo came from, click apply then sync, now uncheck the sync photos box, click apply, it will ask you if you want to remove the photos click remove, it will not delete other photos exept the ones in the folder that was synced. Then click sync and the photos will be removed
Did you press the Sync button on the bottom right?
I know... but when I checked they were all still there. I know how to delete Camera Roll photographs, but these just won't go away.
I accidentally synced all the pictures from my laptop onto my iphone4. It won't let me delete the pictures. How do I get rid of them? They are just wasting space.
