Deleting Photos from Camera Roll

I know....Don't you hate that? Someone's going to come up with a word for it, soon. Once in a while I'll open an email to find someone's replied to some nonsense I was spewing 12 years ago on a forum I don't even remember. Then you have to figure out your username/password and apologize or explain yourself.

And it only gets worse. The internet's pretty young. It's going to be really annoying when the posts are from 40 or 50 years ago.

If you have 1000 photos like I do, deleting each individual photo will take too much time. After exhaustively searching the net for the answer since Apple can't provide us with a simple DELETE ALL function, was to plug in my iphone to my PC, click on My Computer, double click on your Iphone Icon, double click on the folders until you get to your images - delete all your images from there . BAM. gone.

Thanks! You should also be able to do this through:

1. Settings > General > Photos & Camera Roll

2. Swipe right on Camera Roll to display Delete button

3. Press Delete

But I had over 5 GB worth of photos that wouldn't go away until I saw your post.

Lokeswari thanks for this but despite getting the delete button up and pressing it it does not delete. I have apparently 4.3GB in my roll despite that I have deleted all photos via iPhoto. I have even tried Iexplore but still cannot get rid of the phantom photos - any suggestions?

my phone was recently stolen .. so i cancelled service and asked for it to be block. I'm more worried about the pictures that are on the phone (old iphone)...once i do this i figure that person will have to recent the whole phone in order to see my info...so does that mean my picture and everything will be wiped??? because thats exactly what i wanted to do but cancelling my service...i hope someone can help me with this. thank you

If you have iOS 7, you can use Image Capture on your Mac to delete photos from the iPhone without importing them:

• Plug the iPhone to your Mac with the iPhone cable;

• Quit iPhoto if it launches automatically;

• Launch Image Capture;

• Select the photos you want to delete;

• Click the red icon to delete the photos from Camera Roll.

You can also delete multiple photos from the Camera Roll at the same time via using your PC and the following tutorial: How to delete photos from iPhone Camera Roll

This is the best way (using Image Capture) to delete all photos in the camera roll. Sometimes it is the only way because when the iPhone gets almost full the delete all after importing" in iPhoto does not work. Sometimes if there is near zero space available you even have to delete a bunch of photos or apps just to get Image Capture to recognize the iPhone (even if iTunes still does).

Using iOS 7.1 on iPhone 5.

1. Select "Moments" on the Photo App. You will then see the photos divided into dates and where taken. Next to each heading, you will see a Share link ... don't press this yet!!

2. Press the Select link at the very top right-hand corner of the app. You will notice that the Share links change to Select links.

3. Choose which Moments are to be deleted ... this will select every photo in that Moment.

4. Click the bin icon at the bottom of the screen.

After a confirmation prompt, many pictures are deleted at once! 🙂

Ok 2017 July and none of these options work at all anymore,

Furthermore I use PC not MAC

I should be able to 'select all' / 'delete' on my phone

why does Apple have to complicate things so much?

I was able to hit 'select all' 'delete all' in each album but they all still appear in the camera roll.

how do I get rid of them from the camera roll?

Finally, one good answer!!! Can not this forum give you the answer with the most likes first?? like many other webs already do...

Open Photos>Camera Roll, press the arrow button on upper right, tap the photos you want to delete, press the delete key.

Bring up the camera roll on your phone, hit the arrow in the right above corner, choose the photos to delete by touching them, hit delete to remove them.

First tap on Camera Roll to bring up thumbnail images of the pictures, then look at the upper right for the arrow.