Deleting Photos from Camera Roll

simpy put you can`t. The only around this is to import the required photo`s onto you computer and place them into a folder and import the folder into itunes and sync them to your iphone, after which you can delete them from the camera roll. If you want to be able to delete the photo`s from then camera roll after being put into albums without importing them to your computer 1st then send feedback to apple here http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

1. Connect your apple device to your Mac
2. Open the app 'Image capture'
3. Select your device
4. press keys 'Command + A' (to select all photos on your camera roll)
5. Select the delete button
6. Voila (add accent)...The photos have been deleted from your device's camera roll in mass

I had the same problem, and had to follow the steps outlined by SmartAlicks:

1. Connect your apple device to your Mac
2. Open the app 'Image capture'
3. Select your device
4. press keys 'Command + A' (to select all photos on your camera roll)
5. Select the delete button
6. Voila (add accent)...The photos have been deleted from your device's camera roll in mass

Hope this helps.

do you open your camera roll from pictures, or from the camera? Because if you open it from a camera, then there's no arrow in the right corner. You need to get there from pictures (or photos) I don't know how it is called in the english version of iOS. I mean that icon with a sunflower.

I can't believe so many people read this and did not take the time to understand it. I have the exact same problem. Obviously we know how to delete a photo from the camera roll, or we would not see the message ""delete everywhere!" The stangest thing to me, is if I send 10 photos to my phone at the same time through Photo Stream, half of them will be able to delete in the identified (normal) way and the other half come up with the message "delete everywhere" and if you do, it does and the photo is gone from every album it was in. Very inconsistent behaviour. AND, when I deleted the Photo Stream, I had the same inconsistent behaviour, some of my album photos disappeared with it and some did not - no rhyme or reason. Can anyone help here with a well-thought-out answer?

To my knowledge, you cannot delete one at a time, but if you want to clear the entire Photo Stream, just go to Settings, Photos, and turn off Photo Stream, it will prompt you to delete the photos and then you can turn Photo Stream back on - when you go to your albums, Photo Stream is empty.

I have the same 2 issues

1. It's people just don't read every word. They see how to delete photo And off they go...... Typing away the obvious as you pointed out in order to see the "DElete everywhere" one had to know how to delete.

2. Still trying to figure out how to delete just the "Camera Roll" version of the photo CONSISTENTLY. Sometimes it works and other times it doesn't (usually it doesnt).

Apparently you can't delete a single photo from the camera roll. If you hit the delete button a pop box says, "this photo is used in an album. Do you want to delete it everywhere?" The is no other option. Apple really needs to improve on photo management. It really stinks. You can't even download a decent app for the iPad or iPhone.

Ronald Treiber wrote:

Apparently you can't delete a single photo from the camera roll.

Yes you can.

If you hit the delete button a pop box says, "this photo is used in an album. Do you want to delete it everywhere?" The is no other option

Because the actual photo is in the camera roll and putting it into an album is simply a link to the photo in the camera roll.

This way you do not have multiple duplicates of a photo if it is in multiple albums.

So the only solution is to use my computer to delete the photos? Not cool.

Thanks for this answer- much appreciated - but you used to be able to delete photos off your phone (to gain space when you suddenly have too much on there) without this issue. Now I have to wait until I get home? Weird.

quirkee wrote:

So the only solution is to use my computer to delete the photos?

No.

Open the Camera Roll.

Tap the arrow at top right.

Tap the photos you want to delete then tap Delete.

You cannot delete a photo in the Camera Roll or Photo Library and keep it in an album.

Photos in an album are simply a link to the photo in the Camera Roll (or in the Photo Library).

Thank you for your response. I suppose what confuses me is that it sounds like it could be erasing it from albums on Facebook and other places maybe? I never create albums to use on my phone. Instagram created one on it's own. Iphones just come with Camera Roll....which I rarely use - I always go directly through the camera. I used to be able to delete from within the camera section - with no problems. I suppose if I don't care whether it is saved in my camera section - that is the same as not caring if it is saved in the Camera Roll album. Is that Instagram album just on the phone? If you take a pic on Instagram and it posts to Instagram already --- later - if you delete and it removes it from "all albums" thus - the Instagram album on your iphone - it can't come down from the Instagram site right? I think this is what confuses us - well, me anyway! Suddenly it all sounds really final and we don't want to screw anything up - we likely are just trying to create some space.

Thanks again for clarity!

GWeith I have the same concern,

This is what I can tell: the "albums" I believe the prompt is referring to are the "albums" in your phone. For example in my phone I have 5 albums: camera roll, hipstaprints, snapseed, instagram, diptic. If you delete a photo from your camera roll which also appears in one of those other albums, it deletes it from all of said albums - no other option (which I also dislike).

Now my question is this - when it says "delete everywhere" does it also delete the image from your photostream ( different issue altogether it seems to me because on the latest update photostream doesn't appear in the 'albums' list)? My concern in this area is that if I haven't downloaded the image on my MacBook Pro or iMac from the photostream into iPhoto or some other storage device, then presumably it's lost forever if I agree to "delete everywhere".

In reading the comments, I feel like I haven't seen a valid answer to your original question - am I right? If not, what satisfactory answer did you receive and what are you doing moving forward in this situation?

Thanks from someone who needs to free up space in her own camera roll for new shots,

Laura

PS This does not delete images sent via iMessage or on facebook etc as far as I can tell.

I also tried making folders to organize my pictures on my iPhone and came across the delete everywhere selection. What is the point of being able to make folders if you can't delete the pics from the camera roll?

Also, if you download the Dropbox you can access it from your computer or any device and store photos there and if you delete them from your camera roll they are still in your drop box... This is one way I freed up space on my phone.

The big difference being, as complicated as English is, it actually makes sense whereas the only way picture management on a iOS device could possibly be made worse would require, at a minimum, a half-eaten orange and a ferret.

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