How do you delete photos from the Edited album in iPhoto for iOS?

Select the EDITED folder in iPhoto and then select the picture you want to delete. Then after you select the picture you want deleted press "X" and press the "EDIT" button in the top right so it is no longer highlighted blue. This will delete the photos that you have previously edited and remove them from the EDIT folder.

You asked in your edited folder. That will delete it in your edited folder. If you want the picture to be deleted from your Camera Roll folder (in iPhoto) then do the same action but in that folder and it will be removed permanently within iPhoto. The photo still will be in your main Camera Roll on your phone unless you delete it from there as well.

Pick one picture and test before you start deleting everything. This works just like the regular iPhoto. The pictures in your iPhoto are like albums. You can delete them and the orgianal will still be in your main camera roll on the phone. iPhoto only duplicates the pictures from the main camara roll on the phone. Once you go into your Camera Roll through the phone (flower icon) and erase it is gone because that is the original.

Hope you followed that..

Funny.. Works for me.. I have done the above several times. Sorry it does not work for you. I am finding a lot of issues these days that are not working across the board. In fact I have a iPhone 4 and 4s and some apps work differently. Now some would say that is crazy but what is crazy is how features on the 4 are not working on the 4s. Some have issues of apps crashing and not working while others seem to be fine. I guess this is a perfect example...

I've been a little frustrated by this too. Best suggestion I can make is to start iPhoto for iOS then go to the selection of seeing all photos which is next to Albums on the primary screen of iPhoto for iOS.

Tap the ? At the top right of menu bar. Wait for the Help menu to load. Might take a fe seconds.

Once the menu loads tap View and Organize Photos

Tap Delete Photos from iPhoto. You'll see the explanation of how to delete photos which depends on how the photos got into iPhoto in the first place. You'll also get a link to info on Hiding Photos.

Heres how guys:

Ive just spent about an hour trying to work this out and finally managed to do it : heres how

If you click on the 'edited album' on the primary screen. This will show you the photos that you are trying to delete. Your quite right in that if you click the X it doesnt delete them, just hides them.

First make sure the photo you want to delete doesnt exist in 'Journals' or 'favourites' or any other album. If its being used elsewhere, you cant delete it from edited album.

So what I did was I deleted the journal with the photo in, then I selected the photo I want to delete in the edited album.. Then I removed the caption I had put on it by clicking the edit button, click the caption and deleting the caption in the normal way.

Then I clicked on the cog at the bottom right of the screen and reverted to the original photo to remove the changes i had made with contrast, colour etc.

Then I came out of the 'edited' albums. The photo I want to delete then magically appears in a new album in the primary screen called 'Photo Box' which wasnt there before. If you go into this and select the photo, then select the cog, there is an option to delete it.,,,, and its then gone for good...I think!!

Its not at all obvious and I managed it only by reading the help on deleting a photo - the line that made the penny drop is where it states that if anything is changed on the originally imported photo ie: if you add a caption, use it in journals, mark it as favourite etc etc then it will remain in the edited album until you remove everuything you did to the origonal.

Hope this helps. 😮)

This only worked for few photos. I still have three photos stuck in the edited folder.

They are not beefing used in any journal or album. I removed them using the photo app, so when I list all photos they are not there, but they still show in the edited photos folder on iPhoto.

Anyone has any suggestions? This bug is really annoying and I don't understand how can a simple function as delete be so complicated on the iPhoto app....

Hi, Just as @s1mplesimon suggested, if you go into your edited folder, sellect your photo, then touch the edit button, next touch the icon in the lower right corner (this is the "options" icon), then touch the "Revert" button (it's the red button), the photo will dissappears . When u do this to all three remaining photos then the edited folder will disappear.

If this does not work, then I would just delete and then reinstall the iPhoto app. Maybe there is just a glitch somewhere , so just download the app again.. Hope it helps....

Deleting and reinstalling the app worked. I do not see those photos anymore...

It is a pain to do this everytime I edit a photo and I want to delete photos.

What I am trying to figure out is why Apple does not offer a straight up delete option from the iPhoto app, is not that hard and I would expect this option from any aplication.

So, does this mean that as long as you have a journal published to iCloud, all of the photos & videos published to that journal also have to remain on the iOS device that they originated from?

Thats the way I'm reading it from the results of this thread...

I am planning on using a lot of journal space, but at the moment it is taking up a large chunk of my iPads storage (which I was trying to reclaim), only to find that if an object is used in a journal, I can't delete it!?

I was hoping that once I had published the journal to iCloud that was it, stored in the cloud and I could then remove the "prep work" from the ipad, leaving the journal in the cloud. If I wanted to make later changes it would then just redownload/upload the objects requiring editing. Doesn't look like thats the case though.

Speak with a genious on this, I will. Hmmmm.

After hours (days?) of frustration I was able to find a work around (IPad2). I had a captioned photo in a journal that ended up in a "locked" album when the journal was deleted. It wouldn't edit. It wouldn't revert. I couldn't delete the photo or the album (locked). I tried everything except uninstalling IPhoto and doing another install. The fix was simple in the end, but the photo is gone forever, even from the main library on my Mac (WiFi Sync anyone)? Make sure you have a duplicate or backup of the photo before you do this though I'm unsure if a delete photo will also remove duplicates.

Select the photo(s) you want to delete from the main photo page in the IPhoto App. Hit the "share" button and create an new Journal with just those photo(s) you want to delete. Tap the photo in the new journal to edit it. You should then be able to remove the caption and/or revert to original. I was then able to delete the photo. It was moved to a new Album called Photo Box. I was able to delete the photo (cog) from the album. The Album went poof. So did the original from the desktop library.

Hope this helps.

I was figuring out this problem as well. After an hour's trying to delete the 80 edited photo. Here is the logic to delete photo:

1. If you apply effects on a photo, undo it after you publish it or saved it via iTunes.

2. If you added captions, remove it.

3. Remove the "favorites, clicked, or remove it from a Jounrnal."

4. Above process will move those photos in a "Photo Box"

5. From photo box, mass select many photos (use two finger touch to determine the area), then you will see a red "delete photo" and it will ask you again for confirmation.

It's such a hassle to delete edited photos. Hope they will fix it in next update.

I can honestly say having had this problem what a complete trauma and stress to complete a very simple and basic task - to delete a photo. iPhoto AND the photo management (copying from iPAD to macbook) on IOS is very r3t4rded. It is way behind the basic functionality of even MS XP.