How do I delete photos in camera roll

Delete Multiple Photos on the iPhone

Step 1

Click the "Photos" icon on your iPhone's home screen. The Photos icon has a yellow flower on it.

Step 2

Click your Camera Roll to view its contents.

Step 3

Click the "Share" button in the top corner of your iPhone's screen. The Share button looks like a rectangle with an arrow pointing out of it.

Step 4

Tap the thumbnail image for each of the photos you want to delete.

Step 5

Tap the "Delete" button to delete all of the selected photos from your iPhone's Camera Roll.

Connect your phone to the computer you normally sync with. If either iPhoto or iTunes starts on your computer, quit those applications. On a Mac start Image Capture. This application is in your Applications > Utilities folder. When Image Capture is run you will see all the photos in your Camera Roll and be able to Select All and delete.

I have an iPhone 4 iOS 6.1.3. The way I delete multiple pictures in my camera roll is slightly different than winnijones (when I click "Camera Roll" doing it her way there is no "Share" button". This might vary by phone or iOS?).

From Camera, click the thumbnail image (mine is lower left corner).

In preview click "Camera Roll" (mine is upper left corner) to view its contents.

Click "Share" button (mine is bottom center and looks like a rectangle with an arrow going to the right out of it)

Select the images you want to delete and confirm.

Thanks... deleting with image capture worked perfectly (latest IOS and OSX) and allowed me to quickly delete 500+ photos without the brain-dead 'select each photo' method on the iphone.

Look for the little red circle with a slash through it on the bottom of the image capture window. Simply selecting all the photos and hitting delete or looking in the edit menu won't work.

I just deleted the Camera Roll from my iphone 5S using Image Capture, as suggested in forums. I plugged the phone in via USB, launched Image

Capture, which then showed all the photos on Camera roll on iphone in albums. I then selected a few at a time and hit the red delete button within Image Capture.

I had been having duplicate photos on the iPhone, and as I hit delete, I watched all the duplicates go away. I finally selected all, and hit delete. Now no more duplicates.

In the future I will not let Camera Roll accumulate 900 pictures before deleting.

I think because of the iCloud automatic syncing, I never see the opportunity to delete after uploading. Before iCloud I would always see the delete option while uploading.

You will find Image Capture in your application folder.

I also want to do this, but when I plug in my iPhone, Image Capture does not see it as a device? I just get DEVICES = 0. Great. 😟 (I get the same problem with iPhoto - that sees no devices either.)

The way we are supposed to do this, is Settings > General > Usage > Storage > Photos & Camera > Camera Roll. You then do a left-hand side swipe on that and a nice little red Delete button appears. So you tap it - and NOTHING happens. (Not just for me, but for everyone - I've seen this reported on hundreds of Apple forums.) What is the point of having such a useless feature that is quite clearly broken?!

In desperation, I used a third-party app called iBrowse to delete them - I've been using this to copy my Camera Roll photos to my hard drive, and it does that OK. However, I've just deleted the contents of my DCIM > 102APPLE folder in that, and it's showing empty in the app. is it really empty? No, it's not - the **** things are all still there on my phone! 😕

So unless anyone has any better ideas, I shall be booking a couple of hours of my life in order to tap on every photo in my Camera Roll, because Apple isn't providing me with a mass-select option. And how stupid is THAT?! Grrr...... 😠

(Don't tell me to look for a 'Share' button - I don't HAVE a Share button! I'm still running IOS 6, because I haven't got room to upgrade.)

Try again. I launched Image Capture on my computer, then plugged in iphone by usb, and the pictures were all there; of the camera roll, that is.

The reason I did all this was because I was getting duplicate pictures on my phone, because it was showing all the synced photos, plus the cameras roll, from whence the pictures came to my iPhoto folder; thus: two copies of each. By deleting the camera roll contents, it's back to one of each.

The method you have been using that hasn't worked- doesn't work. Try Image Capture.

you would have to hit edit and then select each one to delete. There is no mass delete.

only way to mass is after importing it to your computer, you can then delete iphoto.

go to setting.icloud.back up and storage. manage storage. then click on a back up. and turn off things she doesnt need backed up

Manage albums: Tap Edit:

• Rename an album: Select the album, then enter a new name.

• Rearrange albums: Drag .

• Delete an album: Tap .

Only albums created on iPhone can be renamed or deleted.

Simply tap the photos icon, select Camera Roll from Albums, hit edit--> then select photos to be deleted and delete.

I tried this, deleting from Image Capture with all other applications closed but that didn't work either.