Deleting all Photo Stream Pictures - How?

First of all, your iCloud backup doesn't contain photo stream photos, it only contains camera roll photos. And photo stream photos don't count against your storage plan; their totally free. So Apple has no financial incentive for you to keep photo stream photos. In fact, photo stream photos are only kept in your photo stream for 30 days. After that, they are deleted. They only remain on your device (up to 1000 photos) until you delete them, not in your photo stream.

If you want to save your photo stream photos and then delete them, open your my photo stream album, tap Edit, tap all the photos, tap Save to Camera Roll. (Normally this isn't necessary because all photo stream photos originate from the camera roll so they would normally already be there.) After they're in your camera roll you can delete them from your photo stream album by tapping Edit, tapping the photos again, then tapping Delete. Or, you can turn photo stream off, then back on and you will only get back photos added from the last 30 days as earlier photos are no longer there. That would give your fewer photos to delete.

Too bad you seem to have missed the point completely. The question is how do you delete all photos not one at a time. Your little trick of turning stream off then on is wrong too. Why do you even reply randers4?

You seem to not understand how photo stream works, and have nothing constructive to say. The only way to delete them is by selecting them one at a time and tapping delete. And photo stream photos only remain in iCloud for 30 days. When you turn photo stream off on your device all my photo stream photos are deleted. When you turn it back on, only photos from the last 30 days stream back. Unless all 1000 were added in the last 30 days, which is unlikely, this will delete many of them all at once, leaving far fewer to select individually.

I suggest you know your facts before you pick a fight here in the future.

I would also like to be able to delete ALL pictures in one go from my PhotoStream. Unfortunately, going one by one is time consuming.

I understand how PhotoStream works (trust me here). I just want to be able to delete all pictures in one go from my photostream rather than going one by one.

So the original question still stands and is unanswered.

See post above from randers4.

Turn photo stream off in settings/iCloud/photos/my photo stream.

You get a warning that all of your photos will be deleted, press delete.

Turn photo stream back on.

Check in photos and any photos older than 30 days should have gone.

I had the same question. I don't know if this is new or I haven't noticed it before but if you click "select" a "select all" will show up. Use that to delete all your pictures at once.

It is new relative to 2013 when the OP you are responding to wrote the question.

Cheers,

GB