In Iphoto, How can I delete photos on my iphone that have already been imported?

WBG3 wrote:

So let's get this right; you can't right click on a photo in Photos and delete them on your iPhone? How lame is that?

You cannot right-click on your phone. That isn't lame, that is the way it has always been. No matter, photos that have been synced to the phone via iTunes have to be removed the same way, via the sync process. Same way it has been from the beginning. The only photos that you can delete directly from the phone are those in the Camera Roll.

Unfortunately the new Photos app makes this problem even worse, however, there is one other workaround I've found besides image capture. You can re-import the photos (even though they've already been imported) in order to use the "delete items after import" feature, then select the "Last Import" album and delete them all from Photos in order to eliminate the duplicates.

Tried importing, got no "delete afterimport" option, just an error message "couldn't importsequential duplicates" or something like that. I also had 1400 "recent" on iPhone before this import, now I suddenly have 2800…

Since I can delete photos from the iPhone it makes no sense that I should have to import before deleting via Photos / lame sync process.
Edit: tried once more. Still no option to delete. Now have triplicates on hard drive, phone still full. Guess I'll do a full wipe and set up as new.

I had same problem .... no photos still photos holding up space on my device here is the solution

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-8281

Its because of new update on iPhone, Old photos don't get delete by it self you have to delete them manually.

I have the same problem. Previously iPhoto would give me the option to delete imported photos once everything was imported, but now it does not for some reason, in spite of all photos being imported. How do I get that option back? Sure I can use Image Capture but it's a bit less convenient.