I can't delete my synced photos!

I am having the same issue By sync. It will delete all the photos but what if someone want to delete selected photos only

And i think apple should have give the option in iphone to delete sync. Photos without connecting it to pc

Hello, I was having this problem as well but I found an easy simple way.

Steps

1. connect your phone to your computer

2. go to iTunes

3. Click on the iPhone device in the upper left-hand corner

4. on the left in the column click on photos

5. uncheck the checked box that says sync photos.

6. The box that pops up click delete all photos and check your phone it will be deleted.

you are done! If you want to make your computer sync your photos again just click the checkbox. If you want it to sync it ASAP after deleting photos make sure you check the sync box and then click syn in the lower right - hand corner.

I hope this helps you🙂

😊

Does this folder of photos still exist on your computer? Can you select Sync Photos From button? Are you using the same computer you synced the photos from?

Hey,

I dunno if you got an answer to this question or not but I had the same issue and found a loop hole.

You need to go back into iTunes and choose the Photos Tab.

Under that, it should give you an option to Sync Photos. When you select that option, it gives you the option to either:

-All folders

-Selected Folders

-Include Videos

I chose the Selected Folders option and chose NONE of the folders that popped up in the box below (so all the boxes were unchecked). Then I hit either Apply or Sync and it took all the picture folders that I had downloaded from my computer off my phone, leaving me just the camera roll and my photo stream.

If you figured this out already, then congrats but if not, it worked for me so it may work for you and you can try it out worst case scenario, someone who will Google it one day and see this and it could help them out).

THANK YOU! I had synced photo albums from a computer I no longer own so choosing sync>Selected Folders>Check none it deleted the albums.

Yay! Glad I was able to help someone! 🙂

OH MY GOD! Thank you very much. It's such a great tips for me. Thank you 😀

I am so very frustrated right now! I read your solution but unfortunately, I cannot check the "selected folders" box - only the All Folders and/or Include Videos boxes. The "selected folders" option is there but it is opaque and I cannot click on it. Any ideas? I hate computers! Thanks!

Hey crbu,

I think I speak for everyone when I say that we ALL have a love/hate relationship with our computers. lol!

For your iTunes, is it the most recent version or the one before that, or earlier?

Also, I tried adding a screen shot to help a bit but there is a reflection of the love/hate relationship happening from my computer to me. 😉

Under the Photos tab, where it gives you the option for:

Sync Photos From (should be like the first thing you see on that screen; left hand side)

is there a drop down menu there that gives you the option of Pictures or Choose folder?

If not, this could potentially be the problem and you may have to uninstall and reinstall iTunes (I may be wrong with that doing that but honestly, that's what I would do), and see if that changes anything. If not, then you may need to contact Apple on this one, just cause it should give you the option to at least choose syncing either pictures or from a specific folder.

I hope that helps in some way.

If not, and you are able to find another way, make sure to update us here so we know what to do when that happens to us (cause odds are it will; lol).

Good luck!

Thanks for taking the time to respond. While I was waiting for your reply, I went to youtube and saw a video that somewhat led me to try this solution (the folder used in the instructional video contained 1 photo, my folder contained 56 photos, but I used the same principle that he did with folder containing one photo): I went to the folder on my PC and opened it, and then deleted the contents. However, I deleted the folder I had created in iTunes, not the original folder on my PC (which contained the identical photos). Then I instructed iTunes to sync with that [empty] folder (it read "0 photos"). Then, magically, that album on my iPhone disappeared. It may have been pure luck that it worked, but thankfully it's done. I can't tell you the hours invested trying to figure this out. Hope this helps someone, and thanks again for your feedback. It encouraged me!

Thanks for responding and letting us know.

Do you happen to have a link to the YouTube video you saw? Just in case someone else isn't sure of how or where to find it.

Glad you were able to find a solution though. 🙂

Finally! I tried a whole bunch of different options from other posts but this is the only one that worked. Thank you!!!!

Hi, I am such a non-technical person (to put it mildly) I don't know how to add the link to the video to this reply. How about this? I copied this from youtube :-).

Again I appreciate all the support. I've never sought help online like this before and it certainly helped.

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