how do i delete "moments" off my photos?

I was having the same issue. The problem with this reply is that the photos don't appear anywhere else in Photos (not in albums, recently deleted, or anywhere). I solved the problem in the following way:

1. Connect the phone to your computer

2. open up itunes

3. select iPhone icon in iTunes

4. select "Photos" on the left pane

5. click "Sync Photos" and "Selected albums" but don't select any albums

6. Apply

7. Let the iPhone sync

8. Then uncheck "Sync Photos"

9. Let the iPhone sync again.

After that, the mysterious "moments" and "collections" disappeared. I think they were "out of sync" somehow. I hope this solution works for you as it did for me.

All of these replies are terrible. 😐

Try this:

1. Start from the homescreen of your Iphone/pod (for dummies: where all of your "apps" are).

2. Look for an app on your homescreen titled "Photos", when you find it - Click it.

3. When the app opens, go ahead and look towards the bottom of your phonescreen.

You should see a navigation with three different options;

"Photos", "Shared" & "Albums"; Why don't you just go ahead and click on "Albums", there we go - Very nice!

4. On the next screen that appears, it should display your different albums.

Look for "Recently Deleted", and when you find it - Click on it.

It should be on that list somewhere (or there's a problem!).

5. Now you should see a screen displaying all of the recent photos you've deleted.

The term we know as "recent" to iOS is thirty days (that's 720 hours in people-time!).

You will have to click to each individual photo, however at the bottom left-hand cornor of every photo take notice of the 'Delete' option.

You're welcome. 😉

This worked!! I don't have much storage on my phone, and I had 2 gigs of photos I couldn't seem to delete stuck on my phone for months. I can finally sync them onto my computer and free up a bunch of space on my phone. Thank you so much for sharing!

Hey elliefro,

Thanks for the question. Photos automatically organizes your photos and videos by year, by collection, and by moment. This is merely a way to organize your photos, and is not taking up any extra space. However, if you wish to delete specific photos, you can tap on Albums > Camera Roll and delete them from there.

For more information, see the following:

View photos and videos - iPhone

http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/#/iph3d267610

Organize your photos and videos - iPhone

http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/#/iphf14943e

Thanks,

Matt M.

Hi Matt,

But that moments folder still shows those deleted photos by year and collections! It does not give option to delete at all. Any solution?

thanks|Channa

Ok, I have seen this post million times in various forums without the answer.

what being asked is not how to delete photos from camera roll, we get that select trash icon etc but how to delete collections which do not appear iniPhoto when synced with iTunes etc, but are still on the IPhone, right?

So here is how I successfully did it To remove photo library where collections/ moments are stored.

launch iexplorer app, it may have a small purchasing fee if you don't have it on your mac.

I'm pretty sure your problem is that the pictures are synced to your iTunes. I've got a different Iphone (5) and I don't update my iTunes so we've probably got different versions, but I think what I did should work for everyone. First plug your Iphone into your computer so it shows up as a "device" in iTunes. Click on the device and towards the top of the screen there should be a bunch of tabs you can go to (e.g. Info, Apps, Movies, etc.). I clicked on the Photos tab and just unchecked the sync option, which got rid of the moments.

Just be careful because when I did the unsync I'm pretty sure iTunes tried to copy all my apps over to my computer or something. I think I was lucky and just got an error message because I'd disabled the iTunes Store. I'd suggest disabling the Store before you do this, and then re-enabling it after, or just not caring because it probably isn't that big a deal anyways and you can just delete any new files later on.

Hope this helps everyone.

I'm having a similar issue

I bought a new iPhone and set up my current apple id on it and photos appeared in my moments which I'm 100% certain I'd deleted on my old phone - they definitely shouldn't have been in my icloud because it hasn't been set to back up photos. I also logged into my icloud and it says my icloud drive and icloud photo drives are empty, so why have old photos appeared on my new iPhone? Doesn't make any sense. Please advise.

Thanks Todd! Worked perfectly!

Does this process work on an iPad2? I'm going to try it this weekend. Fingers crossed! I need more space too...