why can't I delete some photos from my iphone 5c? There is no trash bin at the bottom of some of the photos so what option do I have to delete these photos?

Hey, I had the same issue, what I did to fix it was create a folder in my pictures album with nothing it and name it something random. I than synced my iPhone with that random album and it than got rid of the old the photos I had synced originally to my iPhone that couldn't be taken off. After that I just un synced it from the random empty folder I made and bam, I had my free space finally! 🙂 Hope that helps! 🙂

To delete photos and/or albums that were copied to your iPhone by syncing with your computer are deleted by doing another sync. start iTunes on the computer and connect your phone. Select your phone in iTunes and select the Photos tab. Then DESELECT the items you no long want on the Phone. Then click on Apply or sync. The photos or albums will be removed from your iPhone but they will remain on your computer.

Photos that have been synced to the phone from the computer with iTunes can only be deleted from the phone by the sync process.

Going to assume those pics were sync to your phone using iTunes which is why there is no trash icon.

You would need to unsync them using iTunes. Do the opposite of this link iTunes: Syncing photos

I tried this, but all my photos remain. Do you know what I am doing wrong?

I have the same issue, syncing does not remove the photos. I'm on a 6 Plus with iOS8.01

Having same problem. when I try to unsync my entire iphoto library using itunes it says i don't have enough space to do this. that makes no sense. I'm trying to unsync and remove them all from my phone so I can have the space. It has failed 50 times and now I can't use my phone because there is no memory on it.

Noyboy89 is right, and I figured out why: when you click on the icon for your iPhone in iTunes, and then click on Photos, you'll see "Sync Photos" and the default in the drop down menu is iPhoto. But if you previously synced photos from your computer to your iPhone from some folder or application other than iPhoto, then syncing with iPhoto won't get rid of the photos on your iPhone that came from somewhere else.

So, if you follow Noyboy's suggestion, then you'll get rid of the photos on the iPhone because you're syncing from a new folder that's got no photos in it.

You guys are great ! it worked 😉

It's actually more involved than any of these posts have mentioned. I just found out the hard way to completely delete photos from the iPhone.

Step 1: Back-up your photos to a computer. Make sure that you have any pictures you want to save already downloaded to iPhoto or some other place. I'm not a huge iPhoto fan, but it was the easiest place to put the pictures from photostream and then move them elsewhere on my computer.

Step 2: Turn off photostream. This deletes any pictures from the photostream on the phone or tablet.

Step 3: Plug the iPhone/iPad into any Mac computer and open the Image Capture app. Now select your device and you see that most of the pictures are in there twice. Now select BOTH COPIES of any that you want to delete and press the delete button on the bottom of the window (it's the red circle with a slash through it). DO NOT SELECT ONE COPY AND LEAVE THE OTHER THINKING THAT IT WILL STAY ON THE DEVICE...ask me why I know.

Step 4: Open iTunes and be pleasantly surprised that the 40000 gigs of space spent on photos has dropped to near zero.

Step 5: Like this post to help bump it to the top and help people clear wasted data from their iPhone/iPad.

njergy wrote:

Step 4: Open iTunes and be pleasantly surprised that the 40000 gigs of space spent on photos has dropped to near zero.

I'd be more pleasantly surprised that I had an iPhone or computer with 40 terabytes of storage capacity.

Ahhh, THANK YOU! I couldn't deselect the albums in iTunes because the folders have been deleted from iPhoto, but your advice worked perfectly!

Thank you! After trying everything I could think of to remove those pictures I found your post and it worked like a charm!

Thank you for this tip - it's removed 4GB of mysterious "other" on my iPhone. No matter how many times I synced the iPhone, with instructions in iTunes to NOT sync photos, photos remained in the library - and I couldn't delete them within the photos app, because they were supposedly there because they'd been synced.

So what I did, following your advice: in iTunes, I turned "Sync Photos" back on, but syncing to just one empty album in iPhoto. I synced photos, and that finally got rid of all the other photos that should have been eliminated long ago. Not only did the "Photos" allocation of memory drop from 3GB to 200MB (which shows something is still wrong, because that's for two photos - and there should be none - and there's no way the photos should be 100MB in size), the "Other" allocation dropped from 6GB to 2GB.

Now I just hope the change sticks. That "Other" has a habit of creeping up.