Deleting all photos from iPhone 6?

I struggled for ages to find a way to delete photos from the cameras Camera Roll without having to go through itunes or deleting each photo one at a time.

Doing it one at atime can take ages if like me you had let them build up.

Finall found you can select several then delete all together.

1) Enter Photos app

2) Select Camera Roll in Albums

3) Rather than tapping each photo individually tap select at top right.

4) tap to select the thumbnail of which pictures you want to delete

5) then hit waste bin bottom right

6) This transfers the selected photos to the recently deleted folder in Albums

7) Enter Recenlty deleted album

8) tap select at top right again

9) tap select at top right again to select the photos to be deleted

10) tap Delete at bottom left

this should delete all unwanted photos permanentaly

Thanks. I've been trying to figure out how to do this for years now.

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After you tap "select" in the upper right, you may tap and hold on one photo and drag your finger across and down and it will select lots at one time.

Many thanks Meggied 227-That did the trick,saved 650 ish photos to external Hard Drive and cleaned up the iPhone.

I tried the iPhone delete option - but - it was greyed out for me and the drag also was disabled, so I devised another method. This also deletes any files that the iPhone can't see but which result in the 9905 import error when I tried to import them normally.

METHOD:- Step One - clean out Iphone.

I renamed my iphoto library so that it could not be seen by the 'Photos' app - and then started the Photos app. It asks for me to find or create a new library. I created a new one. Then, I downloaded all my photos and videos with the DELETE from iphone option ticked. Downloading to a new, empty library fixed it for me.

Step Two - get all data in to mast library

I wanted these photo in my old library - so.. I renamed the new library - so that 'Photos' wouldn't see it, and restored the name of my master library so that 'Photos' could see it again.

Then, I right clicked on the new - renamed and thus invisible to Photos library and viewed the package contents. I dug down the nested directories until I found the one with the newly downloaded data (photos and videos and bursts and slow-mos and imported it to my master library.

I did the import by selecting 'Import' from the 'Photos' file menu at the top of the screen and dragged the directory in to the select window. It took some time, but no duplicates were loaded and all missing data was imported. I then trashed the renamed temporary library.

Job done.

Took me ages to work that one out.

Hope it helps !

Hi everyone,

I managed to delete all photos from iPhone through Image capture.

It's true that they got rid of delete icon but that's only because your iPhone is syncing photos to iCloud (in this case you may see a cloud icon in Image capture next to your iPhone icon in the top left corner).

What you need to do is to go first to Settings - iCloud - Photos and turn off iCloud photo Library and My photo Stream (of course after copying your photos to Photo app).

After that you need to reconnect your iPhone to a Mac and go to image capture again - the delete icon has appeared on the bottom.

After deleting your pictures from iPhone you may still go and turn on the photos to the iCloud where you previously turned them off.

Apple doesn't make our lives easier but hope it will help.

Anton

Make sure your iphone is plugged into your PC (MAC) USB, In Windows Exploter, select your iphone from either the Portable Devices list (win 10) or as a storage device. Navigate through the DCIM* folders and delete the photos via the browser. They will be gone from the iphone.

You may not know that simple deletion doesn't erase photos from your iPhone permanently, so you have to use professional iPhone data wiper app to delete your photos.

http://www.safewiper.com/

You are my hero - thank you for this Upstate_Chris!!!!

"I had a similar issue.

On iOS 8+ if you sync with iCloud, your Mac or other external source than the trick with Image Capture will not work. I had over 2,000 photos on my brand new iPhone 6+ sync'd with my Mac and in Image Capture there with exactly zero images that showed up. I unchecked the sync option in iTunes for photos, tried to sync with iCloud, etc. The phone was not letting me manually deleted the images (which would have taken days anyhow). Nothing worked, the photos were stuck.

The WORKING solution was to create an empty folder (I made one named TEMP on my MacBook desktop). Plug your iPhone in to your laptop and launch iTunes. Select your device and go to Photos. Click the check box to Sync photos from and in the dropdown select Choose Folder and select your empty temp folder. Apply and sync. This instantly erased every picture I had on the iPhone.

Since I am not a fan of the Moments or Albums view Apple uses for iCloud/iPhoto sync, I created a local folder named Photos and then created individual folders inside of there (do not go more than 1 deep) and sorted my picture manually. The sub-folders are things like, "Cars", "People", "Beer" or whatever - and when you sync with your iPhone it keeps these folders to sort how you want them sorted - not how Apple likes them (by geotag or date).

If this trick works for you, please pass it on to someone that has the same problem. If it doesn't work for you, sorry...try Google...but please don't let me know as I am not affiliated with Apple in any way and will probably never check this thread again in my lifetime."

I cannot believe this is what one must do in order to delete batches of photos now. *tap tap tap*

Thank you very much for this.