How do I mass delete photos in iOS 8

In the Moments view you can select complete Moments to delete them, not only individual photos.

http://help.apple.com/ipad/8/#/iPad99c6ec9e

Open the "Photos" tab, navigate to "Moments", click "Select" in the upper right corner.

Then click "Select" besides each moment and finally the Trash icon.

Don't forget to empty the "Recently deleted" album, or the photos will stay on the iPad.

Or connect your iPhone to your Mac with the USB cable and launch Image Capture. In Image Capture you can delete all photos from the Camera Roll of your iPad. Select all photos in Image Capture, then press delete.

The "Photos" view toggles between Years, Collections, Moments, Places.

It is not very intuitive, how it is done, and not documented in the Help. Click the photos strip to switch to the next view, not the date or the pace name. Keep tapping the photo strip until you are seeing "Moments".

In "Moments" View tap "Select" at the top of the screen (besides the looking glass icon for the search field) and then the "Select" text besides the title of the Moment. It should look like this:

And then all photos should be marked at once:

But with thousands of photos connecting to a Mac, if your Desktop is a Mac, and then launching Image Capture and delete all photos this way will be quicker.

I think time has eroded away some of the options. Yosemite 10.10.3 / iOS 8.3 doesn't seem to offer any bulk way of removing photos.

Image Capture just bonks when you hit delete. Dragging all photos to the trash does nothing.

The new Photo app no on Yosemite offers little to nothing in the way of removing images on the iPhone. Typically a import then remove from device option isn't even present.

At one point I had 4.7GB of photos and videos that built up. I could no longer take a photo or a video while on vacation. I started to go in to photos and manually remove them, but this was highly time consuming. I then could do it by moments but again, 3 years, several locations = highly time consuming.

FAIL

It worked for me just now - Image Capture / Yosemite 10.10.3 / iOS 8.3 with an iPad 3rd Generation.

léonie, Really nice answer! But, even though the photos of that "Moment" are all selected, the Trashcan is not active. It is colored gray not blue and does not function

Image capture idea was golden. Taking forever, but nice suggestion.

I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5 and trying to make space for an IOS 9 upgrade on a tiny 16G iPad 4.

The iPad has almost 2G of photos. I had OS X Photos import and delete the images. There's a check-box that says "Delete after importing." I checked it. The photos remained on the iPad, undeleted.

When I connect Image Capture, the program assures me the iPad contains no photos. When I visit the OS 8 Photos app, I see thousands of photos in hundreds of "Moments." When I check under "Usage" I'm shown almost 2G of photos.

Now I've attached Image Capture and I'll just leave it for an hour or so to see if any photos appear. Something tells me it still won't work. It's as if a photo ceases to exist (as far as OS X is concerned) once it is imported.

Thank you so much, yours is the first response I found that actually explained clearly how to do this. I inherited an ipad from another teacher and it still had masses of photos, you have just saved me so much time.

Yes you can do it two different way,

By selecting multiple photos from photo app.

And the second one, Delete all photos for whole month wise, For not to delete all the photos but its tricky way to delete photos carefully. i personally always go with this.