i can't delete photos on my iphone from laptop

If you haven't found the answer yet here is what I have for you:

- In your iPhone Settings Turn off the iCloud syncing for your photos (all the things that are under ' Photos' > "My Photo Stream" "iCloud Photot Sharing")

- Then you can go back to your Windows PC and use Windows Explorer and Browse through each one of the iPhone's photo folders and delete any photos / videos that you want to Delete.

*** You can also use the Import Pictures and Videos option and Click on "Import Settings", tell Windows where to put the photos while checking the box that says "Always erase from device after importing" - that will move all the photos and videos from your iPhone and put them where you told it to AND in the same time it will remove them from your phone.

Did you read my previous post?

It looks like you are trying to delete files from your phone using Windows Explorer.

You cannot do this.

Follow the instructions in the article provided by ChitlinsCC here to delete those pictures: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201313

~Lyssa

Did you ever figure this out? I am running into the same issue. I used to be able to delete all my iphone photos directly from windows explorer and I haven't done that in over a year - so probably early 2016 (its now June 2017) and I need to delete about 3000 photos and its not letting me. Very frustrating.

I am not clear about what exactly you are doing - you said " ... it says you do not have permission to delete this items. " - What is " it "? iTunes? What version?

If you are following the instructions in the "Delete" section of this > http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201313 < - you should be in good shape.

Tell us a detailed 'Story' of what you are doing up until the error message, then include the exact words of the message.

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If you're going to turn off your Photo Sharing make sure to Login to iCloud and make sure that ALL the photos and videos on your phone are properly backed up to your iCloud. In my case a month and a half of images and videos were NOT backed up to my iCloud and turning off Photo Sharing would have permanently deleted all of these files.

SO step 1 should be to go into iCloud back-up and click "Back-Up Now" and get everything syncronized to iCloud from your device/phone.

Step 2 is to go into iCloud and make certain that everything is properly backed up. And if everything is back-up then you're all set to go onto step 3

Step 3 is to go into your Photo Sharing, turn it off. Then you can go into your computer and it will allow you to delete all the photos and videos that you wish to delete directly from your computer either by hitting delete, OR by Cutting and Pasting them directly into your computer system.

I have removed photos taken with my iPhone from my iPhone folders on my computer for years. It is only in the last month that it is refusing to let me take them off. I believe it may have something to do with the iCloud storage as a previous person said although I have turned off that setting and still am unable to delete my photos.

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If these are photos taken with the phone, you have to delete them on the phone. Or, if you use a program to import the pictures to your computer, you should get the option to delete them after they're importing.

~Lyssa

sorry Lyssa, took a coffee break while composing. - It never ceases to amaze me how much we are required to 'read minds' here.

buenos dias

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No worries 😉

The Windows folks that post here tend to be accessing their iPhones through Windows Explorer and simply dragging and dropping photos from the iPhone - like you would from a flash drive. They are then unpleasantly surprised to find they can't delete the photos, just copy them.

So I make the assumption that they are proceeding in that fashion and wait to be corrected 🙂

~Lyssa

1. ?
2. What is " IT " ??
3. A picture of the error message is helpful... but you still need to tell us the STORY of what you are doing. You know everything - we know nothing.

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Thanks Daaani. Had this problem too. This worked - previous post that it isn't possible to delete via Windows Explorer is incorrect. Just turn off all photo stream related buttons on phone and you can delete as with any other Windows file.

Thank you so much!

Techies Techies YOUR TOO SMART! The people asking questions on here do not understand your language. Talk OUR language please.

To DELETE YOUR PHOTOS (first make sure they are downloaded to your harddrive) then go into your iphone, turn off Cloud Sharing, then you can delete the photos viola! Turn Cloud Sharing back on if you want to.

How HARD was THAT???????

Come back to the REAL World.