How do I delete all pictures from my iPhone5 (over 2,000) that have already been uploaded to my MacBook?

How did the photos get on the phone? Where are they located? Camera Roll? Photo Stream? Or albums that you sync'd to your device from via iTunes on your computer?

Cheers,

GB

i have this same question. for years i have always said no to delete after importing prompt. I therefore want to get ride of most of the pictures in Camera Roll.

If you said "No" to delete the photos after importing, you will have to Select and Delete them manually.

Cheers,

GB

Same answer as above concerning your Camera Roll photos. You have to select and delete them manually, since they were not deleted when they were imported. As for the Photo Stream, you can turn off Photo Stream under Settings>iCloud>Photos>My Photo Stream. This will delete the Photo Stream from your device. If you turn it back on on the device, then the last month or last 1000 photos (whichever comes first) will reload under the Photo Stream album. If you want those deleted, you would need to also delete those manually.

Cheers,

GB

so as long as i transfer my photos to my mac application photos i can them take them off my camera roll to save space on my phone and then sync with iTunes to get back the ones i want from Photos on my mac. Correct. thanks so much for your help

Yes, that is correct. I used to always say "No" when it asked if I wanted to delete imported photos, and checked to make sure they had all imported before manually deleting them from my device. However, I now have Photo Stream set up on my Mac to automatically import Photo Stream photos, so I feel more comfortable deleting the import photos since now when I import they almost always come up as "duplicates" (which makes sense, since iPhoto is importing my Camera Roll Photos, and Photo Stream (which is basically a copy of my Camera Roll, is also being imported regularly.

Once you delete the photos from your device, you can sync them back via iTunes by selecting the albums or events that you want in the Photos option in iTunes.

Cheers,

GB

Well, just remember that you select the Delete Photo option after you import them to iPhoto. iPhoto will ask if you want to delete them. You also have the option of leaving Photo Stream on, and setting up Photo Stream in iPhoto to automatically import to iPhoto. If you do that, then when you go to import your Camera Roll photos, it will tell you that most (if not all) of them are "Duplicates". Just say "No" to importing the duplicates and then once it it done searching your Camera Roll for photos to import, you can feel safe in saying "Yes" to Delete them from your Phone. Since they all come up as "duplicates" you know that they have been successfully imported already.

Then, when you sync to iTunes you can select specific albums or events to sync back to your phone. Give you a lot of control over what is on your device that way.

Best of luck,

GB

GO into photos app on the phone then go to photos tab at the bottom then select each day at a time. Then after that you can go to recently deleted and Press select then the trash can at the bottom press the trash can then press delete all.

Not seeing that option on my iPhone 5s on iOS 8.3. Can you provide a screenshot showing the "Select All" option?

Cheers,

GB

That way doesn't work on the newer versions 4+ so I updated it.

Again, the only way that I know how to delete photos from the Camera Roll or Photo Stream is to click on the Select option and then to select the photos one by one. You can select all of the individual photos you are going to want to delete before clicking on the Trash can, but I know of no way to do it other than photo by photo. Not sure how you would select "each day"....

Cheers,

GB