Bulk Deleting ALL Photos from iPhone

If you have a Windows PC, connect your phone and you can view the raw photo files in File Explorer by selecting your iPhone in the sidebar. Drill down into each folder until you see the individual photo files and hit Ctrl + A (select all) and Delete. Gone for ever! Thus the fastest, easiest way to mass delete photos from your iPhone is by using a PC!

It worked for my iPhone, but not for my iPad. Weird, I can't find the difference. And now with either device, when I select a photo or photos on either iDevice, the trash can is grayed out, so I can't delete.

But hang on! The phone tells me that these photos "will be deleted from iCloud Photo Library on all your devices". Firstly, iCloud is not on my devices, it's in the iCloud, and secondly, does it actually mean that my photos will be permanently wiped?

Yours puzzled

go into 'collections' then 'moments', hit the select button and a select icon will appear next to each group of photos (grouped by date), touch select again and all photos in that group are selected and can then be deleted

You can select one, and drag it to select multiple photos with just that gesture, i've deleted more than 100 photos in 5 seconds with this method.

Make sure you check recently deleted too.

This does not work. "You do not have permission to delete this file."

Brilliant!!! Thank you so much as it literally took less than a minute to delete the photos I had already imported.

The best😉 solution so far🙂

worked! u genius! thanks

You are the champ.

Thankyou, I did as you said, swiped across and then up all the way and it ticked thousands of photos and I then deleted.

Thanks again.

Image Capture only sees photos I haven't yet put into Photos on my Mac, it doesn't see any of the photos that were synchronized from Photos to my iDevices via iTunes.

That did it! Thanks! I was able to synchronize to a folder and delete the photo and have no pictures on my iPhone's photo library. Then I went back to my Mac's Photos app.

Tha

Not true for me - Image capture shows the phone as empty (which it should be - I transferred everything to iCloud).

But the phone still has 700 photos on it again.