Bulk Deleting ALL Photos from iPhone

Assuming the photos are in the camera roll (synced photos have to be unsynced using iTunes in order to delete them), launch the Photos app. Open the Camera roll album. While in thumbnail view, tap Select in the upper right corner. Tap on the bottom left photo to select it. Then swipe across each row of photos to select an entire row at a time. You can also swipe across and up the right side, but I have better success swiping one row at a time.

After all of the photos have been selected that you want to delete, tap the trash can icon.

Image Capture, a built in utility on MacOS does this in two clicks,

Fire it up, click on your iPhone under devices, select all photos in the right hand pane, and hit the 'No Entry' Symbol at the bottom.

Job done!

Currently using iOS 10 now.

go to photos app, in album, select 1 leftest photo (using select button -top right) then drag all the way to rightest photo then drag your finger to down (to "add to" command).

i'm using this method to delete 1553 photos under 1 minute.

don't forget to delete again on "deleted photos"

sorry for my bad english.

Nonsense. Do you not understand what "ALL" photos means? Well, I think you do.

The correct answer is: you cannot! Not with out a factory reset. And then set up as a new phone.

This is the most pathetic aspect of iOS and, most recently, MacOS also.

Oh, Apple's photography prowess...

I just read a 20 page How-To about the same problem. It described appr. 20 ways to delete some ⚠

photos...

Why waste people's time?

Just say: no, ALL photos cannot be deleted in iOS in ONE go - NOT in the way you can on Windows, Blackberry, Android, Symbian, S60, S30, S40, WebOS, Maemo, MeeGo, Linux, Debian, Java, Brew, PalmOS oh and whatever else.... Because: those OSs all had it wrong. Yep!

Apple has only gone down the tube in its quality and user-friendliness. I can't bulk delete my photos. I follow instructions I can find on many of these mac sites but most of them seem to address only for older IOS.

Is this way of Apple to force people buy more storage? Now I can't put anything past these big tech companies. There is no real innovation but just these BS tactics. Both MSFT and AAPL are racing to the bottom.

I wish I could tell you I figured a way out but I have a number of photos I want to delete in bulk but I don't have a good solution so far. So, I am deleting in small batches as fast as possible 😟

pjbarbour wrote:

This is nearly enough for me to leave Apple. This is INCREDIBLY complicated. I've spend 1/2 hour scouring the internet for this answer. I don't want to hit select 150 times. I want to just DELETE ALL photos from my iPhone. Could there possibly be an easy answer Apple? I've tried Image Capture, I've tried Apple Photos, I've tried using the iPhone. No answers. You all seriously need to go back to the drawing board on this. My 64GB iPhone 6 is full, my photos are backed up to my MacBook. I JUST WANT TO DELETE THE DARN PHOTOS OFF OF THE IPHONE IN ONE STEP!!!! I'm on iOS 9.3.4.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

when you plug your phone to pc or mac, it will read it as a camera - then from there you can bulk delete.

Thats fine if you have a mac, but I have Windows 10. Not everyone who has an iPhone or iPad can afford a Mac as well. I have the same problem with photos & how to batch delete them Of my iPad Air 2.

I dont' have any 'No Entry' Symbol button at the bottom, why you make this so difficult are you crazy? can't wait to dump this stupid iphone they gave me for work, I want my freedom.

Have the same problem here. Driving me nuts. Why so difficult Apple? If I want to delete I want to delete, not to roam the internet for 60 minutes looking for answers-how-to-delete.

Well, I tried to delete my son's iPhone manually, in the end took the above method which worked: selecting everything in Camera Roll, then hitting the trashcan. But: afterwards, there was no extra space on iPhone. Why? There is an album "Recently Deleted" that still has all those images, and I need to manually select all items again in order to permanently delete them...

In the end, I just manually selected each item to be "permanently deleted", but would rather get rid of the whole iPhone itself.

Just add: select all and a trashcan in Photos, and I am happy. It can't be that difficult.

It made me leave iOS. Still using MacOS, but when I realised after ca. iOS8 that it

is actually more convenient to manage an Android, BB, or Windows Mobile device on a MacOS

machine than it is to manage one of Apple's own products, I just gave up.

Sad. But hey - it's just a phone

The closest you get as far as I know? Create a folder on you PC or Mac with just 1 photo.

Then connect your iPhone or iPad. to iTunes. On the Sync Photos page in iTunes, tick "sync from selected folders" only!

Pick that folder with the 1 Photo. Then click "Apply" in bottom right corner... Now all photos except for those

in your camera roll will be removed...and other than that you'll only have that 1 photo to deal with.

The camera roll pics can be deleted the old-fashioned way or, if you have a Mac, do it via the Image Capture App on your Mac.

Correct me, but Image Capture does NOT do that for images imported from folders etc.... - not on my Air and Pro on Sierra. When I add photos to my iPhone/iPad to later upload them later to social media - those images cannot be deleted in Image Capture - nor on the device/s.... ***rubbing my eyes*** ...

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