how do i delete all photos off my iPhone?

So I ran out of storage space on my phone. When I go to Settings>General>iPhone Storage, my Music and Photos app takes half of the storage. I sync frequently on my computer and I don't use iCloud for music and photos (when Apple lets me avoid doing so for both), so all my music and photos are on my computer and it's fine to delete all of that data from my phone.


When I click on "Music", I can delete the entire app and data - Great - Many gigs recovered! But when I click on "Photos", I cannot delete anything - Why the H not? When I open the Photos app, I can delete a photo one at a time - Fine. But I want to select ~all~ of them and delete them in one stroke, like I just did all my music - This I cannot easily do. Matter of fact, I can't figure out how to do it at all. Can someone explain how on the iPhone itself to delete all of the photos without selecting them one at a time? There are just too many to manually do this. Please tell me there is an easy way to do this without having to 1) sync the phone; and 2) erasing the phone - Please. I know for a fact that using computer-sync to remove music and photos is not always complete and some data gets left on the phone, which the computer then doesn't know about and it cannot be removed via computer-sync.


Thank you .. Rob

Mac mini, macOS High Sierra (10.13.5)

Posted on Aug 5, 2018 6:32 PM

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Aug 6, 2018 10:36 PM in response to Robert Greenwade

Any other ways to easy clear out phone pictures in the Photos app without syncing to a computer?

Not if the photos were synced from a computer, they can't be deleted directly in the Photos app, they can only (apart from resetting the phone back to factory defaults) be removed by reconnecting to a computer's iTunes, changing the photo sync selection, and resyncing

Aug 6, 2018 10:19 AM in response to King_Penguin

Thank you King_Penguin. I forgot to mention in my post that I'm not really using Camera Roll in this case, for all of the photos have been synced with a MacMini. So there was literally on 1 pic in Camera Roll but the other 1400 pics were in Photos in various albums and views. Thanks for the tip.


Update: I decided to sync the phone but not check photos so they were all deleted, then I sync'd again and checked photos and they were all restored. So between doing this and the same with music, I saved 4G. I was looking for a solution where I didn't have to phone-computer-sync twice to remove unwanted music and pictures. I was looking for a mass-delete option for photos under Settings similar to what Apple gives to us for music under Settings, and I'm still looking :-)


Any other ways to easy clear out phone pictures in the Photos app without syncing to a computer?

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