Comments on: How to: Delete all photos off an iPhone

By: DavidGlover

DavidGlover — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:00:07 +0000

You win the prize - excellent explanation!

By: Annamaria

Annamaria — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:54:11 +0000

Thank you, this was a great quick way to delete my photos.

By: stevelucky

stevelucky — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:14:26 +0000

it sounds like you guys just need to adjust your line of thinking. an easier way to do it is to think if your camera roll as an inbox that you want to constantly keep empty. import the photos into iphoto every time and delete them from the camera. if you want them to sync back to the camera, just create a smart album within iphoto. make one condition, “camera model is apple iphone”. this will create a new smart album with all of the photos that you’ve taken with your iphone. now adjust your sync settings to keep thyis folder synced with your iphone. now, every time you import new photos, it will delete them form your iphone, and synced back via the smart album. this keeps your camera roll empty, but you still have your new photos. you can delete the photo(s) that you don’t want from your iphoto library, and they will be removed from your phone. does that suit your needs?

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:09:44 +0000

Delete in all Camera Roll photos in Windows

When you plug an iphone into a Windows PC, a IPhone drive is created for which the only contents are the iphone camera photo roll - you can copy and paste from here and also delete all photos.

By: Colin Devroe

Colin Devroe — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:48:53 +0000

Celeste: It sounds like you have iTunes setup to sync your photos to your phone. Simply open iTunes, go to the Photos tab (when your iPhone is connected) and only select the albums that you want to have up-to-date upon sync.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:34:20 +0000

Colin, your method sounds great… but when I went to use it Image Capture said I didn’t have any photos to download.

The problem is that I’ve already managed to delete the camera roll when I downloaded it to my Mac. However, when I synced my iPhone it copied all the photos in iPhoto over to my iPhone into two different directories which cannot be deleted even one photo at a time. There’s no icon to delete when I open individual photos in these directories.

Help?

By: Dunc

Dunc — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:34:48 +0000

It is AMAZING that there even needs to be posted solution for this. I love this phone but Apple’s insistence on doing everything THEIR WAY is unbelievable. The simplest, cheapest, most rubbish phones / digital cameras out there can be accessed by usb and photos can be removed/deleted like any other file. Why do they have to be SO DIFFICULT! ARgh! Watch out Apple, you’re heading to be the next Microsoft.

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By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:45:54 +0000

Thanks! Best solution of them all

By: Elizabeth Harper

Elizabeth Harper — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:44:03 +0000

Thanks so much! You saved me a lot of time and energy.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:59:09 +0000

can this be done with a pc with vista

By: Colin Devroe

Colin Devroe — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:39:56 +0000

Dhillon: Are you asking on a Windows computer? I am not sure what that procedure is. Maybe someone else can help?

By: Dhillon

Dhillon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:42:33 +0000

hi
i really apprecitae and thank you.
but this doesnot solve my problem . idont have macintosh .

how can i delete aal my pics in iphone. every time i sync it with my laptop, the photos in photo library get copied to iphone. please help

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:07:13 +0000

Thanks! I’d been deleting photos individually and I appreciate this quick and easy tip to get rid of all the photos at once. I followed your instructions and it worked like a charm!

By: Chris Balton

Chris Balton — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:30:14 +0000

Great EASY solution, works fast !!
Thanks
cb

By: Colin Devroe

Colin Devroe — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:08:22 +0000

Peter Kure: Just adjust your Address book on your computer and have iTunes overwrite the information. You can do this in iTunes under the “Info” tab for your iPhone.

By: Peter Kure

Peter Kure — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:24:13 +0000

Thanks for the info. Now all I need is a similar process to delete all the 600 contacts I accidentally synched with my gmail account and cant get rid of unless I delete them one by one. I find it funny they designed the iphone this way.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:58:08 +0000

Yeah this is a good solution. It has been such a pain managing photos on my iphone.

By: Lon

Lon — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:59:27 +0000

Thanks so much for this! This is by far the easiest example I was able to google, wew.

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:15:26 +0000

thank you so much for this info, though I was going to be stuck with a load of junk pics that had synced themselves onto my iphone!