Delete Pictures on an iPhone

This article teaches you how to remove photos from your iPhone.

Steps

Using Your iPhone

  1. Open your iPhone's Photos. It's a white app with a multicolored pinwheel icon that you'll likely find on the Home Screen.
  2. Tap Albums. It's a tab in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
    • If Photos opens to a photo, collection, or memory, first tap the "Back" button in the top left corner of the screen.
  3. Tap the "Camera Roll" album. It's the top-left album on this page. This album is where all of your photos are stored.
    • If your phone has iCloud Photo Library enabled, this album will be called "All Photos" instead.
  4. Tap Select. It's in the top-right corner of the screen.
  5. Tap each photo you wish to delete. Each photo you tap will be selected; you'll see a white checkmark on a blue background appear in the bottom-right corner of the photo's thumbnail.
    • If you want to delete every photo on your iPhone, you can Select All Photos on an iPhone rather than tapping each one individually.
  6. Tap the trash icon. It's in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
  7. Tap Delete [number] Photos. It's a pop-up option at the bottom of the screen. Doing so will remove your selected photos from the "Camera Roll" album (and any other albums they're in) and place them in the "Recently Deleted" album.
    • If you're only deleting one photo, this button will say "Delete Photo" instead.
  8. Tap the "Back" button. It's in the top-left corner of the screen.
  9. Scroll down and tap Recently Deleted. It will be on the right side of the screen. This folder stores all photos and videos that you've deleted in the past 30 days, after which point they are permanently deleted from your iPhone.
  10. Tap Select. This option is in the top-right corner of the screen.
  11. Tap Delete All. It's in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
  12. Tap Delete [number] Photos. It's at the bottom of the screen. Doing so will permanently delete all photos in the "Recently Deleted" folder from your iPhone.
    • If you're only deleting one photo, this button will say "Delete Photo" instead.

Using the Photos App on Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone to your Mac. Do so by plugging your iPhone cable into your phone and then connecting the other end into a USB slot on your Mac.
    • If you have iCloud Photo Library enabled on your iPhone and Mac, all of your iPhone's photos will already be in the Photos app on your Mac.
  2. Open Photos. It's an app that resembles a multicolored pinwheel on a white background. It may be in your Mac dock or you can use Spotlight to search for it.
  3. Click the tab. It's at the top of the Photos window, to the left of the Memories tab.
  4. Hold down ⌘ Command while you click each photo you wish to delete. Doing so will select each photo you click.
    • You can also press ⌘ Command+A to select all photos.
  5. Press the Delete key. This will prompt your Mac to confirm your decision to delete all selected photos.
  6. Click . Clicking this button will remove the photos from your Mac's Photos app and from your iPhone alike.[1]

Using File Explorer on PC

  1. Connect your iPhone to your PC. Do so by plugging the USB end of your iPhone's charger cable into one of the PC's USB ports, and then plugging the charger into your iPhone.
  2. Open My PC. This app's icon resembles a computer monitor. It should be on your desktop, though you can also open it from within the Start menu by clicking the Start icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen and then clicking My PC.
    • On some computers, My PC is called "My Computer" instead.
  3. Double-click [your name]'s iPhone. It will be beneath the "Devices and drives" heading in the middle of the "My PC" window.
    • If you don't see this option, unplug your iPhone and then reattach it to your computer. When a menu asking what you want to do with the phone pops up, click it and then click Open folder to view files.
  4. Double-click Internal Storage. This option is the only folder in the window here.
  5. Double-click DCIM. It's the only folder on this page.
  6. Double-click a folder on this page. There will be several folders here, each named something like "100APPLE", "101APPLE", etc. The higher the number, the more recent the photos in it are.
  7. Select each picture you wish to delete. To do so, hold down Ctrl and click each relevant photo.
    • You can also press Ctrl+A to select all photos in this folder.
  8. Press the Delete key. Doing so will immediately move your selected photos from their pertinent folder to the Recycle Bin.
  9. Click ←. It's near the top-left corner of the "DCIM" window, directly below the "File" option.
  10. Repeat the select and delete process for each folder. Once you're done, you can disconnect your iPhone from your computer. The photos you deleted should all be gone from the Photos app.

Warnings

  • Deleting a photo from the "Photo Stream" album will also remove it from the Photo Stream on other devices such as an iPhone or Mac.

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206186
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