How To Delete Camera Roll Photos from iPhone
How To Delete Camera Roll Photos from iPhone
figuring out a way to delete / remove iPhone camera pictures from your iPhone (on a Mac) regardless of whether or not they have been imported into iPhoto.
It seems that iPhoto ‘08 (7.1.1) cannot do it —this is a weakness of iPhoto. Use IMAGE CAPTURE application, not iPhoto.
Quit iPhoto. Open Image Capture and choose the “Download Some…” option. You will then see all of your pictures stored in the Camera Roll on the iPhone. Select one or a range or even all of the photos you wish to remove, and choose Edit -> Delete. The selected photo(s) will be removed from the iPhone.
If you want to see something fun, with your iPhone plugged into your Mac, go look at the Camera Roll of pictures on the phone itself. Use the thumbnail index view. Then, when you use Image Capture.app to delete the pictures, you see them disappear one by one very quickly from the iPhone screen. other useful iphone tips
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hi,
so, you cannot delete a photograph just from the phone? it has to be connected to a computer?
you can delete the photos, one by one, on the iphone. if you want to delete many at a time this is the best method.
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Great tip. This is one of those things that’s been bugging me forever..and accordingly, my camera roll has just continued to get more and more cumbersome.
It’d be great if they’d fix iPhoto, but this works flawlessly for now. Thanks a ton.
Great tip! thanks alot
Yeah!
Thanks a lot for the Image Capture Tip.
You CAN delete all the iPhone photos at once.
I’d been all over iTunes and iPhoto and the iPhone, I could not believe that NONE of these allow you to delete more than a picture at a time, WHEW!
Thank you for the tip. Apple is really pressing their luck that their brand has been covering for their
shortcomings in countless areas. If they want to be perceived as being a premium company then they should
cover all the angles on things like this.
thank you very much for this tip, I was struggling to find out how.
THANK YOU! I was struggling to figure this out for a while. I can’t believe that iPhoto can’t do this! It’s ridiculous!!!
This procedure worked for me on my iPhone 3G,but all photo features crash now.
I removed all pictures from my cameral roll…cool.Now, I have no access to my pictures or programs on the iPhone.They (camera and photos) crash whenever I try to open them.
Image Capture did something to camera roll.Via iTunes I can still see my albums ,but not on the Iphone
Hope all this is clear and if someone has some feedback.
BTW, this the only way to remove picture from the iPhone “camera roll”
OMG THANK U SO MUCH! every month i add pix to my iphoto, but dont delete.. and dont reimport duplicates. so when i clicked “delete after importing” it only deleted a few….
this helped so much!! thank you!!
Hmm. I am looking for a way to delete the pics I uploaded to iPhone. Is there any way of doing this?
THANK YOU!
Apparently I downloaded too big of a file so my phone locked up every time I scrolled across this photo. I couldn’t even click on it and then hit the trash button to delete it out of the phone. I went through every program trying to find a way to delete it without needing to go to the camera roll on the phone, which as I said would lock up my phone!!
FINALLY! I got rid of the problem photo!
You are a phone saver!!!!
Not being able to mass delete photos I’ve already imported into iPhoto (or otherwise) has been bugging me since I got the iPhone. Thanks for this awesome tip!
Via the iPhone (3G) how do I create a new “folder”? Once, created how do I add new images? I read a post where it was indicated that there was a ‘+’ to great new folders.0
free stay white right red
Help the image capture worked for one roll on my iphone but not the next? how do I delete the next roll???
thanks
where is IMAGE CAPTURE ? I can’t find it. Using Win and itunes.
Please help.
When you mention applications, for those not “i” pinheads, you should let us know what you’re talking about…
The only apps on the iphone for pictures are “Photos” and “Camera”. Are the apps you mention loaded up or Iphone defaults?
to access image capture, go to the help screen and type in image capture. there will be an option on there to access it. I don’t know of another way than that.
thank you a lot. this was bugging me for quite some time!
Yes, but what if I connect my iPhone to a Windows PC??? I have the same problem and want to delete all those no-good pictures in thew camera roll. what a clunky interface!!!
i using a pc also
how do do this?
you do do
hi, my iphone is capturing pics but it is not keeping them in the Camera roll, when i need to check the pics i find only empty frame, when i press it it goes back to iphone main screen. and the the picture folder is always empty. can any body help please.
Yes, I got a similar problem as Mohamad. I downloaded the Snapture App from Cydia, but I found that the pictures that I took at there couldn’t be deleted!!! All the pix saved to the Camera Roll folder. Then, I immediately deleted the Snapture App and used back the normal camera app that came with the iphone, but no pics that were taken by normal camera were found in the Camera Roll. So now I end up having no camera function since I couldn’t find where the pics store at. NEED HELP PLEASE!
I have the same problem as Kitty. need help aswell. I keep deleting the same three photos taken with Snapture, and they keep coming back!!!!!!!
I think its a folder location issue, as when I keep taken pictures with Camera (default app with iphone) the thumbnail next to the word camera roll in the photo albums menu shows the photo i took with camera, but when you click on camera roll, it still shows the same 3 pics from snapture, plus blank sqaures equaling the number of photos i’ve just taken with camera! Please help.
I’m running 2.2.1.
I’m having the same problems as the previous few posts, need help! this is really annoying
Ok here’s the initial solution to getting your camera pics storing again.
Firstly I installed ‘finder’ - a program on the iphone which lets you browse the iphone’s files and folders.
Go to the following folder;
/media/DCIM
or
var/root/media/DCIM if your not using ‘finder’.
You’ll see a folder named 100APPLE, this folder contains the pictures taken using snapture. Delete this folder. then take pics using the standard camera program and they should save as normal.
I haven’t retried snapture as yet.
R,
That worked for me. Thanks for the tip. It looks to me like now I can use either the camera app or snapture now and both show in the camera roll and delete correctly.
I wasn’t able to use Finder for it but “iBrickr” works great! (http://cre.ations.net/creation/ibrickr)
1. I went into “Files” in the main menu.
2. On the side phone went to the folder:
/private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE/
3. Then I just deleted the photos set by Snapture one by one.
For non-Mac users…
1. Connect the iPhone to the computer
2. Launch Microsoft Camera & Scanner Wizard
3. Select the photos you want to copy to your computer, click “continue”
4. Check “delete photos from device after copy”
5. Click “Next” and after the photos are copied they are deleted from the Camera Roll
I just removed 420 images from my camera roll this way. No problems with the iPhone afterward - all seems to work fine.
Thanks for the tip, works great… Why iPhoto or Aperture can not do this is beyond me!
Thanks for this. It’s almost funny that something like this is so broken and iPhoto can’t do it. The image capture method is a good work around.
Awesome tip. Thanks for your help!
Obrigado R, pela dica!
Resolveu meu problema!
Instalei o Snapture em Japonês e baixei fotos no rolo, depois desinstalei e a camera original funcionou novamente.
Valeu!…
wtf. this doesn’t work.
it used to, but the damn update screwed with something and now it resets instead of deleting the pictures. i’m not going to sit and delete 150+ images by hand.
fucking apple. and they want me to buy one of their computers? yeah, right. i’ll stick with ubuntu and windows 7.
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Does this also work if you are using a pc? If not how can you delete camera roll pictures after they have been uploaded to computer?
I connected my iphone to computer and deleted all the folders which contain camera roll photographs.
now the problem is that there is no folder to save if i capture any new photo from my camera. even when i connect my iphone to computer now ,it is not even giving the icon to open iphone. Please revert back.its urgent.
Re: Windows and managing “Camera Roll” photos (deleting a few/many at a time, copying) you can go into “My Computer” and open the device. You should be able to manipulate the files from there.
mados123 is correct….
go into “My Computer” and open the device. You should be able to manipulate the files from there.
derDon’t delete the actual folder, delete the files inside the folder
Thanks! Deleting 60 Photos per Hand on the Iphone would be really a pain in the ass…
Great Tip!
hey evry1 im in sum serious need of help,i cnt delete my camera roll photos off my pohne,i can delete em but wen i click bk onto photo theres still there,i wanna delete em permanantly but i dont no how,i dnt hav mac n iv tried usin the microsoft scanner trick but there still there,sum1 please help it wud b very much apprciated
I have a different problem. When I take a picture with IPHONE
it goes into CAMERA ROLL. I don’t sync with
my windows Xp computer because it then considers
my phone a camera. Rather I email the pictures
to myself and then delete from CAMERA ROLL.
Then when I look at CAMERA ROLL there are
NO PICTURES. I then download those pictures
via email to my computer. Since latest upgrade
of phone to 3.1 and ITUNES upgrade my camera
roll has number (2) after it yet when I click on it THERE
ARE NO PICTURES in that album??
Apl-care hasn’t a clue and suggested I either reset all
settings or do RESTORE. I don’t want to do either.
I can still add pics to this roll and delete them
but the (2) persists even though it’s empty.
Any simple fix? Otherwise phone works fine
thanks
Ana March 26th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
hi,
so, you cannot delete a photograph just from the phone? it has to be connected to a computer?
Joe March 30th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
you can delete the photos, one by one, on the iphone. if you want to delete many at a time this is the best method.
wo kann man gratis filme runterladen? April 19th, 2008 at 11:27 am
13 klassik filme runterladen…
wo kann man gratis filme runterladen?…
Tim May 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Great tip. This is one of those things that’s been bugging me forever..and accordingly, my camera roll has just continued to get more and more cumbersome.
It’d be great if they’d fix iPhoto, but this works flawlessly for now. Thanks a ton.
Ken June 7th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Great tip! thanks alot
Adam Eyes July 12th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Yeah!
Thanks a lot for the Image Capture Tip.
You CAN delete all the iPhone photos at once.
I’d been all over iTunes and iPhoto and the iPhone, I could not believe that NONE of these allow you to delete more than a picture at a time, WHEW!
Antonio Guillen July 14th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Thank you for the tip. Apple is really pressing their luck that their brand has been covering for their
shortcomings in countless areas. If they want to be perceived as being a premium company then they should
cover all the angles on things like this.
John July 15th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
thank you very much for this tip, I was struggling to find out how.
thank you, thank you, thank you! July 20th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
THANK YOU! I was struggling to figure this out for a while. I can’t believe that iPhoto can’t do this! It’s ridiculous!!!
John August 4th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
This procedure worked for me on my iPhone 3G,but all photo features crash now.
I removed all pictures from my cameral roll…cool.Now, I have no access to my pictures or programs on the iPhone.They (camera and photos) crash whenever I try to open them.
Image Capture did something to camera roll.Via iTunes I can still see my albums ,but not on the Iphone
Hope all this is clear and if someone has some feedback.
BTW, this the only way to remove picture from the iPhone “camera roll”
sam August 20th, 2008 at 5:12 am
OMG THANK U SO MUCH! every month i add pix to my iphoto, but dont delete.. and dont reimport duplicates. so when i clicked “delete after importing” it only deleted a few….
this helped so much!! thank you!!
Spaz August 21st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Hmm. I am looking for a way to delete the pics I uploaded to iPhone. Is there any way of doing this?
Karen August 22nd, 2008 at 1:59 am
THANK YOU!
Apparently I downloaded too big of a file so my phone locked up every time I scrolled across this photo. I couldn’t even click on it and then hit the trash button to delete it out of the phone. I went through every program trying to find a way to delete it without needing to go to the camera roll on the phone, which as I said would lock up my phone!!
FINALLY! I got rid of the problem photo!
You are a phone saver!!!!
Adam Pieniazek August 25th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Not being able to mass delete photos I’ve already imported into iPhoto (or otherwise) has been bugging me since I got the iPhone. Thanks for this awesome tip!
Guzz September 6th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Via the iPhone (3G) how do I create a new “folder”? Once, created how do I add new images? I read a post where it was indicated that there was a ‘+’ to great new folders.0
cleanmanfree September 7th, 2008 at 12:25 am
free stay white right red
susan September 14th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Help the image capture worked for one roll on my iphone but not the next? how do I delete the next roll???
thanks
Linda October 15th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
where is IMAGE CAPTURE ? I can’t find it. Using Win and itunes.
Please help.
anidiot December 22nd, 2008 at 7:36 pm
When you mention applications, for those not “i” pinheads, you should let us know what you’re talking about…
The only apps on the iphone for pictures are “Photos” and “Camera”. Are the apps you mention loaded up or Iphone defaults?
Jeff January 4th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
to access image capture, go to the help screen and type in image capture. there will be an option on there to access it. I don’t know of another way than that.
cores January 5th, 2009 at 2:59 am
thank you a lot. this was bugging me for quite some time!
Alpha January 12th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Yes, but what if I connect my iPhone to a Windows PC??? I have the same problem and want to delete all those no-good pictures in thew camera roll. what a clunky interface!!!
jtaylor991 January 18th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
i using a pc also
how do do this?
jtaylor991 January 27th, 2009 at 1:21 am
you do do
Mohamad February 23rd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
hi, my iphone is capturing pics but it is not keeping them in the Camera roll, when i need to check the pics i find only empty frame, when i press it it goes back to iphone main screen. and the the picture folder is always empty. can any body help please.
Kitty February 24th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Yes, I got a similar problem as Mohamad. I downloaded the Snapture App from Cydia, but I found that the pictures that I took at there couldn’t be deleted!!! All the pix saved to the Camera Roll folder. Then, I immediately deleted the Snapture App and used back the normal camera app that came with the iphone, but no pics that were taken by normal camera were found in the Camera Roll. So now I end up having no camera function since I couldn’t find where the pics store at. NEED HELP PLEASE!
R February 27th, 2009 at 9:47 am
I have the same problem as Kitty. need help aswell. I keep deleting the same three photos taken with Snapture, and they keep coming back!!!!!!!
I think its a folder location issue, as when I keep taken pictures with Camera (default app with iphone) the thumbnail next to the word camera roll in the photo albums menu shows the photo i took with camera, but when you click on camera roll, it still shows the same 3 pics from snapture, plus blank sqaures equaling the number of photos i’ve just taken with camera! Please help.
I’m running 2.2.1.
Mark February 27th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I’m having the same problems as the previous few posts, need help! this is really annoying
R February 27th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Ok here’s the initial solution to getting your camera pics storing again.
Firstly I installed ‘finder’ - a program on the iphone which lets you browse the iphone’s files and folders.
Go to the following folder;
/media/DCIM
or
var/root/media/DCIM if your not using ‘finder’.
You’ll see a folder named 100APPLE, this folder contains the pictures taken using snapture. Delete this folder. then take pics using the standard camera program and they should save as normal.
I haven’t retried snapture as yet.
N March 13th, 2009 at 11:10 am
R,
That worked for me. Thanks for the tip. It looks to me like now I can use either the camera app or snapture now and both show in the camera roll and delete correctly.
Td9 March 20th, 2009 at 9:58 am
I wasn’t able to use Finder for it but “iBrickr” works great! (http://cre.ations.net/creation/ibrickr)
1. I went into “Files” in the main menu.
2. On the side phone went to the folder:
/private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE/
3. Then I just deleted the photos set by Snapture one by one.
Berry March 30th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
For non-Mac users…
1. Connect the iPhone to the computer
2. Launch Microsoft Camera & Scanner Wizard
3. Select the photos you want to copy to your computer, click “continue”
4. Check “delete photos from device after copy”
5. Click “Next” and after the photos are copied they are deleted from the Camera Roll
I just removed 420 images from my camera roll this way. No problems with the iPhone afterward - all seems to work fine.
Roy March 31st, 2009 at 11:40 am
Thanks for the tip, works great… Why iPhoto or Aperture can not do this is beyond me!
Josh April 4th, 2009 at 4:11 am
Thanks for this. It’s almost funny that something like this is so broken and iPhoto can’t do it. The image capture method is a good work around.
Justin April 13th, 2009 at 2:30 am
Awesome tip. Thanks for your help!
Helio April 15th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Obrigado R, pela dica!
Resolveu meu problema!
Instalei o Snapture em Japonês e baixei fotos no rolo, depois desinstalei e a camera original funcionou novamente.
Valeu!…
applesucks April 21st, 2009 at 7:29 am
wtf. this doesn’t work.
it used to, but the damn update screwed with something and now it resets instead of deleting the pictures. i’m not going to sit and delete 150+ images by hand.
fucking apple. and they want me to buy one of their computers? yeah, right. i’ll stick with ubuntu and windows 7.
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jordan June 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Does this also work if you are using a pc? If not how can you delete camera roll pictures after they have been uploaded to computer?
Shilpa June 19th, 2009 at 4:19 am
I connected my iphone to computer and deleted all the folders which contain camera roll photographs.
now the problem is that there is no folder to save if i capture any new photo from my camera. even when i connect my iphone to computer now ,it is not even giving the icon to open iphone. Please revert back.its urgent.
mados123 June 22nd, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Re: Windows and managing “Camera Roll” photos (deleting a few/many at a time, copying) you can go into “My Computer” and open the device. You should be able to manipulate the files from there.
bECARONI July 1st, 2009 at 12:34 am
mados123 is correct….
go into “My Computer” and open the device. You should be able to manipulate the files from there.
derDon’t delete the actual folder, delete the files inside the folder
Martin August 21st, 2009 at 9:29 am
Thanks! Deleting 60 Photos per Hand on the Iphone would be really a pain in the ass…
Great Tip!
james August 28th, 2009 at 9:28 am
hey evry1 im in sum serious need of help,i cnt delete my camera roll photos off my pohne,i can delete em but wen i click bk onto photo theres still there,i wanna delete em permanantly but i dont no how,i dnt hav mac n iv tried usin the microsoft scanner trick but there still there,sum1 please help it wud b very much apprciated
JERROLD SHARKEY September 14th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
I have a different problem. When I take a picture with IPHONE
it goes into CAMERA ROLL. I don’t sync with
my windows Xp computer because it then considers
my phone a camera. Rather I email the pictures
to myself and then delete from CAMERA ROLL.
Then when I look at CAMERA ROLL there are
NO PICTURES. I then download those pictures
via email to my computer. Since latest upgrade
of phone to 3.1 and ITUNES upgrade my camera
roll has number (2) after it yet when I click on it THERE
ARE NO PICTURES in that album??
Apl-care hasn’t a clue and suggested I either reset all
settings or do RESTORE. I don’t want to do either.
I can still add pics to this roll and delete them
but the (2) persists even though it’s empty.
Any simple fix? Otherwise phone works fine
thanks. Please email me with solution at.
urologyhealth@yahoo.com
[...] H/T to FreeiPhoner for this tip. [...]
Find PHOTOS icon, then tap it. Photo Album page should appear. Tap on Camera Roll. Tap on photo to be removed, then tap the little garbage can icon. You’re done.
THANK YOU!
Perfect solution.