How to Delete All Photos on Your iPhone

With a simple trick, you can delete all of the photos on your iPhone.

• Open the Photos app on your iPhone, select all photos, and then delete them.
• To permanently delete your photos, open the Photos app and navigate to the “Recently Deleted” folder.
• Any photos you delete from your iPhone will be deleted from iCloud as long as iCloud sync is enabled.

In comparison to photos and videos, almost everything else on your iPhone takes up very little space. So, if your phone’s storage space is running low, your photos and videos may be the first to go.

If you need to free up a lot of space quickly, you can delete specific photos and videos, but deleting all of your images at once will free up the most space.

What is the issue? To delete all of your photos at once, Apple does not provide a “select all” option. That means you’ll have to use a little trick.

How to delete all the photos on your iPhone at once

In a hurry, deleting one picture at a time becomes tedious. Thankfully, Apple has made it possible to delete multiple photos and videos from an iPhone at once.

1. On your iPhone, launch the Photos app.
2. In the bottom left corner, tap the Library to see all of your photos.
3. In the top right corner of the screen, tap Select.
4. Lightly tap the very bottom photo, then slide all the way to the left and drag up to the top of the title bar at the top of the screen without lifting your finger. Your finger should land in the upper left corner of the clock. Keep your finger on the screen as the photos are selected as they scroll up – this will take some time, especially if you have a large number of photos on your phone.
   • A quick tip: In the middle of the title bar, you’ll see a running list of how many photos are selected.
5. When you’ve selected all of the photos, tap the trash can icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.
6. Tap Delete ## Items (where ## is the total number of photos you are about to delete) to confirm that you want to delete these photos.

How to Delete All iPhone Photos Permanently

Before proceeding, keep in mind that iCloud photos may be deleted at the same time. If you sync your iPhone’s Photos library to iCloud automatically, the deletions will be replicated in iCloud as well.

At this point, all of your photos on your iPhone have been moved to the “Recently Deleted” folder. If you do nothing else, iOS will delete them from your phone after 30 days. However, in order to delete them and reclaim the space immediately, you must empty this folder.

1. On your iPhone, launch the Photos app.
2. Select Albums from the bottom menu.
3. Scroll down to Utilities and select Recently Deleted.
4. In the top right corner of the screen, tap Select.
5. In the bottom left corner of the screen, tap Delete All.
6. Confirm that you want to delete these photos by tapping Delete ## Items (where ## represents the total number of photos you are about to permanently delete from your phone).

Note: If you accidentally deleted photos, you can recover them from this page as well.

How to Delete iCloud Photos

If your iCloud storage is running low due to the accumulation of photos, you can delete the iCloud photos on your iPhone.

However, iCloud sync for your Photos must be enabled for this to work.

Remove Photos from Files and Other Apps

You may have even more photos that you can delete to make room in the Files app. Open the app, then search For Photos, Videos, and Files on My iPhone for files that can be deleted. You’ll most likely see several folders, many of which were created by apps with the same name.

Depending on the apps you have installed, you may see Darkroom, Lightroom, Photoshop, Pixelmator, and others. You can delete these files directly from the Files app; however, it is recommended that you open the associated app first to ensure that you are removing the correct files. Because each app has its own project or file browser, the method of selecting and deleting items may differ.

How to Save Photos Even If They Are Deleted

Even if you need to free up all of your iPhone’s photo and video storage space, the good news is that it’s simple to save all of your photos in the cloud – and still have access to them on your phone almost as easily as if they were still in the Photos app.

Dropbox, Google Photos, and OneDrive allow you to back up all of your photos and videos online in the background, so you never have to think about it. Simply install your preferred cloud storage app and configure it to automatically save your photos for you. There are numerous advantages to doing so:

• You can always access your iPhone’s photos from any device, including your home computer, by logging into the relevant cloud service in a web browser.
• Your iPhone’s photos are automatically backed up.
• You can delete all of your photos from your iPhone to save storage space while still being able to browse and view photos and videos via the cloud app.

Conclusion

As with most things on an iPhone, Apple makes the most common option simple and straightforward. It becomes more difficult to proceed with more advanced operations or steps that could be dangerous. While this is by design, it can be annoying at times.

A good example is deleting all photos from an iPhone. Every photo on a dedicated camera can be cleared by formatting the memory card to start over. Several steps are required to free up as much space as possible on an iPhone, and even after deleting, you must empty the trash can.

With all of the information, you should be able to understand how photo deletions work on an iPhone. Although there is no quick way to remove all of the photos from an iPhone, being familiar with the process speeds up the process and prevents accidents that can result in precious memories being lost forever.