Photos and videos sometimes fill up space on your iPhone quickly, especially if you don’t use the iCloud Photo Library. In this tip, you can read how to instantly delete a large number of photos from your iPhone at once.
Deleting photos on your iPhone can save you a huge amount of space. If you are going to get started with this, make sure you make a backup of what you want to keep in advance. You can then delete images. You don’t have to do that one by one, in this tip article you can read how to delete many at once.
Delete photos on iPhone
You can use multiple ways to erase iPhone photos. If you prefer to work selectively, so that you still keep certain snapshots on the device, then you have a little more work. Yet it is then possible to select dozens of photos at the same time, without opening a picture each time. For that you do the following:
- Open the Photos app;
- Go to ‘Library’ or choose an album of your choice;
- Tap ‘Select’ at the top right;
- Tap the photos you want to delete;
You can also swipe over rows of photos you want to delete.
- After the selection, choose the trash can at the bottom right and confirm the deletion.
Helpful Hint: If you want to select a lot of photos at once, swipe your finger from the top left photo during selection. Swipe right and then down. This way you can select entire rows at once and then delete them.
Delete photos by category
If you go to the folder with all photos on your iPhone, it may be difficult to find out what you want and don’t want to delete. Alternatively, you can scroll all the way down in your albums. Here you can see how many photos and videos you have saved per category. For example, tap ‘Screenshots’ to see all your screenshots. You can then choose the screenshots you want to delete here.
Do you want to know more about the photos on your iPhone? On iPhone you can read all kinds of useful photo tips. For example, we’ll explain how to hide photos in your Photos app and how to use the Photos app on your Mac. Since iOS 14.3, it is also possible with the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max to save photos in the Apple ProRAW format in your Photos app. You can read how Apple ProRAW works on our website.
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