How to delete all photos from iPhone

Your iPhone treats the Photos app as an attractive item for all saved media and can get it very quickly. You may have saved every meme you’ve ever seen or just moved to Google Photos, its time to erase your photo library.

First, you need to consider whether you want to erase all your pictures from everything, everywhere, forever. If you use iCloud Photo Library, if you delete the photos on your iPhone, they will be deleted in the cloud and all devices connected to your iCloud.

Before you do anything, you should back up your photo library by saving a duplicate version or exporting all images on a Mac. Deleting photos is a permanent operation.

Disable iCloud Photos before deleting your library, select the photos to delete

1. Open Options App.
2. Select “Pictures.”
3. Turn off “iCloud Photos” if you want to influence only photos on your iPhone.
4. Turn off “Shared Albums” and “My Photo Stream” if you want the Photo app completely empty.

1. Open the Photos app.
2. Tap on “Library” and then “All pictures.”
3. Tap on “Select” in the top right hand corner.
4. Tap on pictures to remove the ones you want.
5. There is no “Select All” option for this step.

1. Tap on at least one picture until a blue mark appears.
2. Press and swipe your finger up in a scroll motion to begin selecting multiple images.
3. Leave your finger on the screen to continue exploring and selecting images.
4. Accelerate photo selection by using your other hand to make another move back and forth.
5. This is a two-finger operation, one finger will remain on the display to start the scroll while the other finger accelerates it.

An empty Photos app will display this message

1. You have selected all the images that you want to delete.
2. Tap on the trash can image in the bottom right corner.
3. A conversation will appear telling you how many images will be deleted and how many tables will be affected.
4. Tap on “Delete.”

This step is not permanent. It will move the deleted images to a “Recently Deleted” folder in the Albums button. Continue selecting and deleting photos until you are satisfied with the deletion.

Delete photos permanently by emptying recent deletions

This is your last chance to find any pictures that you have deleted by mistake. If you are deleting all of your images, make sure that none of them remain in the “Library” tab.

1. Navigate to the “Albums” tab.
2. Select “Recently Deleted.”
3. Tap on “Select” in the top right hand corner.
4. “Delete All” or “Recover All” will appear at the bottom of the screen.
5. Select “Delete All” to permanently delete your photos.

You can’t remove this step, so only do this step once you’re sure you have a backup or library in your new service like Google Photos.