Comments on: A Stupid Trick to Quickly Remove All Photos from Camera Roll on iPhone with Preview

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:19:37 +0000

Wow. What a nightmare piece of crap. Thanks mate!

By: Lefty

Lefty — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:44:42 +0000

Strange, this doesn’t work for me either. Swiping to delete Camera Roll (Settings>Usage>Photos&Camera), but the screen kicks back one step to the Usage page and shows no change in available space. 4,156 photos still in Camera Roll. Running iOS6. Guess I’ll try the Preview method next time I’m tethered.

By: Marnie

Marnie — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:06:37 +0000

THANK YOU! I spent forever messing around with iPhoto and Aperture…and could not find a way to delete the Camera Roll without individual deletions. With over 3,800 pictures to delete, that would have been a nightmare. Not happy that iPhoto doesn’t offer the option to delete after importing…but you saved me with the easy tip. Still may sell my Apple stock, though.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:24:14 +0000

*restarted

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:23:51 +0000

I tried this several times and it didn’t work. I even restared my iPhone. What am I missing?

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:42:55 +0000

I’m having the exact same issue. I recently cleared out my entire camera roll (and all photos), and it’s still saying there is 130MB in the Camera Roll, and 2.7 MB in the photo library.

I tried swiping both of these and deleting, and they just came right back. Can’t seem to get this 133MB back.

By: Sri

Sri — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:56:46 +0000

Shelby – you are on the money. Don’t think there is a better way to clear your camera roll completely. Simple.

Just go to Settings>Usage>Photos, and swipe to the right over ‘camera roll’, then hit delete.

By: Shelby

Shelby — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:15:54 +0000

You can quickly delete all of the photos on any iOS device running iOS 6. Just go to Settings>Usage>Photos, and swipe to the right over ‘camera roll’, then hit delete.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:36:29 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Can’t believe a company as smart as Apple don’t have a good way to achieve this simple task.

By: CF

CF — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:22:32 +0000

Can’t you go to Settings:General:Usage:Photos & Camera, and swipe the Camera Roll? Then press the red Delete button?

I ask, because the functionality is there (I do the same thing to delete my music).

And also because I’ve just done this to delete my photos a few minutes ago, and the phone doesn’t seem to be giving me back my space. Wondering if it would take a long time, I did a Google search and found this page.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:56:13 +0000

During the transfer from iphone 4 to iphone 5, I cannot restore my Camera Roll. I have the images saved in a file (format looks like this: )dc926a1810f7aee4e8f38793ed788701f93bf9d.
Can you tell me how I can either convert these photos from the Camera Roll that are in this strange format back to my new iPhone 5, or convert them to .jpg or something, just so I don’t lose them? Any help is much appreciated.

By: doug

doug — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:14:23 +0000

i no longer have a computer… how,do,I remove thousands of pictures from the camera roll on my ipad 2 but not manually ? i choose a bunch then one opens with 100s selected with no,way to,delete. if i go,back the selections have cleared !!!! AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH

how do i suggest to apple to create a batch method or group select/choose (like triple tap first in group,then goto last in group and triple tap it – group to delete selected !!!). i

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:29:03 +0000

And if u don’t have a Mac?

By: vdiv

vdiv — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:19:03 +0000

Well, at least modern computers are fast enough to run multiple operating systems simultaneously in virtual machines. That way we are not constrained by the limitations of a particular OS. My MacBook Pro runs Win 7 64-bit natively faster than MacOS X, go figure. However I still run it in MacOS X and run 32-bit VMs in Parallels.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:13:43 +0000

The black menu bar is done with MenuBarFilter

http://eece.github.com/MenuBarFilter/

We wrote about it a while back here:

http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/23/dark-menu-bar-mac-os-x/

The wallpaper is a surfer duck diving under a wave, can’t recall where I got it though.