How to Delete All Pictures from iPhone for Selling

Most iPhone users have the habit of taking photos when they travel through beautiful scenery, experience the funny moments with friends, or enjoy food with family. Do you also have the habit of taking screenshots on your iPhone when you find something interesting? Or saving and downloading some pictures from websites? So, as time goes by, there are many photos and pictures on your iPhone and they have taken the most space of your iPhone.

If you want to sell your iPhone, or donate your old iPhone to others, you need to transfer these valuable memories and then delete all files and data from your iPhone, especially your private photos and pictures. Here comes the question, how to delete all pcitures from iPhone?

Note: Before deleting, you need to backup iPhone photos on your computer first.

How to Delete Pictures from iPhone

Part 1. How to delete pictures from iPhone thoroughly before selling

When comes to the queston how to delete photos from iPhone, the most common way is to delete pictures on iPhone manually. You can choose all photos to delete or remove them from your iPhone one by one. However, this manual method is not safe enough, only if your deleted photos have been overwritten by other files. Considering your personal privacy, we recommend another way for you to thoroughly delete photos and pictures on your iPhone.

Before selling your iPhone, you need to make sure that all your data including these photos and pictures have been removed and cleared up totally, not just deleted as you see. Because there are many recovery tools on the current market, which can recover your deleted data. Therefore, if you want to make your photos and other data on your iPhone erased thoroughly and permanently, we recommend you two very useful tools to help you.

Delete photos from iPhone thoroughly with iPhone Cleaner

Aiseesoft iPhone Cleaner is one of the most popular tools to clean up your iPhone camera roll. With this tool, you can go through every photo you keep, and decide to delete those photos you don't want. If you don't want to delete them, this tool also offers another solution – compressing image size, to help you free up more space on your device.

What's more, iPhone Cleaner allows you to thoroughly clear junk and temporary files that slow down your iPhone. You can also clean large files, image cache, iTunes cache, invalid files, and more. To remove the unwanted photos from your device and get a tidy library that's a pleasure to view, download iPhone Cleaner and install it on your PC.

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The following steps will show you the way in detail.

Step 1:
Download the iPhone Cleaner on your computer. Then, you will see the interface as below.
Connect iPhone
Step 2:
Connect your iPhone to the computer with a USB cable. Hit Quick Scan at the home interface to move on.
Quick Scan
Step 3:
Here 4 options are available for you to clean up your iPhone. To clear photos, we should choose Clean up Photos and click on the Erase button to run a complete scan to know the total amount of space that can be freed.
Free Up Space
Step 4:
Now you find two options for photo clearing. One is Backup & Compress, and the other is Export & Delete. Here we choose Export & Delete to delete photos from iPhone.
Manage Photos

Select photos you want to delete and then click the Delete button to delete them.

Delete Photos

Part 2. Remove iPhone pictures from different albums with iPhone Manager

If you want to resell your iPhone, FoneTrans can permanently and thoroughly erase all settings and data on iPhone and make your iPhone like a new one. However, if you only want to delete iPhone photos and pictures separately, you might want to use another iPhone manager – FoneTrans. With this powerful iOS transfer software, you can handily find the photo category, and manage them. Download and install this Photo manager on your PC first.

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The Detailed steps to erase photos from iPhone

Run Fonetrans Connect iPhone
Step 1:
Connect iPhone to PC and run this software.
View
Step 2:
Click "Photos" from the left categories to view all photos.
Choose
Step 3:
Choose all the photos you want to delete, and then click "Delete".

Wait for a few minutes, you can find that all the photos you want to remove are already gone. As you can see, this iOS manager allows you to not only delete iPhone photos, but also export iPhone pictures to computer, import photos into iPhone, and more. It is very convenient and comprehensive to deal with iOS files.

PROS

  • Deleting iPhone photos from different albums like Photo Library, Camera Roll, etc.

CONS

  • This software is limited to delete photos with its free trial.

Part 3. Delete iPhone photos pictures from Camera Roll on PC or Mac

If you only want to delete photos from Camera Roll, but not from different Albums, then you can do it on your PC or Mac.

Erase iPhone photos from Camera Roll on Windows computer

Step 1:
Connect iPhone to Windows computer, you should note that you need to unlock your iPhone firstly, and then plug USB cable into computer to connect iPhone. Otherwise, you may fail to find your iPhone on your computer.
Step 2:
Click your iPhone name after entering "Computer", then click "Internal Storage" > "DCIM" > "100APPLE" or other folder name (there is only one folder) to find all your photos in Camera Roll.

Note: In this step, you will find that all the photos or pictures are from Camera Roll. If you find incomplete photos in the folder, then you need to do more settings as below on your computer to show all photos in Camera Roll.

1.) Press "R" + Windows key (commonly on the left bottom of keyboard) to begin the "Run" interface, then enter "mmc" > press "Enter" key.

2.) In the pop up window, click "File" > "Add/Remove Snap-in…" > find "Services" from the left options of "Snap-in" > click "Add" > "Local computer" > "Finish" > "OK".

Add Services

3.) After following all the settings above, you will find you are back the interface of "Services". Click "Services (Local)" on the left side of the window, choose "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)" on the middle interface. Then find "More Actions" from "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)" to select "Restart" and wait seconds, and choose "Save" in the pop-up window to save the changes you made just now. After that, come back to the folder, and you can find all the photos in Camera Roll are there.

Add Image Option
Step 3:
After following all the settings above, you will find you are back the interface of "Services". Click "Services (Local)" on the left side of the window, choose "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)" on the middle interface. Then find "More Actions" from "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)" to select "Restart" and wait seconds, and choose "Save" in the pop-up window to save the changes you made just now. After that, come back to the folder, and you can find all the photos in Camera Roll are there.

Clear Camera Roll photos on Mac

Step 1:
Connect iPhone to Mac with USB cable, and you will find "iPhoto" will launch immediately on your Mac.
Step 2:
After that, you can see all your photos in Camera Roll show in the interface. Click "Import n Photos" (n means that the total of the photos in Camera Roll) and wait seconds, there will be a pop-up window to remind you if you after willing to delete those photos on iPhone or just keep. Here you need to click "Delete Photos".
Step 3:
If you want to delete selected photos, you can select multiple photos with pressing "Shift" key firstly, then click "Import Selected" > "Delete Photos".

PROS

  • This way is total free.

CONS

  • In this way, you can only delete photos from Camera Roll, and you cannot identify which photo belongs to the corresponding album. And this way is a little complicated to find the photos on Camera Roll on Windowc computer.

For careless iPhone users, if you delete the photos that yuo did not mean to, just recover deleted photos from iPhone.

Part 4. FAQs of Deleting Photos on iPhone

Do photos stay on iCloud if I deleted from iPhone?

Usually, your iPhone automatically backs up to your iCloud account, and if you delete photos from your iPhone, they'll also be deleted from your iCloud.

What happens when I delete photos from iPhone?

When you delete photos, they go to your Recently Deleted album for 30 days. After 30 days, they'll be permanently deleted.

Do Phone cleaner apps really work?

Yes. The app for cleaning phones can remove extra files that are using too much unnecessary data from the setting of your device. They can help you free up more space on your phone.

Conclusion

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