How can I quickly delete photos from my iPhone's camera roll? The fastest way to delete pictures from your iPhone's camera roll is to go to the 'Moments' section in your Photos app and use the select button to delete whole days at a time.
OK, I think I figured this out. On my Nikon, the USB settings give me the choice of mounting PTP or as Mass Storage. I switched from PTP to Mass Storage, and I once again have the option to erase my memory card from within Aperture while my Nikon is connected directly to my mac, I believe must have had my Nikon set this way before and inadvertently changed it since I used to have the same capability.The iPhone doesn’t give us that option; it only mounts as a device not as mass storage.
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So it can’t be erased from w/in Aperture AFAICS.And my Panasonic Lumix, which is off getting repaired right now, would apparently only mount as mass storage b/c I could always erase its memory card from within Aperture.HTH,F. Yes, that looks familiar.
I believe I used to see that dialog. Now this is the only dialog that I see:I’m seeing this with my directly connected iPhone4, iPhone3, and Nikon D50. So it doesn’t seem to be related to the hardware. I used to be able to erase the card from within Aperture for any of these (except the iPhone 4 which I didn’t have yet).I just spent some time hitting the “Do not show this message again button” and the Import Settings Restore Defaults, then going into preferences and doing a “Restore all Warmings” in hopes of rattling the AWOL dialog back into view, but it hasn’t helped.Very strange,Frank.
Reader Melissa Mead has a bad case of the overloaded iPhone. She writes: My iPhone is running out of storage space and I think it’s because I have a lot of photos on it. I’d like to remove them all in one go, after backing them up. Is there a simple way to do that?Try this: Jack your iPhone into your Mac using the included syncing cable and launch Image Capture. This is an oh-so-handy utility (that hardly anyone uses) for grabbing images from connected devices (including scanners, cameras, and iOS devices).Select your iPhone in Image Capture’s Devices column.
Below, choose a destination for your imported images from the Import To pop-up menu—your choices are the Pictures, Movies, Desktop, and Documents folders as well as iPhoto, Aperture, Preview, and Mail. Select Other and you can choose any folder you like. To import your photos click the Import All button at the bottom right of the window. This will import all the images in your iPhone’s Camera Roll.When you’ve done this, press Command-A to select all the iPhone’s images and then click the Delete button (which displays the international circle-with-a-slash icon). You’ll be asked to confirm that you want to delete your images.
Confirm-ho and the images will be deleted. IDGImage Capture may be the quickest way to bulk delete your iPhone images.Alternatively, after you’ve backed up your images you can delete them in batches directly on your iPhone. To do that launch the Photos app, navigate to the Photos tab on the left until you get to Moments view. Then tap Select at the top-right of the screen, and tap each Select link next to each batch of images you want to delete. Tap the Trash button in the bottom-right corner, confirm that you want to remove the images, and they’ll be deleted.
IDGYou can also delete images in batches from the iPhone's Moments screen.“But hang on a second!” you might be murmuring in an exclamatory way, “I just launched the Photos app on my phone and there are still pictures there. What’s up with that!?”Ah, that would be your Photo Stream.“And those photos are still taking up space on my iPhone, right?”Well. Yes.“And so we haven’t really gotten rid of all the photos on my iPhone, have we?”No. No we haven’t.“Sooo”Sooo you need to switch off Photo Stream on your iPhone. To do that go to Settings Photos & Camera. In the resulting screen flick the My Photo Stream switch to Off.
This will cause the pictures to disappear from your phone.The advantage of this technique versus deleting the images in your Photo Stream is that copies of these pictures are still on iCloud and the devices for which you’ve enabled Photo Stream. Severance blade of darkness download. Note that should you switch Photo Stream back on, any images that are part of Photo Stream will be downloaded to your phone.Have a question of your own? Drop a line to.