If you keep scrolling and selecting, one step wrong, all the time you spend selecting might be wasted.
Tip: Use two fingers to pinch and zoom out, so that you can select more photos when scrolling. Repeat Step 4 to batch select photos, and delete them again.Tap the trash bin icon, and confirm deleting items.Moving to the top right corner, and let it scrolling and selecting at the same time. Starting from the bottom left picture, tap it, and do not release your finger.Within the Photos App, tap Library at bottom left.It is a little tricky to select all the pictures. You certainly won't like the idea to delete thousands of photos by selecting them one by one. 1.1 Select All Photos on iPhone to Delete: If you only want to delete photos on iPhone, not syncing that deletion to iPad, Mac and iCloud, make sure to turn off iCloud photos syncing, or jump to Method 2 for a safer and quicker solution. How to Delete All Photos on iPhoneīefore you proceed to remove all the pictures, please note that deleting photos from iPhone will also get photos on other devices deleted, if you have iCloud photo library turned on. No matter you are trying to delete iPhone photos directly on the device, or from Windows 10 and Mac. We break down the issues into several situations, so that you can find a solution for your scenario. Other users have special needs, such as deleting all photos but keep favorites album, or remove all photos without taping them one by one. We saw Reddit user complaining, "When trying to delete thousands of photos from Recently deleted, phone just hangs and has to be restarted."
You might encounter problems such as iPhone freezes, or Photos App quits unexpectedly, if you have large amount of photos to be deleted. It is a simple task to delete all photos from iPhone - or is it? What if you have 20000+ photos?