.The end of summer is near. All the tell-tale signs are there:, and your iPhone’s Camera Roll is filling up with. Since you can’t just swap out an SD card on your iPhone(s AAPL) like you can with your old, managing how much free space you have left on your Camera Roll is a vital part of being able to continue taking photos — especially for those among us with 16 GB versions of the iPhone packed with a whole lot of home videos.Note: Before reading further, be absolutely sure that you have either downloaded to your Mac or uploaded to the cloud all of the photos from your iPhone that you want to keep. Because without that step, once they are deleted, you may not be able to get them back. When iCloud’s Photo Stream becomes a riverThe best way to offload the photos you take on your iPhone is to turn on. However, this feature does potentially double or even triple the amount of storage that your photos takes up on your iPhone.

1. How To Delete All Photos From Iphone 5

Each photo you take will be stored in your Camera Roll as well as your Photo Stream albums. When you share that same photo in a, you create yet another copy.To see the total amount of storage that photos use, access the Usage option under the General section of the Settings app. Scroll down until you see Photos & Camera. Here you will see a breakdown of the amount of storage taken up by the Camera Roll, Photo Library and Photo Stream. One way to keep this duplication of photos to a minimum is to delete them from your Camera Roll after downloading them to your Mac. Accessing the Camera Roll from your MacYou may think that connecting your iPhone to your Mac is not necessary if you are also using Photo Stream on your Mac. Having all of your photos automatically available to you when you open iPhoto or Aperture is so convenient that you may never tether your iPhone to your Mac.

Unfortunately, doing this will allow your Camera Roll to grow in size well beyond.When you do connect your iPhone to your Mac, both iPhoto and Aperture (depending on which one you’re using) will ask you if you want to. Additionally you can use the Image Capture app on the Mac to select the photos in the camera roll and delete them all at once. Launch Image Capture on your Mac, click on your iPhone under devices, choose “Select All” from the File menu, and press the delete button on the bottom of the window. (Prior to iOS 6, this was the only option available to delete photos from your iPhone’s Camera Roll.)Removing all photos without your MacYou may have already tried to use the Photos app on your iPhone to try to remove your photos from the Camera Roll. And you may have discovered that you can only select your photos one at a time — there is no “select all” option to be found. While this is a good way to selectively trim the size of your Camera Roll, there is now another way to delete all your photos.Again access the Usage option under the General section of the Settings app and tap on Photos & Camera. This time swipe your finger across the Camera Roll item in the list to reveal a Delete button.

By clicking on thus button you will remove all photos from your iPhone’s Camera Roll. This action is not reversible, so be sure you are willing to delete all photos before you tap on the Delete button. OrthorimTo add: Prior to deleting, I left Image Capture running and importing photos for about 6 hours. I know USB is slow but it’s not that slow.Then I imported into iPhoto, which took about an hour for 500 “new pictures”. In the process it froze once, I had to restart iPhoto and the phone. Then it finished importing and crashed.

The third time, it worked.Total garbage. You’d think Apple could come up with a solution on how to manage photos properly. I suppose it would be OK if they sped up iPhoto by a factor of 100. (this is on a late model MBP so nothing to do with machine speed). BrettThe timing of this article is perfect. I have about 1000 photos on my iPhone 5 that I planned to transfer off to my PC this weekend.

How To Delete All Photos From Iphone 5

I do not have a Mac, so I was planning on just using Windows Explorer to access the phone and transfer all the photos off to a folder on my laptop. The question I have is, is it OK to simply delete the photos from the phone using Windows Explorer?

There are about 100 that I plan to leave on the phone, so using the settings to delete all will not work. I just want to delete the 1000 or so that I will be moving to my laptop. TehGoldenRuleIf you go to My Computer on your PC and access the photos on your iDevice that way (My Computer lists iDevice as a drive), copy and paste them onto your PC, if you then try to delete the photos on iDevice in My Computer they will NOT delete. I tried this and it does not work to delete them. So transfer them all to PC then on iDevice go to Settings General Usage Photos and Camera Then swipe finger across Camera Roll to reveal delete button Tap delete.Now all your pictures are gone off the iPhone. To put the 100 that you wanted to remain back onto the iPhone, import them back to the iPhone using iTunes with iDevice connected Photos tab under import you can import pics onto iDevice.