{"id":7963,"date":"2013-09-25T17:21:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7963"},"modified":"2018-08-22T21:29:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T01:29:27","slug":"quickly-emptying-the-iphone-camera-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/25\/quickly-emptying-the-iphone-camera-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickly Emptying the iPhone Camera Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/08\/09\/need-more-space-on-your-iphone-how-to-quickly-delete-all-photos-from-your-camera-roll\/\">Geoffrey Goetz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/08\/09\/need-more-space-on-your-iphone-how-to-quickly-delete-all-photos-from-your-camera-roll\/\"><p>And you may have discovered that you can only select your photos one at a time &mdash; there is no &ldquo;select all&rdquo; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Again access the Usage option under the General section of the Settings app and tap on Photos &amp; 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&rsquo;s Camera Roll.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tried this with iOS 7, but the Delete button didn&rsquo;t appear when I swiped. I&rsquo;ve also heard that in the Photos app you can two-finger swipe to batch select photos; that doesn&rsquo;t work for me either. So, as far as I can see, the only way to delete photos from the iPhone&rsquo;s camera roll (without using a Mac or PC) is to tap them individually.<\/p>\n<p>iPhoto on the Mac makes it easy to delete photos that have already been imported. Aperture does not, so I end up having to use Image Capture if I don&rsquo;t want my phone to fill up. Of course, neither of these methods works if you use Wi-Fi syncing or otherwise don&rsquo;t connect the iPhone directly to the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>The other photo management problem I have is that Photo Stream always stores the 1,000 latest photos on the phone. That&rsquo;s nearly 1 GB gone that I will never use, since my processed photos are all on Flickr. The only way around this seems to be turning off Photo Stream. You can&rsquo;t turn off downloads without also turning off uploads. So then my new photos wouldn&rsquo;t be backed up, and I would have to USB connect whenever I wanted to import them.<\/p>\n<p>You can, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT5125?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US\">manually delete photos from Photo Stream<\/a> after they&rsquo;ve been imported. This frees up space on the iPhone as well as the Mac&rsquo;s SSD.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Goetz: And you may have discovered that you can only select your photos one at a time &mdash; there is no &ldquo;select all&rdquo; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-23T01:29:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"8b0b0c5c-1fb9-4f1f-a6e0-0e5ba1f726d3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-23T01:29:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AiwsMXB-5Tx-m4A5bofcm0w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[114,152,16,1268,31,469,85,450,153],"class_list":["post-7963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-aperture","tag-camera","tag-icloud","tag-image-capture","tag-ios","tag-ios7","tag-iphone","tag-photostream","tag-photography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14417,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963\/revisions\/14417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}