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How do I permanently delete photos from camera roll?
For more info on deleting images, view this support page.
- From a Home screen, tap Photos .
- Tap Albums (located in the lower-right).
- Tap the Recently Deleted Album.
- Tap the photo or video that you want to permanently delete.
- Tap Delete.
- To confirm, tap Delete Photo or Delete Video.
Can I delete photos from my iPhone and not lose them?
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. To get around this, you can turn off iCloud photo sharing, sign in to a different iCloud account, or use a cloud server other than iCloud for photo sharing.
Does deleting Photos from camera roll delete from iCloud?
As mentioned, any photo or video you delete on your phone will automatically be deleted from your iCloud account if you have syncing turned on. This is the same as using Photos on iPhone or Mac; you’ll need to go to your Recently Deleted folder to permanently delete everything.
How do I delete Photos from my iPhone but keep them in favorites?
Go to “Photos” on the bottom to hide your hidden photos. Then click a category until you see the “Select” option appear at the top. Click “Select”, then click “Select” next to each day until you have selected everything you want to delete. You can hit the trash icon periodically to delete what you have selected so far.
What happens when you delete a photo from your camera roll?
Deleting a photo from your Camera Roll will also delete it from the Photo Stream. And this applies to all your linked devices. One should think the Photo Stream as a single common Album that all the devices have access to. Hence, any change to it, is reflected to all devices.
How can I clear my iPhone camera roll?
To clear your iPhone’s camera roll without losing any photo, get the Utiful app. Utiful is a complementary photo library, so you can freely move photos between the Camera Roll and the Utiful folders. So, unlike the Photos app than only duplicates photos into albums, Utiful makes it finally possible to physically MOVE photos out of the Camera Roll.
What happens when you delete a photo from iCloud?
Do not confuse this with the iCloud Photo Library (Beta) will not affect your photos in the iPhoto projects, since these are not synced automatically or something. Deleting a photo from your Camera Roll will also delete it from the Photo Stream. And this applies to all your linked devices.
What happens when I delete an image from Google Photos?
By contrast, for images backed to Google Photos after being captured on your phone, if you simply Delete from within your Google Photos App, by tapping Trash, e.g., the images will be deleted from the cloud as well and will no longer be available in Google Photos (unless restored from the Trash within 60 days of deletion).