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How can I delete more than one photo from my iPad?

April 8, 2010 / Dave Taylor / iPad Help / 20 Comments

My kids have learned how to take screen captures on the Apple iPad [ed note: hold down the top button and push the home button. Poof, you just took a screen capture] which means that I now have tons of them in my Saved Photos album. Not good. Is there a fast and easy way to delete multiple photos or pictures from my iPad?

You’re in luck, because apparently the folks at Apple have also had a similar experience because they do let you work with more than one photo at a time, though it’s not particularly obvious how to do so when you’re viewing an album. The good news, though, is that it also lets you easily collect up 3-4 photographs or pictures and email them to a friend, if you’re so inclined.
First step is one that you have already figured out: tap on the “Photos” icon:

ipad icons photos

Before you get sidetracked with your amazing photographs and the albums and events you’ve sync’d up from your computer, let’s stay focused. Or maybe that’s just me. 🙂
In the Albums view, notice that you have “Saved Photos” as an option. Choose it:
ipad photos albums

On the top right, there’s a small box icon with an arrow bursting out of it:
ipad photos saved photos

Tap on that icon and you’ll see the top bar change to indicate you can select more than one photo and take a group action with those selected, rather than tap to see a specific photograph:
ipad photos select photos

Tap on a couple of photos that you want to delete. Each has a small checkmark added to its preview:
ipad photos multiple photos selected

When you’ve selected those that you want to delete, simply tap on the “Delete” button on the top left and…
ipad photos delete selected photos

Are you suuuuurrrrreeee? If so, tap on “Delete Selected Photos” and they’re gone. Unrecoverably gone. Voila!
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20 comments on “How can I delete more than one photo from my iPad?”

  1. Boris Chang says:
    November 20, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    What if you have hundreds or thousands of saved photos? It would take hours and hours to delete them all using that method (select a few and press delete and confirm)????????

    Reply
    • Keith says:
      October 21, 2013 at 4:51 am

      go onto album/select/tap all photos to delete/trash bin the ones ,marked

      Reply
  2. MelindaR says:
    August 22, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    How can I delete pictures that I synced to my iPad??? I can’t seem to do it from my iPad and can not figure out how to do it from iTunes. Please help……

    Reply
  3. Sal says:
    May 28, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    The delete button doesn’t work!
    APple should upgrade the software ASAP.
    Sal

    Reply
  4. Rina says:
    April 4, 2011 at 2:56 pm

    I have DELETE button- not working. But I don’t have Saved Photo button. Pls help. I’m using IPad 1,os 4.2.

    Reply
  5. Dave Taylor says:
    March 27, 2011 at 8:57 am

    “P”, generally all the photo management is done within iTunes on the computer you use to sync with your iPad. Plug in the iPad, go to “Photos”, and hopefully you’ll see how to tweak it appropriately. I have a number of articles on this topic on the site too, search for ‘ipad photos’

    Reply
  6. P wilson says:
    March 26, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    How do I remove a complete photo album from my ipad

    Reply
  7. Gene says:
    March 26, 2011 at 4:28 am

    For as long as people have been complaining about this inability to delete individual photos from the iPad, you would think that Apple would by now have sent out fix. A simple select and Delete button would fine.

    Reply
  8. chuck says:
    December 21, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    I just bought a 32G iPad and can’t seem to get any movies to import into iTunes. Most all are either MOVs or WMVs. Someone said I have to convert them. Yes? if so, how?
    Chuck F. Alaska

    Reply
  9. Vickie Prescott says:
    November 27, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    Why are you able to delete your pics from Ipad? How did you upload your pics to Ipad?

    Reply
  10. dale grassi says:
    September 7, 2010 at 12:26 am

    can you restore the ipad back to fact settings to get rid of your p[ctures

    Reply
  11. Robert says:
    July 5, 2010 at 2:52 pm

    The inability to easily delete photos that were transferred by sync from a PC is beyond belief stupid. It’s too bad when Microsoft cares more than Apple because Apple is listening to their customers. How about when a button says “delete” that it works simply?

    Reply
  12. deb colburn says:
    June 29, 2010 at 7:35 am

    i accidentally downloaded all my pics from my macbook pro onto my ipad and now my ipad freezes up when i try to do anything in photos.
    HELP!!

    Reply
  13. Kbg says:
    June 15, 2010 at 11:49 pm

    How do I get rid of the 9000 pics I accidentally dl.d to the iPad without deleting the ones on the mac

    Reply
  14. Afaq says:
    May 6, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    During photo the screen says email copy but no delete button appears tell me how to correct rgds afaq

    Reply
  15. Lee says:
    April 26, 2010 at 6:27 am

    Muliple email addresses on iPad.
    I share my iPad with my sister. If we add our 2 email addresses to the iPad, can we password protect so our emails are not read by each other

    Reply
  16. Dave Taylor says:
    April 14, 2010 at 10:58 pm

    Ah, you’re right! The photos that you’re syncing from your computer via iTunes you can’t delete from the iPad: you can only delete them from either iTunes itself by changing your sync options or by tweaking your photo library within iPhoto/Aperture.

    Reply
  17. Ron Grandia says:
    April 14, 2010 at 10:15 pm

    This solution only works for “saved photos.” Does not work for the rest of the library.

    Reply
  18. Dave Taylor says:
    April 14, 2010 at 5:45 pm

    Rich I can’t believe we have different versions of the iPad operating system so have you compared what you see with one or two pics selected versus a dozen?

    Reply
  19. Rich says:
    April 14, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    Sorry – not on my iPad – there’s “email” and “copy” but NO DELETE.
    Mine’s brand new – what are you using. Followed your directions to the letter.
    Have to go back to iTunes “photo folder” – delete it there and re-sync.

    Reply

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