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"I get an iPhone 13 yesterday. I logged in to my new phone with my Apple ID, and I wanted to delete a great number of photos because they were taking up a lot of space on my phone. Maybe I should operate it on a computer because I have over twenty thousand pictures that I can sort and delete quickly. How do I permanently delete photos at once from my iPhone using a computer? Help!"
As the Apple user knows, it is a time-wasting work to delete a large number of photos from an iPhone. So how to delete photos from iPhone on Windows 10 PC effectively? Let us show you the methods!
1. Search File Explorer on your computer
2. Find your Apple iPhone from the left pane
3. Click Internal Storage
4. Tap the DCIM folder
5. Select photos that you wish to delete. After that, right click to delete them.
You can view your photos and choose what you want to delete through icloud.com from any browser on your PC. Photos deleted from iCloud.com will also be deleted on other devices logged in with the same Apple ID.
Step 1: Open iCloud.com in a browser and sign in your Apple ID.
Step 2: Tap Photos.
Step 3: You can see two buttons right at the top of the figure. In Moment, your photos are automatically sorted by day. Please choose what you want to delete and tap the delete sign in the upper right.
Step 4: You can also tap the Photos option, which shows all the pictures together. Then click the delete icon on the top-right as above. Note that if you want to delete some photos at once instead of deleting them one by one, you can press Ctrl + Alt simultaneously; if you want to delete all, you should select all by pressing Ctrl + A.
Step 5: After that, click Delete when a prompt indicates whether you want to delete items from all your devices. By doing so, these items will be deleted from iCloud Photos on all your devices.
Warning: If you've accidentally deleted the photo you want, you can go to Recently Deleted on the left menu to restore it.
As for deleting iPhone photos, iSunshare iDevice Genius offers you an easy way to finish it. It allows you to fast clean all your pictures and delete them after previewing the pictures.
Step 1: To get started, please download and install iSunshare iDevice Genius to your computer.
Step 2: Click Scan to scan your device carefully and get more details.
Step 3: Tap Clean next to the Pictures files. You can see how many memories you can free up after cleaning.
Step 4: In this step, all the photos on your iPhone have been scanned. You can classify these photos by year, month, or day so you can see exactly what you want to delete. Besides, you can double-click to preview pictures and decide whether you delete them or not. If you want to delete all, please tick Check all on the top-left corner of this page.
Step 5: Click the Delete button at the bottom right. Next, tap Yes if you confirm to delete eventually.
Step 6: After you do this, click OK and then your photos have been deleted successfully and the space has been released at the same time.
So, here is how to delete photos from iPhone from a computer.
Go to your Photos app, click “Album” on the bottom-right, and then tap “Recents” (it is at the top of album interface) that includes all your recent photos. In your iPhone photos, there is not any icon for select all photos in one click. So, you must press photos with your finger from left to right to select (Lightly taping one photo and then swiping cross and up the screen until all of your images are selected). After that, tap the trash bin icon at the bottom-right corner of the screen to delete them in one go.
Note:The photos what you delete will be put on “Recently Deleted”, it takes up to 30 days for your photos to be deleted from your iPhone, they will be deleted permanently after 30 days.
It is simple to delete all photos from Settings on iPhone. Go to Settings>> [Apple ID]>>iCloud>>Manage Storage>> Photos.
Click “Disable & delete”, which means delete all data and document being saved on your iPhone.
These methods mentioned above will guide you to delete photos from iPhone on Windows 11/10 computer. You can have a try to free up space on your iPhone.
