Deleting photos on iPhone 5 that were imported from another phone?

Smig1985

Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone has a fix for this...I've just upgraded to an iPhone 5 from a Samsung Galaxy S2 and the agent in the shop where I bought it transferred all the photos from my old phone to the new one. The only problem is I can't seem to find a way to delete any of these imported photos as I don't really need the vast majority of them anymore. They are located in an album called 'sii pics' (which I presume was created by the agent). There is no trash can icon below any of the photos and they do not appear on iTunes when the phone is connected to my laptop so I can't delete them that way either. It's very frustrating as neither O2 nor the Apple forum were able to help me out! Any clever boardsies out there?

Mimikyu

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Smig1985

You can press edit but an option to delete doesn't come up after that; you can rotate the picture, auto-enhance it, remove the red-eye or constrain it, but there's definitely no option to delete. It seems to have puzzled everyone I've explained it to!

guil

When you connect to the pc go to my computer and click on th iPhone. You have to go through 2 or 3 folders to get to it but ya should get DCIM with sii inside it. Try delete them from there. I'd imagine the sales rep synced the pics from iTunes so if you try sync pics from your own iTunes all of them will get removed

Smig1985

Cheers guil, I'll give that a go and let you know how I get on.

lenconan

The easiest way is to connect it to your computer and open the camera roll as a digital camera with iPhone Data Eraser.
Alternatively, on the phone, open the camera roll, if it isn't displaying thumbnails tap the "camera roll" label on the upper left. Then tap the box with an arrow on the bottom of the screen, tap each photo you want to delete once, then tap to delete photos from iPhone.

guil

lenconan wrote: »

The easiest way is to connect it to your computer and open the camera roll as a digital camera with iPhone Data Eraser.
Alternatively, on the phone, open the camera roll, if it isn't displaying thumbnails tap the "camera roll" label on the upper left. Then tap the box with an arrow on the bottom of the screen, tap each photo you want to delete once, then tap to delete photos from iPhone.

Imported photos don't appear in the camera roll.

Piliger

Smig1985 wrote: »

You can press edit but an option to delete doesn't come up after that; you can rotate the picture, auto-enhance it, remove the red-eye or constrain it, but there's definitely no option to delete. It seems to have puzzled everyone I've explained it to!

You can go in to ANY Album in the photos app. Click on 'select' on the top right, and tap on all the photos you don't want ... then click on the bin on the bottom right. What's the problem ?

guil

Piliger wrote: »

You can go in to ANY Album in the photos app. Click on 'select' on the top right, and tap on all the photos you don't want ... then click on the bin on the bottom right. What's the problem ?

No you can't, if an album is synced from itunes the only way to remove it is unsync it.

Piliger

guil wrote: »

No you can't, if an album is synced from itunes the only way to remove it is unsync it.

Yes you can ... for certain if it's not completely synced with iTunes. I have several albums synced with iTunes and it is no problem. I can't comment if ALL are synced as I dont want to test it right now.


NB: The OP did not indicate he was synced.


EDIT: I see that the albums that are synced do not give a trash icon. So the solution is to either a) Select and Move to an album that is not synced, or b) un click "all folders" in the iTunes Photos sync section.

guil

The op said the assistant in the shop did it. You can't put pics in an album using a computer unless you sync. When you do so you can't delete the pics unless you have the phone jail broken and use a file browser or you un-sync them.

Piliger

guil wrote: »

The op said the assistant in the shop did it. You can't put pics in an album using a computer unless you sync. When you do so you can't delete the pics unless you have the phone jail broken and use a file browser or you un-sync them.

Don't you get it ? You don't have to sync all albums... And he can delete if he moves first.

guil

I can't check because I have no photos synced from my PC but if you can't delete the photos from an iTunes created folder I doubt you can move them to another folder to delete them there. You can create a folder from the photos app and move them around all day long but synced folders are different.

Piliger

guil wrote: »

I can't check because I have no photos synced from my PC but if you can't delete the photos from an iTunes created folder I doubt you can move them to another folder to delete them there. You can create a folder from the photos app and move them around all day long but synced folders are different.

The management of photos in the photo app is a little bit of a pain actually. Normally all potos originate in the Camera roll, whether actually taken with the camera or saved. When you move to another folder, it is copied but not actually moved, leaving the original still in the camera roll.

The only solution to this situation, where we don't really know how the photos were placed there - seems to be to uncheck sync photos, sync the phone and go and delete what he doesn't want.