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[j1h15233]

Nice tip, but it's easier to just delete them on the phone now that you can select multiple photos at once.

[NOSFERATU]

That is a great usage of image capture!

One other app I would suggest (it isn't free but it does the picture management and a lot more) is phoneview.

http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/

I have been using it for a while and it works great for managing pretty much everything on your iDevices.

[Dan Frakes]

j1h15233, on 12 May 2011 - 07:26 AM, said:

Nice tip, but it's easier to just delete them on the phone now that you can select multiple photos at once.

If you need to delete only 10 or 20, sure. But if you've got dozens—or hundreds—multiple-select in the Photos app is maddening.

[someToast]

Maybe it's fixed now, but when I'd use Image Capture to selectively remove photos on a 3GS with iOS 3.x, I'd get random black/blank tiles in the phone's camera roll and swiping through fullscreen photos would get flaky.

[Panglos]

I found the title of this article confusing, thinking it was about deleting from your Mac the photos that you sync to your phone. How about changing "from" to "using?"

Gotta know your prepositions, especially when writing is your stock in trade...

[liberlike]

Thanks for this cool tip!

[rickoberndorf]

You can do the same thing with Preview. In Preview, select File > Import from iPhone. Command click the photos you want to delete, then hit the little delete button at the bottom of the window. You can also, of course, import selected photos. I find this easier since I've got Preview open all the time.

[macDG]

rickoberndorf, on 17 May 2011 - 05:35 AM, said:

You can do the same thing with Preview.

Preview !! Now that's a great tip! (Appears that it uses a back-door to Image Capture) And, like Rick, since Preview is almost always open for me, this is a great way to process, save or delete iPhone/iPad photos. Thanks !

[doylehelmink]

It was easy for me to delete the pictures I accidentally loaded from my pictures on my computer (4000 of them) I just plugged the iphone in to the computer & went to itunes. Go to Photos at top of page. Go to selected folders & check the folders you want to delete. I only saved the pictures I actually took with the iphone.

[iSki_iMac]

The default is 'import to pictures'.

How can you change the default to 'import to iPhoto'?

[MICHC0]

THANK YOU. saved my life.

[BrigitteBard]

rickoberndorf, on 17 May 2011 - 05:35 AM, said:

You can do the same thing with Preview. In Preview, select File > Import from iPhone. Command click the photos you want to delete, then hit the little delete button at the bottom of the window. You can also, of course, import selected photos. I find this easier since I've got Preview open all the time.

this is SUCH a great tip. I have always used Image Capture but it started crashing on me in the middle of exporting and deleting the other day. I tried to get some assistance through the Apple community help area but no one replied. Thank you SO MUCH for this suggestion. I do have one question and a comment... can you select to import to an external drive? I always like to save a 2nd backup separate from Aperture of the photos being deleted from my iPhone. And as for my comment, on my Preview (im still using OS X 10.5.8) you have to select the images you want to delete, then go into EDIT and select DELETE from there since there is no option on the bottom of the page. As you said, it completely deletes from your iPhone perhaps easier and quicker than Image Capture. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

[WildWing1]

So glad I found this page. Thank you, thank you! I started to load them, then delete them and did not want to wait, so I started to look around, and if you click the lower right hand corner of the window and make it larger, the "delete" option shows up on the top of the window. You can then select everything and just click delete! It has deleted 700 of the photos while I typed this!!