Trying to delete photos from my iphone is making me crazy

December 29, 2016 11:01 AM

I am trying get a fresh start on my photos in my iphone with IOS 10. There are several album that appear under a heading "my Albums" on my iphone. Labeled last import and last 12 months. I can not seem to delete these albums or the photos within. These albums do not show up in iPhoto on my desktop or laptop allow me to delete through syncing Is it possible? How hive? Help!!
posted by citybuddha to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Turn syncing to iCloud OFF on your iPhone.

You can log into icloud.com and manage your files there too.
posted by humboldt32 at 11:04 AM on December 29, 2016

Response by poster: Im not using Icloud
posted by citybuddha at 11:31 AM on December 29, 2016

What are you running into when you try to delete the photos from the phone?
posted by humboldt32 at 11:44 AM on December 29, 2016

Albums on your phone named "Last Import" and "Last 12 Months" makes me think you are synced to a Mac OS X Photos app somewhere, somehow.
posted by humboldt32 at 11:47 AM on December 29, 2016

These photos are likely synced from iPhoto (or possibly via iTunes?).

Can you plug in your phone, and open iPhoto and iTunes to see what's syncing? You'll likely need to un-check the option to sync some/all albums from iPhoto, then use iTunes to Sync. That will then delete them from your phone.
posted by reeddavid at 12:02 PM on December 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

iPhoto/Photos only handles syncing photos from an iOS device, not to.

You'll need to plug the phone into the computer and use iTunes to see what photos it's syncing.

But yes this is textbook "synced from iTunes" behavior.
posted by sixfootaxolotl at 12:11 PM on December 29, 2016