Note: I use dropbox to back up all my photos so I never worry too much about deleting any, but there are those "favorites" that I like to keep to have quickly at hand to show to others. This will free up the space on your phone and you still have your favorites. Select those and restore.Ĥth: Now go back to recently deleted folder and permenantly delete all the contents. Those photos will now be in one group in the "recently deleted" folder.Ģnd: Go to your main photo album "Camera Roll" select all the photos and delete.ģrd: Go to recently deleted folder, you will find your "favorites" are all still bunched in a group together. Your "recently Deleted" folder stores items in the order that they were deleted.ġst: Go to favorites folder (or whatever folder that contains photos/videos that you want to keep) Select all and then press the trash (delete) icon. To free up space on my phone, while maintaining my favorites I do the following: I don't know why Apple doesn't include a mass-selection tool to easily select all favorite or non-favorite photos, but this app does the job! It was a bit nerve-wracking to hit delete on that many photos, but I had already backed up my camera roll to my PC using the PhotoSync app (another great tool), so I wasn't really worried. It took a minute or so to delete everything, but it was 9gb of photos, so I think it can be excused for that :) When I hit delete, it moved all of the non-favorites from my camera roll to the recently deleted folder (so I could recover them for 30 days if I needed to). I just ran the app, and it worked perfectly! It selected the 2,600 photos on my phone that I hadn't marked as favorites and ignored the 600 that I had favorited. The app is "Deleter" by saleksandras and it's at: A user on the MacRumors forum has built an app to do exactly this task, find and delete all photos in a folder or in the camera roll that have not been marked as a favorite.
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