Delete iPhone, iPad, or iPod photos from your Mac or PC computer
Updated on Mar 9, 2026
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With iMazing, it's easy to quickly delete multiple photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Thanks to our advanced photo library view, you can preview your photos and videos in high resolution, and select just what you'd like to remove from your device. It's also possible to get creative and leverage the many sorting options available to delete a specific subset of items – everything but favorites for instance. Let's see how that's done!
If you use iCloud Photo Library, photos can only be deleted directly from the iPhone, with Apple's Photos app, or via iCloud.com.
Before you begin
Always make sure you are running the latest iMazing version, to do so select Check for Updates from the iMazing menu, or just download the latest available version for your computer below.
Download and install iMazing
Launch iMazing on your computer
If you haven’t already, download and install iMazing. For more details please refer to our guide available for PC and for Mac.
Connect your device to your Mac or PC via USB
iMazing will prompt you to connect the device to your computer on the first time you're using it. To do so use a USB cable, and unlock the device using your passcode, Face ID or Touch ID, and follow the instructions for pairing.
Tip: For more details on connections and pairing refer to this guide.
Click on Devices in the left pane
From the Devices view you will see all the devices previously connected and paired to your computer. Click to select a device.
Tip
Once your device is connected and paired, you can access any dataset or tool directly in iMazing:
View the datasets you can access
iMazing will display the Overview screen for the selected device. From here you can access all available datasets for that device. The top row shows the most commonly used datasets, such as Messages, Photos, Music, and more. If you don't see the dataset you want, click the More button in the top row to see all available datasets for that device.
Tip: Altenatively, click on Data in the left pane to see every single dataset available for that device, including shortcuts to third party apps such as VLC and more.
Select and delete some photos
To delete photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch:
- Click on Camera, then select the photo(s) you want to delete.
- In the bottom toolbar, click the Delete button. This will open a confirmation dialog box.
- Confirm, and iMazing will start deleting photos from your device.
Tips
- Use the CTRL/Command, or SHIFT keys to select multiple photos.
- Use the buttons in the upper toolbar to alternate between icon, list or column views.
Instructions - Advanced
Let's see how we can leverage the Columns view along with sorting to identify and quickly delete all photos from a specific subset. For this example, we'll delete all items which are not marked as Favorites, a real world use case of an iMazing user which actually prompted us to add the 'Is Favorite' column!
- Switch to Column view by clicking the 3rd view item in the top toolbar.
- Find the 'Is Favorite' column and click it to sort by Favorite status.
- Select all items for which is Favorite is false – to do this, simply select the first item that isn't a favorite, scroll until you find the last one, and hold the Shift key before selecting that last item in order to select the whole range.
- Click the Delete button and confirm.
Tip: in the screenshot above, the Is Favorite column is displayed in second position, just after Name. By default, you'll find that column much further to the right, but you can easily re-arrange columns by drag and dropping the header to just where you want it!
What to keep in mind
- iMazing may ask you to unlock your device. This is normal and is required to delete photos.
- Photos deleted with iMazing are permanently deleted, they will not appear in your 'Recently Deleted' album.