How to delete iPhone photos except for favorites (or selected albums)

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Unfortunately, as of 2022, Apple still does not give us a nice way to delete "everything but" specific albums, including favorites. Even the "Free up space" option in Google photos is all-or-nothing. So in this video, I show you a few different ways to preserve the photos you want when you need to clear out space without having to go one by one to do so.

I personally use Google Photos as my backup storage, so make sure you sync or download your photos somewhere before deleting them, or they may be lost.

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Thanks so much! It took an hour to scroll through and delete 19, 000 photos but I was able to hide my 1000 favorites beforehand so it all worked out in the end. Great video!

MichaelToub

This is the solution I have been looking for for years. Thank you!

jdp

Thank you sooo very much for this video. I wasted so many hours today hitting roadblocks with trying to delete most photos off my phone and keeping a small portion of them. I must admit, that I thought my almost 5, 000 photos was a lot, then I saw your numbers. Lol. WOW! I'm sure if my phone would have held that much, I would have been there eventually.

everfreethinker

The "Everything but" albums, such as favorites still works. You have to make sure you go to "settings" then "Photos" then turn on the "Show Hidden Album" option. If you don't do this, you will not be able to unhide the hidden favorites, etc. Thanks for the tutorial!

xXStickyGreenZXx

***Thanks for the super tip!
—>I can’t believe Apple doesn’t provide an easier more intuitive option to delete everything but your favorites folder.

armstronglance

Best way even seen of deleting photos from Iphone!

diegomcolucci

Thank you for the hide-unhide tip! Very useful!

mitzoss

Thanks for this, made my life easier. Hope this makes yours easier: to 'select all' photos faster select a few photos and hold, then scroll up with the other hand simultaneously. It selected my 1400 pictures in seconds.

sodrad

This worked so well for me in little time! Thank you so much for sharing!

darleneavilesperez

Super helpful tip for protecting high res originals, thank you!

QUESTION: how can I protect ORIGINAL photos related to medium-res versions that live in SHARED ALBUMS? Most of my albums are shared, so those pictures are duplicate files at a lower resolution. If I only protect those albums and throw out the rest, I am throwing out the high res originals of all photos that matter to me.

ninjette