Deleting a large number of photos on your iPad may not be obvious. There are a few solutions.
Deleting Several Imported iPad Photos using a Mac
The most convenient way to delete a large number of photos is probably to use your Mac. (It is probably possible to use some similar method on the PC, but I do not know which application to use.)
In the icon view you can get reasonably large previews of the photos.
In the list view, you can sort the images according to a large number of criteria. You can also move the columns around, so you see the information that interests you.
To select several pictures, you can use the standard multi-select shortcuts: Click and shift-click on another photo to select all photos in between. Command-click to toggle selection of an individual photo without affecting which other photos are selected. Command-A to select all photos on the iPad (in all folders!).
Deleting Several Imported iPad Photos on the iPad
You can also delete several photos at the same time on the iPad itself, but it is not that elegant. If you have a large number of photos in the same folder, it is not easy to select them all, and if you have photos in several folders, you often have to delete them folder by folder.
Photos you have synched with iTunes, you can remove in iTunes, by simply not synching them any more. It seems impossible to delete them from the iPad itself in iOS3.
Deleting Several Imported iPad Photos using a Mac
The most convenient way to delete a large number of photos is probably to use your Mac. (It is probably possible to use some similar method on the PC, but I do not know which application to use.)
- Connect your iPad.
- Open Preview on your Mac (Image Capture would also work with a slightly different scenario).
- Go to the menu item File > Import from (the name of your iPad)...
- Select the pictures you want to delete.
- Click on the red delete icon at the bottom of the screen.
In the icon view you can get reasonably large previews of the photos.
In the list view, you can sort the images according to a large number of criteria. You can also move the columns around, so you see the information that interests you.
To select several pictures, you can use the standard multi-select shortcuts: Click and shift-click on another photo to select all photos in between. Command-click to toggle selection of an individual photo without affecting which other photos are selected. Command-A to select all photos on the iPad (in all folders!).
Deleting Several Imported iPad Photos on the iPad
You can also delete several photos at the same time on the iPad itself, but it is not that elegant. If you have a large number of photos in the same folder, it is not easy to select them all, and if you have photos in several folders, you often have to delete them folder by folder.
- Locate a view with the photos you want to delete.
- Click on the Export (!) icon with the arrow in a square in the upper right corner.
- Do not click on the tempting red Delete button, but click once on each of the pictures you want to delete. You can also drag with two (!) fingers over the photos you want to select. (In the first version of the Photo app, you used one photo, but Apple thought that was too easy.)
- Click on the Delete button.
Photos you have synched with iTunes, you can remove in iTunes, by simply not synching them any more. It seems impossible to delete them from the iPad itself in iOS3.
- Connect the iPad.
- In iTunes, click on the iPad icon.
- Click on the tab Photos.
- In Projects and Albums, unselect the folder you sync.
3 comments:
This was really helpful. I've been digging around online trying to figure out how to delete my imported photos on my iPad without resorting to selecting them one by one.
Thanks!
Interesting. I've bookmarked it for future reference.
I blog with a mixture of text and photos and I am in the throws of deciding whether an iPad will suffice as a travel machine.
So I wonder how you get your photos into the iPad in the first place?
Do you transfer them from the SD card using the camera adaptor?
And then what programme do you use to work with RAW files on the iPad? Snapseed seems the best of the tools I work with on the iPhone.
The bulk of my iPad photos come from other cameras. I can take, let's say, a hundred photos with a DSLR and then transfer them to the iPad with the camera connection kit. I can then check the quality on the iPad sort out the keepers and delete the other ones.
Next step is to transfer them to my Mac, usually with Adobe Bridge's "Get photos from camera" option.
And then the cumbersome deletion on the iPad.
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