Can’t Delete Photo Albums from iPhone/iPad ? How to Fix it

The photo app that comes with iPhone or iPad enables you to edit and organize photos in albums. One of the most common problem when taking photos with iPhone camera is that “there is not enough available storage to take a photos”. Yeah, it’s easy to delete pictures from your iPhone 7/7 Plus/6S Plus in normal way to free up space: Just select photos that you want to delete and tap the delete button to take these photos off iPhone. However, iOS users often complain that some albums can be deleted while others can’t, when scanning "undetectable" photos, the delete option disappears, why ?

Why Can’t Photos Be Deleted from iPhone/iPad ?

You need to figure out that these photos are not actually taken with your iPhone/iPad camera but uploaded from computer or other phones, right ? Alternatively, they have been synced with iTunes, thus you have no way to remove photos from iPhone/iPad directly.

How to Completely Take Photos Off iPhone/iPad with iTunes

1. Create an empty folder on computer called “Empty Folder” or other file names.

2. Make sure you are using the latest version of iTunes application on your computer and launch it.

3. Plugging your iPhone/iPad to Mac or PC using USB cable. After detection, click device icon, tap on “Photos” from the left-hand sidebar.

4. Find the Sync options when you click "Photos" in iTunes. And the next step is to sync it with empty folder created just now.
5. Tap on copy photos from “Empty Folder” and hit “Apply” to sync. After the whole process, the offending album will be completely removed from your iPhone/iPad.

In addition to delete photos, you can still extract all photos from iPhone backup to computer to free up your iPhone space with free iTunes Backup Extractor, which enables you to extract all file types from iPhone, including photos, videos, contacts, SMS, MMS, iMessages, whatsApp messages, notes, etc.