deleting all photos from iPhone - but keeping favourite ones

[darlingbudsofjuly]

I've been struggling to work out how to do this for at least an hour and i'm no further on!

I've backed all my iPhone pics up to dropbox etc., and I now want to delete EVERYthing apart from my special favourite pictures.

I tried sticking them in a separate folder - when I delete a whole day's worth (as you can, in the albums bit) my favourites went as well.

I tried labelling them as favourites with that little blue heart - they went too.

Any neat trick? Essentially what I want to do is go through, mark my 'favourites' and then easily and quickly delete absolutely everything else. Possible??

Delete everything and then put the favourites back on.

I feel your frustration...

how do i put them back?
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If you've saved your favourites on Dropbox, can't you just email them individually to your iPhone or send them in a link to your iPhone via email?

Email the favourites to yourself, delete everything, then download the favourites to your phone from your email.

If you go into photos (not albums) then years, then select a collection, you can then press select, which ticks every photo in that collection, untick any you want to keep and bin the rest. It's s bit of a faff though.

Open Dropbox on your phone, find the photo you want to save to your phone and save it to your phone (the standard icon that looks like a box with an arrow coming out of the top)

oh, dropbox on my phone - I've never put it there, that's an idea! (they get to dropbox via some convoluted backup whenever I plug phone into laptop).

thank you v much - I can't believe how complicated it seems to be!

now i need to work out how to delete my phone backup from my computer, as it's eaten every bit of spare space, and the pics are all elsewhere anyway - any ideas how I do that??!

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