How to Delete Photos on Android with 4 Methods

You can save every memorable moment of your life in a photo on your Android phone or tablet. However, as you take more and more photos on your Android, one issue, which almost every Android user will encounter, occurs – storage running out, or some of your photos on Android are too personal and need privacy protection.

Therefore, if you need to delete photos from your Android phone to free up space, or you’re facing can’t delete photos from your Android phone, just read this post and get your answer. In this tutorial, we will share how to delete or permanently photos on Android selectively or wholly. Besides, you can fix can’t delete photos here. Check them now!

How to Delete Photos from Gallery

Gallery app is the default place where you can find all photos taken by the camera and other pictures from other sources. In this app, you can choose as many as you want to delete, not a picture at a time anymore.

To delete photos from Gallery:

1. Launch the Gallery app.
2. Tap the Menu button.
3. Choose Camera Roll to access all of your pictures on Android.
4. Tap the three-dots button > Choose Select > Check the photos you want to remove from Android.
5. Tap the trash icon and click OK to confirm.

This way would be a perfect choice if you only have dozens of items to remove. While if you have hundreds and thousands of pictures to delete, or all, selecting manually would be a huge amount of work to do. But you can move to the next tips to get rid of such problems.

To restore photos from Gallery:

1. Open the Gallery app and click the three dots menu.
2. Select Trash > Select the photos you want to restore > Click Restore.

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Why Can’t I Delete Photos from my Android Gallery?

Some users have reported that they can’t delete photos from the Android phone Gallery app. It may be caused by the App cache, low system version, false system settings, etc. If you also got the problem – can’t delete photos from Gallery, only certain photos that won’t delete, or don’t have any Gallery app, you can solve the problem with the below methods.

Method 1. Permanently Delete Photos to Fix Can’t Delete Photos

DroidKit is a software that allows you to manage & transfer photos. When you connect your phone to a computer, it helps you permanently delete photos from your phone. You can preview and delete all photos wholly or selectively, so you can free up space with a click. And, before deleting, you can choose to transfer photos to your computer, or to a USB flash drive for backup.

Besides, if you accidentally delete some photos, you can also use DroidKit to recover photos with Quick Recovery mode or Deep Recovery mode. As a complete Android solution, DroidKit allows you to extract data from broken Samsung, remove screen locks, bypass FRP locks, fix various Android system issues, etc.

Check how can you permanently delete photos from Android:

Step 1. Once you installed DroidKit on your PC/Mac, launch the software and you will preview what can DroidKit do for you – Data Manager, Data Recovery, etc. Here we choose the Device Manager option under the Data Manager function to start deleting photos.

Step 2. Connect your phone via USB cable and you will get the main page as below. Select Photos under Manage by Category, which enables you to preview all photos on your phone.

Step 3. Here are the options for you to transfer photos to the computer, add photos, and delete photos. Once you decide, select all photos with an album and click on the Delete button.

Method 2. Delete Photos on Android Using Google Photos

Google Photos is a photo-sharing and storage service developed by Google. With it, you can also achieve the goal of Android photos deleting selectively.

Step 1. Open the multi-colored pinwheel app.

Step 2. Tap the three-dots button.

Step 3. Choose Select to check the photos you want to delete.

Step 4. Tap the trash icon, and click the Move to Trash button to start deleting.

How to Delete Photos on Android using AnyDroid

AnyDroid is a professional Android data manager. With its help, you can perfectly put your Android data right at the place you want. And deleting photos on Android would be an easy thing using it. All of the photos on your Android will be displayed in albums, and you can easily find what you want. Unlike the three ways above, AnyDroid does not only support deleting photos on Android singly and selectively but also removes all items at one time. Why not give it a try, and follow the steps below to start the job now?

Step 1. Run AnyDroid on your computer > Connect your Android device to it.

Step 2. Scroll down to the category page > Choose Photo Library.

Step 3. Then all photos on your Android will be displayed with album names > Select the photos you want to remove > Click the trash icon to delete the selected pictures.

Further Reading: How to Clear Cache on Android Phone to Get More Space >

How Do I Delete Photos on Android but Not Google Photos?

If you want to delete photos on your device for more space, but want to keep them for backup, you can first transfer photos to a computer and delete them via DroidKit. And, there is a way to delete photos on Android but not Google Photos. Usually, you can still see your photos in Google photos when you delete copies of photos on your phone. But if you delete or permanently delete photos on your Android Gallery, photos will also be deleted from Google Photos.

How to delete photos on Android but not Google Photos:

1. Open Google Photos > Library.
2. Tap the three dots at the top left corner.
3. Choose “Delete from device”, or “Delete Device Copy”.

Also Read: How to Delete Photos from Google Photos But Not on My Phone? 

The Bottom Line

With these methods above, you can totally complete the job of deleting photos on Android. And the complete Android solution – DroidKit enables you to transfer photos from phone to computer, then delete all photos with a click. It can also recover accidentally deleted photos from your Android device. Feel free to give it a try right away!