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How to delete all photos in the camera roll in iOS 8.x?

I have started using auto backup using OneDrive and it works like a charm. The only problem is that the pictures are left on the phone after being backed up. Is it possible to empty the camera roll ...
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How to save a shared video to my Camera Roll on iOS?

I have the app Photos on my iPad mini, on iOS 7. I am viewing a stream shared by a friend. When I am on a photo, I can save it to my Camera Roll. But, when I am on a video, I cannot save it to my ...
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Photo thumbnails remain in camera roll after moving photos to computer

I'm exporting my photos to my computer by connecting my iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.1) to my Ubuntu 14.04 setup and cutting the photos from the DCIM folder and pasting them on my computer. The photos go ...
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How do I remove ALL PHOTOS from iPhone?

I have 26K photos on a 64GB iPhone 7 and running iOS 12.4 How can I delete all photos en-masse? That is, removing all photos from the iPhone's Camera Roll.
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Can I edit an iPad photo and save both the edited and original version?

I have an iPad 2 running iOS 8. Is there a way to edit a photo and save both the edited and original versions? Does it matter if I make the edit from the photo stream or camera roll? Thank you.
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Lock iPhone Besides On-Screen Content

I am just wondering if iOS devices have the ability to show only on-screen content and lock all other items on the device. For example: say someone got pulled over and the officer required to see a ...
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A particular picture copies by itself multiple times in camera roll every day

I've been using iPhone for many years now but this is the first time I've this problem. I received a picture from a friend, who is on Android. Since then that particular picture copies by itself ...
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Can I delete photos off Camera Roll after transferring to iCloud?

I need space on my iPhone. However I can not sync photos to my computer. If I want to delete photos off my Camera Roll after transferring them to iCloud, will those photos be lost permanently?
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How to clean up camera roll/All Photos on devices with shared iCloud account?

I have quite a few iOS devices on the same iCloud account and the "All Photos" (camera roll?) keeps propagating >9000 images/videos between all devices. I would like to get to "Camera Roll Zero" and ...
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Weird screenshot appears in camera roll

So I recently found a photo of what appears to be a screenshot of a blend of iOS and macOS in my camera roll. It says it was taken on the 1st of September, but I am 100% sure it wasn't there then. I ...
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Save multiple photos from iPhone camera roll to dropbox

As you know, when you're in the camera roll on an iPhone you can select one or more photos from the "send" button and take various actions. One such action I have is "Save to Dropbox", but this is ...
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Can a specific album be chosen ~prior to capturing~ photos on an iPhone or iPad?

Background On mobile devices running iOS / iPadOS (back to at ~least~ versions 11.x): Photos taken by the built-in Camera app go directly to the Photos Library (formerly known as Camera Roll) When ...
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How to change the playback speed of videos on iPhone?

Sometimes it would be nice to not be limited to 1x speed on videos stored in the camera roll of an iOS device, like iPhone. Is there any simple way of toggling the speed, to say 2x or 3x?
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How to get photos from my phone to my mac as quickly as possible?

Right now, the answer would be airdrop as far as I am concerned. I would just take a photo and press the share button and then wait for my laptop to come up. However, I have an older phone and I find ...
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Does the iOS Camera Roll contain all of my photos and videos, incl. what's in my albums?

I have tons of photos in my iPhone Camera Roll. I have also created albums and moved photos around from the camera roll to different albums. Is it true that the Camera Roll actually contains "all" ...
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Photos won’t show on iPhone camera roll until a restart

Since updating my iPhone 12 to iOS 14.6 I have to restart my phone multiple times a day so that new photos, screenshots or downloaded media will show up in my photos, or the camera roll in any other ...
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Pictures show up in Camera Roll but not in the Photos app

When you go to the Camera app, you can click on a thumbnail of the most recent photo and it takes you to a stream of all photos (I think this is referred to as Camera Roll). These have always been ...
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Is it possible to merge camera rolls of two different iPhones?

I have iPhone 7 and iPhone XS Max and both of these iPhones are on the same iCloud account, but have different camera rolls. Is there a way to copy all the photos from the iPhone 7 in to my XS Max ...
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How do I save multiple images from my Dropbox app to my Camera Roll

I need to save multiple photos from my Dropbox to my camera roll. From what I can see you can only do one at a time. Is there a way to this by folder? I have 60+ images and and doing one at a time ...
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Camera app on iPhone 4 suddenly deletes the sound of 5 previous videos and all future ones!

I use an iPhone 4 to record videos with the Camera App. Suddenly, the 5 most recent videos got muted sound for no reason at all. The rest of the Camera Roll still has audio. Just those 5 videos got ...
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Camera Roll vs Photos App, what name is correct?

What is the name of the default native App that stores all photos and pictures on an iOS device? Since iOS 8 it seem to be called "Photos" were before Apple used to call it Camera Roll. Or do I mix ...
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ICloud problems

If I turn off my camera roll iCloud backup and it deletes all my photos from iCloud, when I turn it back on will my photos be restored to iCloud?
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Problem with moving photos to new album on iPhone [duplicate]

I created a new iPhone album, later I moved some photos from Camera Roll to the new Album. The problem is that when I delete the moved photos from the Camera Roll, I can't find them in the new Album. ...
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Dropbox public link video - downloading onto an iPad

I'm trying to get this 70mb video, which I have uploaded to a public Dropbox folder onto this lady's iPad. She doesn't have a computer and I don't want her to have to do too much work to get this ...
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Changes to Photos. Where did Camera Roll and Photo Stream albums go?

In iOS 7, the Photos app has 2 default folders for pics. Camera Roll My Photo Stream In iOS 8, the default folders is now: Recently Added Recently Deleted How do you manage what's on Photo Stream ...
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Set the date in Camera Roll to the value from EXIF

When I import photos directly from my Sony a7 camera they are saved in the Camera Roll with the date/time of the import. The correct date/time is still preserved in the EXIF within the image, but I ...
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Deleting Photos, what iCloud saves and how to access things from iCloud and device storage issues [closed]

My understanding (erroneous as I may be told this is) is that iCloud is like a virtual external drive to some extent. Maybe that is my first mistake. But before everyone starts saying to look at other ...
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iPad Air - deleted photo appears over and over again and copies itself [duplicate]

The picture I've received via Viber deleted already 40 times appears over and over again in camera roll and photo stream ! How do i delete?
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