Remember, the iPad is a truly portable device and that makes it subject to being stolen or lost as real risks. When you do this, you are also backing up the iPad. The pairing of the iPad with the computer via iTunes is a safety factor which people might forget about. But it's a lot faster that manually tapping each image. This method is nowhere near as fast as a 'Select All' function - which we don't have. I then found that once I had selected the images, if I left my finger on the screen and used my other hand to do a scrolling motion, the iPad would scroll to the next page of images, and still leaving my "selection" finger in contact with the screen, I could keep swiping across the images to add to the selection. I found that using Trick #1, I could select the images currently visible on the screen. The next thing I was looking for was a way to select images, scroll to the next page and select more.
Using this I could quickly select many images by just running my finger backwards and forwards across the rows of images. I found that if you tap and hold your finger on the image for a second or two, you can then drag your finger across other images and they will also be selected. Normally you tap an image to select it for emailing or deleting. I tried several things and eventually found some tricks. Looking in the Photos app I could not find any method for bulk selecting the images I wanted to delete. I could have done that and just resynced the images I wanted back to the iPad, but I wanted to just remove some of the images. But that also meant that photos I wanted to keep on the iPad got deleted as well. The only method I could see would be to turn off syncing. I had already synced to the Mac, and now needed to delete them from the iPad. So I figured out this combination of gestures to do it faster.Īfter coming back from a holiday to Europe I had several thousand photos on my iPad. Manually clicking on each photo to select it for deleting would take forever. Recently I needed to delete 2,000 photos from my iPad manually.