Facebook is the world’s largest social media website. People are on it all the time, and they upload a lot of photos. Hundreds of millions of photos go up every day. That means, eventually, you may want to delete a few of them. After all, potential employers may look through your photos, and there are probably some old memories you don’t want to relive. We will show you how to delete Facebook photos on almost any platform. Show
Read more: How to use Facebook — everything you need to know There are some minor caveats, though. You cannot delete photos you did not upload to Facebook yourself. You can, however, remove the tag, and that removes the photo from your profile. Additionally, you can ask friends to remove Facebook photos from their profiles. If the photo is particularly egregious, you can also report the photo and hope that Facebook takes it down for violating the terms of service. This tutorial only works for the Facebook photos you uploaded. How to delete Facebook photos on Android and iOSThe mobile Facebook app isn’t quite as powerful as it used to be. It’s actually a fairly poor place to manage all of your Facebook photos. However, you can do some basic pruning with the mobile app if you really need to. Deleting individual photosIndividual photos are fairly easy to delete. Simply open the photo you want to delete and then hit the menu (three-dot) button. Select the Delete photo option and confirm. It will delete your Facebook photo after that. This works for profile photos and cover photos as well. Deleting Facebook photo albums and mass deleting photosThis one is a bit tricky but totally doable on Facebook’s current app. You can’t mass-select photos as you do in your gallery app or anything. However, there are ways to delete lots of photos all at once. Open Facebook, navigate to your profile page, and then select Photos. On this screen, swipe left until you reach the Albums tab. Click on an album’s main page and tap the three-dot menu button in the top right corner. From there, select the Edit album option and tap Delete album to delete it along with every photo inside of the album. You can use this little trick to mass-delete Facebook photos as well. Simply create a new throwaway album and add all of the photos you don’t want anymore to the album. Afterward, delete the album and, with it, all the photos you don’t want anymore. It’s a bit tedious, but it works quite well. We should also note here that you cannot delete some albums, including Profile Pictures, Featured Photos, Videos, or Cover Photos. The three-dot option does not appear for those albums. How to delete Facebook photos on the desktopThe website version works almost exactly like the apps do these days. You can delete single photos or photo albums, much like the mobile versions. Also, since this does work the same on any web browser, this method works for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Individual photo deletionIt’s easy to delete individual Facebook photos on the web, and there are two ways to do it. Thankfully, both methods are short and quick to access. Method one
Method two
Delete photo albums (and mass delete photos)Unfortunately, there is no easy way to mass delete photos on Facebook on the web. However, with a little creativity and the album deletion method, you can, in fact, mass delete Facebook photos fairly quickly.
Deleting a Facebook album deletes all of the photos in the album. Thus, to mass delete photos, create a new album and dump all the photos you don’t want into it. After that, simply delete the album, and the photos in it are gone as well. You still cannot delete some Facebook-created albums (like Profile Pictures) this way, but you should be able to delete all of the ones you made. Delete Facebook photos on the mobile webThis method isn’t too different from any of the other ones, but it is a little different, so we thought we would include it in this tutorial. Deleting individual photos on the mobile webThere are a couple of minor methods. To be honest, this version of Facebook feels a lot more disorganized than the desktop website or the mobile app. Anyway, here we go.
Delete albums (and mass delete photos) on the mobile webAgain, this is only slightly different from the regular website and mobile apps. However, it’s different enough to be potentially confusing. Please note you cannot delete Facebook-made albums such as Profile Photos or Cover Photos this way. It only works with the albums you created.
You can use this to mass delete photos the same way as the mobile apps and desktop website. Create a throwaway album, add the photos you don’t want, and delete the album afterward to delete all of those photos. How do I delete whole Albums on Facebook?Scroll down and tap Photos. Tap the album you want to delete. Tap then tap Edit. Tap Delete Album then tap Delete Album.
How do I delete all Photos on Facebook 2022?Open Facebook. You can delete your photos in your browser or in the Facebook app. ... . Click on your name in the top-right corner. ... . Click Photos. ... . Select Albums. ... . Click on the three dot icon next to an album. ... . Click Delete Album.. |