Delete all photos

I've discovered a major issue/bug with the ability to delete all photos on the iPhone. Not only is it difficult to delete all photos with one tap, it's actually not possible.
When you tap the Photos icon from the desktop (by default), you are taken to your albums where there is a Camera Roll album and an edit button. When you tap the edit button, you enter a mode in which you can delete albums. However, the Camera Roll is persistent and has to stay in place, so you can't delete that and if you delete any of your other albums, the contents doesn't actually leave your phone, it's just not categorized anymore.
There is a second method for deleting photos. By tapping the Settings icon, tap General, tap Usage, wait for it to load everything and you can see Photos & Camera. In Photos & Camera you can see Camera Roll. Swipe left or right on Camera Roll to reveal the delete button. Tap delete and you will notice that the screen goes back to Usage and you loose the ability to get back to Photos & Camera. Also, your photos are NOT deleted.
Yes, there is yet another method for deleting photos. If you use iPhotos to import your photos on a mac, you can choose to delete all imported photos. But here's the thing, I use Drop Box to import photos automatically and sync all my files. I don't want to have duplicates on my machine just to delete photos.
There is no way to delete all photos with one tap on the iPhone until this bug is fixed and I really don't want to use iphotos on my mac to manage the photos just to delete all of them. Who do I report this issue to and is anyone else having the same problem?

By tapping the Settings icon, tap General, tap Usage, wait for it to load everything and you can see Photos & Camera. In Photos & Camera you can see Camera Roll. Swipe left or right on Camera Roll to reveal the delete button. Tap delete and you will notice that the screen goes back to Usage and you loose the ability to get back to Photos & Camera. Also, your photos are NOT deleted.
If you follow these steps, it's clear that they have given the user an option to do what I'm trying to do, except, there's a bug so it's not actually following through with the delete function.

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YES you can delete all photos with one easy swipe~!!!! I just discovered how by accident when I went to delete my audiobooks for more storage!! You go to SETTINGS > GENERAL > USAGE > PHOTOS & CAMERA > and then just decide what you’d like to remove~~ either (or all) “Camera Roll” “Photo Library” or “Photo Stream” & Swipe to Delete! Happy deleting everyone!!
http://www.cultofmac.com/138384/how-to-delete-audiobooks-directly-from-your-ios- device-ios-tip/

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I've been trying to do this for a long time. I looked at similar questions and one answer said to take 1000 photos and put them in photo stream. I tried to put all 1000 photos into photo stream, but the one time that I wanted my photos in photo stream, it didn't work! Are there any other ways to delete all photos in photo stream or just plain delete photo stream?? Please help! Sorry, I'm still relatively new to Apple!

Go to the iCloud website and click on your name and then advanced. Hit the reset photostream. This will delete the photos there.
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My camera roll back up on my iCloud is coming up at 5.2 gb
If I turn off the back ups will it delete all photos on my iCloud?
Or delete all photos off my camera roll?

If you turn off your Camera Roll backup from your phone backup on iCloud, your Camera Roll photos won't be included in the next backup, getting 5.2 GB more of free space. Photo Stream has nothing to do with your phone backup, because your photos will still be there until 30 days after adding them, when Photo Stream deletes the photos automatically

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All my photos have been imported to iPhoto library. Is it safe therefore to delete all photos in the finder picture folder? It seems crazy to have them dupllcated ( all are backed up anyway). And are they the full sized images stored in iPhoto?

Assuming you have iPhoto set to the Default setting, then yes, your full sized photos are copied into the iPhoto Library and so you can delete your own stored in the Finder.
Easiest way to check: Select a photo in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder Window should open with the file selected. Is it stored within the iPhoto Library? You can tell easily in the Finder's column view.
As an FYI:
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
There's a similar option in Outlook and many, many other apps. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
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For users of 10.6 and later: You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu.
Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
For Users of 10.4 and 10.5 Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
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Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
Show File: a. On iPhoto 09 and earlier: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. 3.b.
b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.

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Well David, you get the same warning as every other document on your mac.
I'm curious tho'. How many pics in your iPhoto? Because iPhoto generally won't trash more than 100 at a time, for precisely this reason. For instance, if you were in an Album, putting pics in the trash doesn't delete them at all, just removes them from the Album. To delete from the Library you need to be in the Library view (Either Events or Photos).
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TD

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