How to delete all screenshots on iPhone at once
iPhone keeps every screenshot in Photos → Albums → Media Types → Screenshots — but deleting them there means tapping each one individually or drag-selecting hundreds without seeing what they are. The safer fast way: filter your library to screenshots only and swipe through them, keeping the few that still matter.
Why screenshots pile up
Screenshots are the junk mail of your camera roll: boarding passes from 2023, memes you already sent, receipts you'll never open. They're small individually but you likely have hundreds — and they bury your real photos.
The all-at-once method (with a safety net)
- Open Sift and tap the Screenshots filter chip — your deck now contains only screenshots, months of them.
- Swipe left to toss; the rare keeper (warranty info, that one recipe) gets a right.
- Open the bin, glance over it once, and Empty.
Because tossed screenshots wait in the bin — and iOS keeps them another 30 days in Recently Deleted — 'all at once' doesn't mean 'gone forever if you make a mistake'.
Can't I just select-all in Photos?
The Photos app has no 'select all' inside the Screenshots album; drag-selecting works but you're committing blind, en masse, with no per-item decision. It's exactly the workflow that makes people afraid to clean. One-decision-per-swipe is barely slower and infinitely safer.
Do it in minutes with SiftSwipe left to toss, right to keep. Free — 60 swipes a day, photos never leave your iPhone.
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