Facebook is so far the best social networking platform that allows you to save your important memories for as long as possible where you can always retrieve them. By implication, every photo you upload on the platform remains there until you decide to delete them. If you're reading this article chances are, you may have uploaded some photos accidentally and need to delete them, or you just looked through your old albums and you're quite embarrassed at the type of photos you have hanging there for the world to see, hence you want to get rid of them as soon as possible before someone mischievous gets a hold of them, Or it's probably some photos of your ex. This article would guide you on how to delete those unwanted photos from your Facebook profile. There are two ways to go about deleting your photos. If the photos you want to delete aren't all arranged in one album, then you have to select them singly and delete them.

How To Delete Multiple Photos On Facebook Mobile Uploads

To Delete an Album

  • First, open your Facebook app and log into your account.
  • Tap on your Profile icon, it's usually beside the "what's on your mind?" dialog. If you're using the Android version of the app, then the Profile icon would be located at the top of the screen, but if you're using an iPhone, you would find it at the end on the screen as you scroll down.
  • Next, tap on "Photos" in the category where you have "About" and "Friends".
  • Tap next on "Albums" and tap on "Edit" or tap on the particular album you want to delete (As it applies to your device).
  • Then tap on "delete", for Android devices, you would need to tap on the "Menu" first before "delete".
  • This action will automatically clear out all the photos you have on that album.

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To Select The Photos You Want To Delete

  • Log into your Facebook account.
  • Tap on your Profile icon, it's usually beside the "what's on your mind?" dialog. If you're using the Android version of the app, then the Profile icon would be located at the top of the screen, but if you're using an iPhone, you would find it at the end on the screen as you scroll down.
  • Next, tap on "Photos" in the category where you have "About" and "Friends".
  • Go to "Uploads" and tap on it.
  • Next, select the photo which you want to delete and tap on the ellipsis icon at the top of the screen when the photo opens. However, if you don't see either a vertical or horizontal ellipsis icon, simply tap on the photo and select "Delete Photo" from the pop-up list.
  • Next, a dialog would open, asking you if you're sure you want to delete photo and post. Tap on delete.
  • This action would delete the photo which you chose. You can repeat the same process to delete other photos.

What You Should Know About Deleting Photos on Facebook

  • You can only delete a photo uploaded by you – As much as you might want to get rid of some photos you were tagged to, you simply can't, because it wasn't uploaded by you. The most you can do in such a case is to prevent the post from appearing on your timeline.
  • You can't delete albums that were not created by you – You can't delete the photo album of your Facebook friends and those created by the Facebook team, you can only delete an album that you created.

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