How to Delete Screenshots on iPhone in Bulk
Published 2026-08-12 · 4 min read
Open the Screenshots album (or a swipe cleaner's screenshot category) and bulk-delete: almost none of them are worth keeping, and everything restores for 30 days.
A screenshot is a note to your near-future self: a boarding pass, a meme for one friend, a settings screen for one fix. Its useful life is measured in days. Its actual life, in your library, is forever.
Most libraries hold hundreds or thousands of expired screenshots. They are the easiest category to clean, because almost none of them deserve to stay.
The built-in way
Photos has a Screenshots album under Media Types. You can open it, tap Select, drag across the grid, and delete in bulk. It works, but it is all-or-nothing at speed: careful selection across two thousand thumbnails is exactly the chore nobody finishes.
The swipe way: fast and safe
The screenshots category in PicSlid deals them one by one, newest first. Expired ones take half a second each: left, left, left. The rare keeper, a receipt or an ID photo, gets a right swipe and stays.
This is the ideal first session for a new cleanup habit: enormous progress, zero emotional difficulty, and a very visible storage payoff at the end.
Stop the refill
Screenshots will keep coming; that is fine. A monthly one-minute sweep of the category keeps the population near zero forever. The goal is not a spotless library, it is a system that never lets the pile grow teeth again.
If your library is a garage, screenshots are the cardboard boxes: the fastest thing to clear and the reason everything else suddenly fits.
Clean your camera roll the easy way
PicSlid turns everything in this guide into a two-minute daily game. Free to download, 100% on-device.