How to delete all
screenshots on iPhone.

Where screenshots are on iPhone

iPhone saves each screenshot to your photo library, and Photos gathers them in one place: Media Types › Screenshots. Nothing else is in that list, so you can clear it without touching your other photos.

Select all screenshots and delete them

1. Open Photos and find Media Types: on iOS 26 or later tap Collections, then scroll down; on iOS 18 scroll down.
2. Tap Screenshots.
3. Tap Select, then Select All. To pick only some, tap them or slide your finger across them.
4. Tap the Trash button, then confirm.

Empty Recently Deleted

Deleted screenshots stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days and still use space until then.

1. In Photos, find Utilities: on iOS 26 or later tap Collections; on iOS 18 swipe up.
2. Tap Recently Deleted, tap View Album, then unlock with Face ID or your passcode.
3. Tap Select, tap the More button, then tap Delete All and confirm.

Screen recordings too

Screen recordings are videos, so each one takes far more space than a screenshot. They have their own list: Media Types › Screen Recordings. Select and delete them the same way.

Sort them faster

Phone Cleaner lists Screenshots and Screen recordings as their own categories on the Clean tab, each with its size. A separate Similar screenshots group collects the ones you took more than once and keeps one from each set. Nothing is deleted until you tap Delete Selected.

Step 1 of 5On the Clean tab, the Screenshots card shows the space they take: 3.9 GB. Tap it.

Step 2 of 5All 1,284 screenshots in one place. Tap Select All.

Step 3 of 5Every screenshot selected: 3.9 GB. Tap Delete Selected.

Step 4 of 5One tap clears them from your library.

Step 5 of 51,284 screenshots removed. They wait in Recently Deleted, and the 3.9 GB comes back when you empty it, or after 30 days.

Step 1 of 4On the Clean tab, Screenshots has a card of its own. To decide on them one at a time, tap Swipe.

Step 2 of 4Under Utilities, tap Screenshots.

Step 3 of 4Your screenshots play one at a time: tap Trash or swipe left to send one to Trash, tap Keep or swipe right to keep it.

Step 4 of 4The Trash pill on Swipe opens Review & Remove: here, 5 screenshots, 11.1 MB. Switch off any you want to keep, then tap Remove. Removed screenshots wait 30 days in Recently Deleted.