How to delete all screenshots on iPhone

Updated September 2026 · iOS 16 and later

Short answer: Open Photos → Albums → scroll to Media Types → Screenshots. That is every screenshot in your library in one album. Tap Select, choose the ones you want gone (or Select All), tap the trash icon, then empty Recently Deleted to actually reclaim the space — items sit there for 30 days first, recoverable.

What the built-in album will not do

The Screenshots album puts everything in one place, but it does not organize it any further. If you screenshotted the same receipt, chat, or map four times, all four sit in the grid as four separate things to look at and decide on individually.

No grouping. Repeated screenshots of the same screen are not identified as a set — you scroll and decide on each one.
Select All works, but it is all-or-nothing for the whole album; there is no way to select "just the repeats" without picking through by hand.
Space is not freed on delete. Deleted screenshots stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days and still count against storage until that album is emptied.

Where an app helps

Photodrift groups screenshots that show the same screen into a cluster — comparing them visually on-device, not just by when they were taken — and defaults to clearing the whole group in one swipe. That default is deliberate: five shots of the same checkout page are not five photos worth picking a favorite from, the way a burst of a sunset is. The whole group is the clutter. If one of the five is worth keeping, tap into the group to rescue it before swiping. Swipe left to delete, right to keep, or use the buttons under the card instead of swiping.

Screenshot groups are part of the paid unlock, not the free tier. Free covers exact duplicates (photos with matching metadata — re-saves, AirDrops, same-second bursts), with no limit. Pro adds the rest: near-duplicates, blurry shots, screenshot groups, and videos — which are usually where the gigabytes actually are. Pro is a one-time $9.99 unlock, no subscription. See Support for the full Free vs Pro breakdown.

Before you delete anything

Check iCloud Photos. If it is on, deleting on one device deletes everywhere. That is usually what you want, but it is worth knowing.
Recently Deleted still holds the space. For 30 days, deleted screenshots count against storage. Empty it if you need the space now.
Shared albums are separate. Screenshots in Shared Albums do not count against your storage and are not part of any of this.

More guides

Questions about how Photodrift itself behaves — iCloud, restoring a purchase, what Free vs Pro covers — are answered on the Support page.

Written by the developer of Photodrift. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell me and I will fix it.