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Swipe to Clean Up Your iPhone Camera Roll

Go through your photos one at a time: swipe left to delete, swipe right to keep. ByePhotos remembers where you stopped, so a few minutes a day is enough to work through thousands of photos.

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Cleanup progress by month in ByePhotosSwiping through photos with the album bar in ByePhotos

How It Works

  1. 1

    Pick where to start

    Organize by month or by album, or jump into Random, Oldest, Newest, On This Day, Screenshots or Videos.

  2. 2

    Swipe through

    Swipe left to delete and right to keep. Tap an album to file the photo as you go.

  3. 3

    Review and delete

    Photos you swiped away wait in a Pending list. Check them once more, restore anything you want back, then delete them all at once.

Small Details That Make It Fast

One-tap albums

An album bar sits right below each photo. Tap an album to add the photo and mark it as kept.

Progress at a glance

See the completion percentage and how many photos are left. Stop at any time and pick up where you left off.

Gallery view

Swipe down to browse the whole set and multi-select photos to keep or delete in bulk.

Rotate and crop

Fix a photo without leaving the cleanup flow.

Swipe Cleanup FAQ

No. Swiped photos go to a Pending list first. Nothing is removed until you review the list and confirm, and even then deleted photos stay in the Recently Deleted album of the Photos app for 30 days.

No. ByePhotos saves your progress, so you can organize a little every day and continue where you stopped.

Yes. Besides the default left to delete and right to keep, Settings offers a mode where you swipe up to delete and left to keep.

Yes. Swipe cleanup works with photos, videos, Live Photos and GIFs, and you can focus on just screenshots, screen recordings or videos.

It shows the photos taken on today's date in previous years — a nice way to rediscover old memories while you tidy up.

Start Swiping Your Camera Roll Clean

Free to download. Try it on your own photo library.

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