Boarding passes, receipts, recipes, funny messages: most screenshots are useful for a day and then sit in your library for years. Here’s how to clear them without scrolling through every photo.
In the Photos app
- Open Photos and go to Media Types → Screenshots.
- Tap Select, then drag your finger across the thumbnails to select many at once.
- Tap the Delete button and confirm.
It works, but the album only sorts by date, and selecting thousands of items by dragging takes a while.
With Photo Cleaner
Photo Cleaner shows all your screenshots in one grid and adds a few things that make clean-up faster:
- Timeframe: show only screenshots older than a few months, or from a specific period.
- Largest first: high-resolution iPad and Mac screenshots float to the top.
- Total size: the Overview shows how much space screenshots take compared with photos and videos.
- Selection size: see how much you’ll free before you delete.
Keep the few that matter
Before a big clear-out, favorite or add to an album the screenshots worth keeping: an important confirmation, a recipe you use, a photo of a document. Then delete the rest with a clear conscience.
Make it a habit
Screenshots pile up because they’re taken without thinking. A monthly pass takes a minute: open the screenshots, select everything older than a month, keep what matters, delete the rest.
Deleted screenshots stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days, so you can still recover something you need.
