How To Get Permission To Delete Photos On Iphone

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To better assist you with your concern and to provide you the most appropriate advice, we have a couple of questions for you. Provide us the details by answering these questions:

Did you change the file permission settings on your phone before you transfer the files?
Have you tried disabling the picture management in your Cloud storage on your phone?
What are the steps that you've already tried?

Any additional information would be helpful.

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I contacted Apple and they confirmed this has nothing to do with the file permission settings on my phone.

If I disable my iCloud picture management hundreds of pictures will be removed from my phone...I am trying to move them onto my laptop so they are not lost.

The Apple help team said this is a permissions issue on the Windows side, but I cannot figure out how to fix the issue.

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Are you signed in as the administrator on your new laptop? If yes, but you can't delete the files, and it's giving you the error message "You do not have permission to delete files," you can take the ownership of the files or folder. To do that, follow these steps:

Right-click on the file or folder and go to Properties . Under Properties, click on "Security" Tab.
Click Advanced, then click Change from the Owner tab.
Click on Replace owner on subcontainers and object and click Apply.
Once you click on Apply, you'll see a warning message. Click on Yes to proceed, then click OK.
Next, click Advanced again.
Now under the Advanced permissions, you will see the option to add Multiple Objects. Add multiple objects and to inherit permission you can click on Change Permissions, then you can enable basic permissions.

After applying the changes on the permission, you can try deleting the files again.

Let us know how this turns out for you.

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Thank you for your suggestion.

When I right click and select Properties, only the General tab appears, not Security.

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Thank you for your suggestion.

When I right click and select Properties, only the General tab appears, not Security.

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The options and settings will be limited if you're not using an administrator account.

For us to further assist you with the deleting items issue, we'd like to verify if you're using an administrator account?

We're looking forward to your reply.

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Hi,

Confirming I am the Administrator.

Kind regards,

Erin

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Hi,

Confirming I am the Administrator.

Kind regards,

Erin

Thank you for your reply.

To enable the Security tab, you may follow the steps provided by ThofikhAhamad from this link.

Once the Security tab is already enabled, please follow the steps provided by Marque Lor.

For more steps to take ownership, check Vanessa Sohtun's post on this link.

We'll be waiting for your reply.

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The thing is, I am able to see the security tab on other folders, it's just this picture folder I cannot see it in....so frustrating!

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The thing is, I am able to see the security tab on other folders, it's just this picture folder I cannot see it in....so frustrating!

Can you provide if the drive is formatted as NTFS or FAT32?

To check the File system, open This PC > right-click the drive > select Properties.

If the drive is formatted as NTFS, please see this article for the possible causes and how to resolve this issue.

We would appreciate an update about how it went

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