# Deleting photos from an observation

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deleting-photos-from-an-observation/6787>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 26, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deleting-photos-from-an-observation/6787 "2019-09-26T14:19:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![pei-ott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/pei-ott/32/4733_2.png) [@pei-ott](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pei-ott)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deleting-photos-from-an-observation/6787/1 "2019-09-26T14:19:33Z")

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How can a photo be deleted from an observation? I’m trying to fix an observation that includes two individuals of the same species but am unable to delete one individual. Duplicating the observation didn’t help - now I have 2 observations in the same state! Thanks for any help…

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**Author:** ![cmcheatle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cmcheatle/32/37_2.png) [@cmcheatle](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cmcheatle)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deleting-photos-from-an-observation/6787/2 "2019-09-26T14:22:35Z")

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Can you please clarify if you need this for the website version or one of the mobile apps

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**Author:** ![GeraldA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/geralda/32/4602_2.png) [@GeraldA](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/GeraldA)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deleting-photos-from-an-observation/6787/3 "2019-09-26T17:14:42Z")

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> [@pei-ott](#):
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> How can a photo be deleted from an observation?

In edit mode, just untick “Sync?” as many as you want to delete and then press “Save observation”

 ![sync](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/1/1386c098ae004275b0df18e39775e3118d1a7c3e.png)

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**Author:** ![jdmore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jdmore/32/1116_2.png) [@jdmore](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jdmore)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deleting-photos-from-an-observation/6787/4 "2019-09-26T18:04:34Z")

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@GeraldA has the right solution - just untick the photos you don’t want and save.

Note that clicking on the word “Sync?” itself will do something different – it will re-read the photo metadata (date, location if any, etc.) from that photo and make those the data for the observation. If you accidentally do that without intending to, just cancel instead of saving.

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**Author:** ![pei-ott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/pei-ott/32/4733_2.png) [@pei-ott](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pei-ott)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deleting-photos-from-an-observation/6787/5 "2019-10-11T23:46:24Z")

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Just the website version - all I want to do is fix up the observations.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deleting-photos-from-an-observation/6787/6 "2019-12-10T23:55:19Z")

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