CoreData delete multiple objects

As I know, there isn't a method for that... You should do like you're already doing. There is a method called deletedObjects but it just returns the set of objects that will be removed from their persistent store during the next save operation, as described in class reference.


iOS 9 and later

Swift

let fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest(entityName: "EntityName")
let deleteRequest = NSBatchDeleteRequest(fetchRequest: fetchRequest)

do {
    try myPersistentStoreCoordinator.executeRequest(deleteRequest, withContext: myContext)
} catch let error as NSError {
    // TODO: handle the error 
}

Objective-C

NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] initWithEntityName:@"EntityName"];
NSBatchDeleteRequest *deleteRq = [[NSBatchDeleteRequest alloc] initWithFetchRequest:request];

NSError *deleteError = nil;
[myPersistentStoreCoordinator executeRequest:deleteRq withContext:myContext error:&deleteError];

iOS 8 and older

NSFetchRequest *fr = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
[fr setEntity:[NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"EntityName" inManagedObjectContext:myContext]];
[fr setIncludesPropertyValues:NO]; //only fetch the managedObjectID

NSError *error = nil;
NSArray *objects = [myContext executeFetchRequest:fr error:&error];

//error handling goes here
for (NSManagedObject *object in objects) {
  [myContext deleteObject:object];
}
NSError *saveError = nil;
[myContext save:&saveError];
//more error handling here

iOS10 & Swift 3

    let fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest<NSFetchRequestResult>(entityName: "EntityName")
    let deleteRequest = NSBatchDeleteRequest( fetchRequest: fetchRequest)

    do{
        try mContext.execute(deleteRequest)
    }catch let error as NSError {//handle error here }

This deletes all the objects of EntityName but you can apply additional filtering with NSPredicate