An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member: charging means, including magnetic particles contacted to the image bearing member and a magnetic particle carrying member for carrying the magnetic particles, for charging a surface of the image bearing member; developing means for developing an electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member, the developing means including a toner carrying member for carrying toner, and the toner carrying member having an end which is disposed inside an end a magnetic particle carrying region of the charging means; a transfer member for transferring a toner image from the image bearing member onto a toner image receiving member, the transfer member having an end which is inside the end of the magnetic particle carrying region; a cleaning member for removing the toner from the image bearing member after transfer operation of the transfer member, the cleaning member having an end which is outside the end of the magnetic particle carrying region; and an auxiliary cleaning member, disposed upstream of the cleaning member with respect to a rotational direction of the image bearing member, for removing subsidiarily the toner from the image bearing member by contacting the image bearing member, the auxiliary cleaning member having an end which is outside the end of the magnetic particle carrying region.