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The email account can be accessed using any standard IMAP-compatible email client, as well as the online web app mail client at the iCloud. Retrieved August 30, 2011. I have ~50K photos in iCloud, full versions on Mac, optimized on iPad and iPhone. Problem The modern problem of photo management stems from the fact that we are taking a lot of pictures.
But what if you icloud photo library to remove photos regardless. However, even if I north them, or even all, then there will be new folders with years as nametag created in the download folder, but no download is happening. Find a friend with a Linux OS, plug your phone into their USB port, and drag YOUR photos onto a flash drive just like you would in Prime Explorer. On the free plan, photos are slightly. Retrieved November 14, 2011. Our advice, to avoid despair, is to toggle on iCloud Photo Library on every iOS device you own from Day One of ownership — particularly on iPhone — and then paying for enough iCloud storage space to back everything up. With Markup, you can add text, shapes, sketches, or a signature to your images. Then all you need do is to click the Download icon. Thanks for this solution, Adam13. Retrieved July 2, 2012. They can at least have some sort of online glad. It will be included in an ad-free version for subscribers to the iTunes Match service and is currently available only in the and The streaming Genius shuffle is not available in current versions of but is available in iTunes on the Mac.
You can AirDrop them back and forth, but that gets old after a while. Disabling and deleting your iCloud Photo Library will immediately turn the feature off on all your devices and recover the iCloud storage that was dedicated to keeping full-resolution versions of your original photos and videos.
Guides - You can keep an eye on the status in the bottom center of the browser window. Now, all the photos you added to the folder will be synced to the devices of everyone you shared with.
One of the most common questions regarding using iCloud and iCloud Photo Library is how to download photos from iCloud once they have been stored there. You have a photo on iCloud, and you want to download that photo your Mac or PC — simple, right? How to Download Photos from iCloud to Mac OS X or Windows PC Have a picture or several photos stored in iCloud and you want the raw file downloaded locally on any Mac, Windows PC, or other device? How can I download ALL pictures from iCloud? Those are great questions and certainly worthy feature requests for future versions of iCloud and iCloud Photo management, but what we just outlined above is what is currently available outside of Photos and iCloud Photo Library anyway , so for now you have to manually download the pictures if you want to get them from iCloud Photos on the web. This means the photos will likely end up in your Downloads folder, unless you specify downloads to go elsewhere. That is the only way to download all photos from iCloud currently, so it requires a little bit of manual effort but it works. There are other ways of downloading full resolution pictures from iCloud of course as well, but they require the usage of the iCloud Photo Library feature as well as Photos apps in either Mac OS X or iOS, which puts them off limits to Windows users or from Windows based access. And yes, iCloud Photo Library is supposed to automatically manage and handle photos if you use the service, it will upload them to iCloud, and then download them on demand if requested — but for those who have a large library of pictures or less than stellar internet access, it can be cumbersome or even unreliable. Furthermore, the feature can lead to excess data usage both with a broadband connection and your local device storage, and there are some other curious aspects that can make the feature challenging to use for some specific user situations for me personally, I like direct file access to my photos in their original format without having to rely on downloading the original, maybe I am old fashioned in that regard. How to Download All iCloud Photos to Windows PC Windows users have another option available to them by downloading and installing the iCloud software onto Windows PC and then copying the photos from the file browser. This process is described on Windows 10 below. This process offers an alternative for Windows users who want to download all photos from iCloud to Windows PC. Thanks to the various commenters including and Nick who have confirmed this process as effective. What about downloading pictures from iCloud backups or iTunes backups? As you may know, iCloud backups are separate from iCloud Photo Library. Instead, they arrive as a complete backup package of the entire device. Thus, you can also get photos out of iCloud and iTunes backups made from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, but it requires either restoring a device with that backup in question in the case of iCloud, or the usage of a third party tool if the backup was made with iTunes. Do you know of another easy way to download photos from iCloud? Maybe you know of a method to bulk download all your pictures, or a group of pictures, in their original format and size, from iCloud to a computer? Let us know your iCloud photo tricks in the comments! You can select multiple photos and download them together from iCloud, but yes it would be nice if there was a download all button, or an ability to download photos as a zip archive from iCloud for date ranges, etc. I think it uploads your pictures, and stores a thumbnail locally but then you can get a higher resolution picture by downloading it from Photos app in iOS and Mac. It would be nice if you could just take a picture on your iPhone and know it was stored in iCloud to access anytime you wanted it. I agree with your point about internet speed too, iCloud Photo Library was clearly designed for Cupertino and major global hubs where Comcast and Google Fiber are the norm. Out here in the rest of the USA we have surprisingly tight bandwidth caps and slow DSL, there is no great high speed internet available in my city, so the thought of relying on broadband to access my pictures or anything else reliably or quickly is just out of the question. Finally if you use iCloud Drive like DropBox and create your own folder up there, and upload your pictures manually as files, it would work like that, but it would not be accessible from Photos apps in iOS or Mac, it would only be accessible from iCloud Drive. In fact in less built up areas upgrading networks might actually be easier and far ahead of many areas in the mismanaged bay area. My Mac has Mavericks runs perfect so why mess with it? No iCloud for me My iPad has iOS 6 and runs OK so no iCloud Photos on that either I support Macs on Snow Leopard still as well as Windows computers. Not to mention Android. All of these situations mean that if you want to get pictures from iCloud you go to the iCloud. That is why Apple should allow batch downloads of iCloud pictures from iCloud. It would be a good feature! Apples sat on its laurels after jobs passed for far too long, i know itunes was bad even with him at the helm but they are sliding, with rapid iteration and improvement of chinese phones now, they are simply going to get destroyed soon. Fixating on social issues while their edge is lost, I see this all over silicon valley tech. I will still keep all of my own Info and data — On My computers and my own Backup system. Even computers are going, one sort of way, backward with all external peripherals hanging off of a main CPU. Modern name for server is cloud. I would never put my Gems in a neighbors house. Maybe the ideal solution is to have local physical backups of your data and pictures, and an encrypted online solution with all files accessible online when needed too, assuming you have the high speed internet access to support the latter anyway. Much of this is personal preference though, some like cloud-only storage. Of course I backup my computers to a Time Machine disk as well as saving them to an additional external drive. We both have iPhones so I told her we should share a folder on iCloud and we put all our pictures in one safe place. However we wanted a physical back-up… You know… Just in case! After trying almost everything I remembered I installed iCloud Photos on my Windows laptop. It so happens that all photos in our shared folders are directly downloaded in a folder on my laptop where they are easily accessible and all I need to do is copy and paste the whole folder on an external drive for safekeeping. I hope those problems have been worked out and fixed. Apple describes iCloud Photo Library here: It sounds good if you have broadband, big iCloud 1TB plan, with no data caps on cellular or home networks. I had some 20,000 photos on my Mac, many edited. Is there anything I can do? As batch downloads are not an option. I then imported the restored photos into my Photos app. That took ages and I was really annoyed but at least I recovered the missing photos. Well, at least since the last 12 months And probably even before that , I have been downloading photos in bulk using these simple steps: — Select first photo. Also, in options, you can change WHERE you want these to download to. Then use the same click, scroll to last pic, shift click again to select all in the iCloud and delete all. I FINALLY figured this out and got all my photos downloaded. They all still say the correct date that they were taken. I think I may just have to turn off the optimization. That way all my new photos are actually on my phone — not just thumbnails. Accessing iCloud via the Chrome web browsser, I selected every photo, holding the control key and clicking each photo I wished to download. I then Clicked the DOWNLOAD cloud icon at the top right of my browser window. It first only allowed one photo, but in the upper left Chrome gave me the option to download all selected photos to my Download File Folder. The image quality is useless and the file size is shockingly small, in the order of 30-90KB rather than ~1-3MB that I would expect. Anybody have any recent ideas of how to download multiple photos from iCloud to a PC? I have all of my photos in icloud, but I want to delete them from my phone because they are using about 5 gb, and yes I have done the conversion to make them smaller but again, they are still consuming alot. So I would love to be able to delete them, and have all of them also on icloud. How can I do this. Well, I can move them all from icloud to somewhere on my laptop, maybe dropbox, but I cant select all to download either, so I can go through 5000 photos one at a time and download, unless someone has a work around, that works. None of the ones I have tried that are posted work. The same applies for music. So is there anyone out there that can help. I have windows 10, latest version of Icloud. I have about 900 photos I need to pull off of here before they all go on my new iphone 7. Thanks so much for the article! Now being a Windows users, it is nearly impossible to retrieve all my photos from iCloud Photos. The method to retrieve them in batches in not working for in in IE11 nor Chrome. Something is really rotten at Apple. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know how I can get the select photos option back? Downloaded iCloud for windows, once its done you can download all at once, it creates folders by year which is handy. So far it looks good, I was worried once downloaded the resolution of em pics would be changed lowered , but they look good to me. Any thoughts, any one? Uninstalled icloud on my windows PC and reinstalled. The only thing that automatically downloads is the last couple of months of pictures. No way I can find to force the rest to download. They are holding the pictures hostage which makes we really want to chunk anything apple including their phones and ipads. Most arrogant company I have ever seen. I can see all of my 10,000 pics when I sign into pc and go to iCloud. I just want to get all 10,000 pictures on my passport hard drive so I can delete off of phone to clear up more space. I am cursing my wife for insisting on owning an iPhone, especially since she relies on me to be her tech support on it. It is a terrible device. They are on iCloud, but no simple way to download them! Hate Apple, and iOS10 and 11 have been garbage compared to earlier iOS releases. No proper guidance to fix any of this. I even had trouble downloading 30 files at a time. Occasionally, you would only end up downloading 20-23 of files and there was no way of telling which 23 files were downloaded and which could be deleted. This was the last straw. To be honest, it works decently for bulk downloading iCloud photos to my computer, in just one simple click and no need of iCloud Photo Library feature or Photos app. I recently updated to the latest version of iCloud. I thought the problem was because my Mac is so old early 2009 and runs on El Capitan 10. But maybe instead, it is another way that Apple can herd us into upgrading our iCloud storage. Maybe the upgrade removed those features. But another issue I am having is that I cannot even select multiple photos by using the shift key, ONLY IN THE ICLOUD! Clearly this is an effort by Apple to force every user to pay for upgraded iCloud storage, since this is the most user-unfriendly application that could possibly be designed. I am not going to manually click on hundreds of individual photos, like some kind of savage beast. Tip for other frustrated users — download the Google Photos app on your iPhone — free unlimited photo storage, automatically backed up from your phone, and you can actually get to your files when you want them. It used to be that apple products were simple and intuitive and made things easier. For years I have gone into my DCIM folders in Windows Explorer and every quarter I clean up. I take all my photos and videos and I throw one copy on a desktop hard drive for easy access, one in a fireproof safe and one is kept offsite backed up every 6 months. So it used to be easy. Copy and paste all into one drive. I then use All Sync to easily and automatically create my backups on my hard drives when ready. Then they change the folder structure to this silly create a folder for almost every file thing. I can work around that. Backup then delete to clean phone. Sure you can search as before but to and copy them? Also another folder change. There are now apple folders and cloud folders which I think cause an issue on the search. So now open all the apple folders. Copy all and paste. Then repeat one folder at a time when ready to delete. Not even sure what to do with cloud folders but went in to delete the contents all as well. Try and delete those? So now a bunch of empty folders that took forever to clean out that used to be quick and easy. So then I get a message my iCloud is full. I can understand that. Everything is backed up in triplicate anyways right? Can I access from my PC? I delete all in there. Click the first and it highlights. I have 14,000 photos uploaded. You can use Ctrl + cliuck but if you click once outside of a photo you have to start all over again. In short I hate you now Apple. I have the iPhone 7 as does my wife so you have us for a couple more years. You just have to remove the Apple obstacle, which is iTunes. An easy system: have one computer with iTunes that you use for updating and syncing, and other that you keep Apple-free in order to store your stuff on. Get them onto a hard drive and then never use iCloud again. The problem is once you allow iCloud to store your photos the full files are no longer on your device. I have never used iCloud for photos and I only did it because my new iPad said the storage space was full. No I have lost some photos. I know because they are still in a keynote I did but no longer visible on my iPad or the iCloud backup. This is really crazy. The supervisor thought I could do it by shift click. He is asking the engineering Dept to figure this out and will call me back. If necessary I will manually transfer all photos to my computer. But what about the photos I lost? After this is resolved I will never use iCloud for photos again. Everything will be manually backed up to a hard drive and onto my laptop. A double back up is the only way to go. There is hope for humanity after reading these comments. Its 2:30 am in Mpls and what started I thought as a simple migration from iCloud to my external hard drive has clearly become a disaster 6 hours ago! I wish I could find an updated article on this topic because like all of the previous commenters, with the latest OS X to El Capitan there is no such thing as a download all. They have entangled you in their complex web and making it difficult to free yourself again. Its the typical heavy-handed Apple approach and is extremely unethical. They have disabled shift-click. They have disabled select all. They have disabled download all. They are trying to make it as difficult as possible for you to download all your pictures because that means your leaving. The only way to do it is to select and download them one by one. They hope this discourages you from leaving iCloud. This is one of the most unethical practices I have even seen from a company and regret having bought any Apple product to begin with. Their management has the short-sightedness to think that this practice will keep you as customers but will in fact make you question your entire use of every Apple product and, if you have a brain, will realize that all Apple products need to be avoided because they are manipulating you. We all need to go back to Windows and I made a mistake in ever leaving them to begin with, no matter how many mistakes they have made. Click on the iCloud icon at the bottom right of your screen, i. Now, the download will start, but you will not be told where the photos are downloading to, too much to expect I suppose. Then delete them from iCloud to free up storage. It is not an instantaneous process, the folders downloaded empty at first and it was several minutes before photos started to appear. It will probaby take a few hours to get them all downloaded, so I will turn off my power saving settings. Almost 2000 photos and 200 videos! Another issue I had is that when I selected the photos I wanted grouped by years was the only option available and then start download, I got a message that said there was not enough room on my pc for all the photos. Not really true, but no arguing. Even if I only selected a year that had 2 photos in it, still the same message. I unchecked all other options uploading photos, etc except for icloud library, which I think is still needed for connection with my phone. The dates taken were preserved, as well. Thank you so much for sharing your solution. No pause option either. None of the suggested methods in this blog work on my Windows or Mac devices. Where I had once thought Apple as a good platform for daily use, I am finding more and more reasons to continue with alternate operating systems. If anyone finds a sure cure way of downloading all photos, please post. There no longer appears any way to select all, download all years et al without individually clicking on every photo, which I will do and then set all my devices to NOT save to iCloud. Could it be operator error? Perhaps but I have attempted to follow the suggestions to no avail. I really wish that Apple and Microsoft would kiss and make up so that their products interact better. I also changed the download folder by clicking options next to photos. In that 10 minutes, it has created folders which, I assume, represent the year the various photos were taken. Not one photo has been downloaded to my computer! I assume it just needs time — there are about 10,000 photos! Thanks all for the tips. Can someone please tell me how to do this??? They said there is no way to do it. I also lost photos when I let my iPad transfer some to iCloud because there was no space left. I can see some of them in a keynote presentation I made- those photos are not on my iPad and not in the iCloud backup. They went missing when I allowed iCloud to back them up. I now want to get all the photos that are there out of there onto my laptop and then cancel iCloud. They are asking the engineering Dept what can be done. Apple should warn you that photos can vanish never to be found again if you use iCloud. My iCloud storage is almost full and I thought I would clean up by downloading and storing photos offline. No such solution is possible; instead I have to upgrade my Storage Plan. Ah well, it seems South Park had it right: be ware of Apple! Or, in other words, simply use Microsoft, it will work as designed. They called within 2 mins. Initially they were surprised how hard this was and then they put me through to specific Photos support and they were able to solve this. But … it involves creating a new Photos library on an external drive and downloading all your iCloud photos to that library. From there you open that library in Photos and create folders of however you want to arrange your pictures years, subjects … whatever and export them out to wherever you want them to be. You can then either leave them all on iCloud or delete them knowing you have a safe copy or copies elsewhere. But, it can be done using a mobile. I used AirDrop to transfer images directly from the phone that sent them to iCloud. For that you need Bluetooth which can also be a challenge sometimes, but, I have selected each group I needed from my phone and transferred them. I shall disable iCloud uploads from now on. A real pain in every way. Very badly thought out — politics and restrictive practices — or just bad design? Install and setup the icloud sync software 2. Click iCloud-Photos in file explorer 3. Select the the years you want in the pop-up 5. Even the Apple website help is useless. Are you kidding me? And to add more fun to the process, apple does not even display the name of the photo so it is extremely difficult to know what I have already downloaded except by trying to compare the images. Bottom line, I am switching to android for my next phone. However, I did find an alternative to selecting pictured one-by-one i. If you click one of these, all the pictures from the same date will be selected! The rationale is to trap you in the Apple ecosystem. That has been the first priority for everything Apple has ever done. Find a friend with a Linux OS, plug your phone into their USB port, and drag YOUR photos onto a flash drive just like you would in Windows Explorer. Or better yet, run a free Linux OS off a flash drive 8mb will do , and move the files yourself. If you like what you see, install a Linux OS and dual boot. Linux Mint is easy for Windows users, Mint xfce version if you have an older computer. It boggles my mind that such a simple task as downloading all photos from the cloud is so incredibly difficult and convoluted with iCloud. I have always hated Apple products because as soon as you try to perform a task that is a tad more advanced than what a normal Apple user might do, you have to jump through a million hoops to accomplish it. Click on all and they will come tumbling into your Pictures folder in your PC — full resolution. Male sure you have enough room. I have a Dell laptop running Win10 Home. With over 2300 pics, this was going to be infuriatingly teeeeeedioussssssss. Using the iCloud app for PC is getting the job done so far. It is, however, taking a LONG time for the pics to transfer. Better the process be automated and time consuming, rather than having to manually manage every file transfer for that same amount of time. Also, I found the iCloud icon in my hidden icons tray, as opposed to the right task bar, because of the way I set up the laptop. Thanks for this solution, Adam13! You can use Chrome and then use the ALT or the Windows button PC of course and click on multiple photos. It does select them. You need to create a new Photos library that is empty. Google multiple iPhoto libraries to learn about this. After you create a new library go into preferences and set the empty library to be the system library, there is a button Use as System Photo Library. Then go into Photos iCloud settings check iCloud Photo Library and click download originals to Mac. Photos will now download all iCloud photos to this new library, because the library was empty there is nothing to upload. Thanks for all the tips and hints. Also trying to download pics from icloud on a windows 10 PC. Reached without problem the stage where I can click on download pictures and videos and then select the years I want to download. However, even if I click them, or even all, then there will be new folders with years as nametag created in the download folder, but no download is happening. Anybody who had the same problem and found a solution? Plug in your phone to your Mac. But, maybe someone knows a way to fix this, or maybe the method will work for someone else anyway. This is definitely an intentional thing on apples part, they themselves boast about having such intelligent technology, but this is such a simple necessity in any modern technology with a camera nowadays… just so we have to shell out on more icloud storage. Do NOT use third party tools that claim to do this or anything else, never give anything your Apple ID and passwords, or any other account information. The amount of illegitimate scams out there is staggering. You should only use the trusted iCloud methods, that are directly from Apple and using Apple services. I agree with you greater point though, which is that iCloud and iCloud Photo downloading is unnecessarily difficult, confusing, and becomes a giant hassle. It is not made easy.