How To Download Icloud Photos To Pc

If you're the unfortunate user of an iPhone + PC + Windows combination like I am, and then you might accept had the same problem at some point as I've had today: y'all take no idea how to download iCloud photos to your PC, all at once, without saving them 1 by 1. In my case, due to laziness and lots of traveling in the past few months, I now take 7,500 photos on there that I really demand to get "back".

I tried logging on to iCloud.com, but patently, this newest version only lets you pick i photo at a fourth dimension and so download it. Ain't nobody got fourth dimension for dat! Next, I tried getting my photos back via my phone, but that didn't really work either. Later on endless googling and surfing the Apple back up groups I recollect I found the solution: a secret niggling download button on my very computer!

So, but in case anyone else is struggling with this, here's some directions to…

How to download iCloud photos to your PC

1. Download the iCloud app for PC. Kickoff, you'll need to install the iCloud manager app from this folio. Once y'all've installed it and logged in, it should wait something like this:

How to download iCloud photos to your PC

Downloading photos from iCloud to PC: this is how!

ii. Accept a await in the lower corner of your screen. Fingers crossed this will work for you lot likewise, at present: as instructed by some other friendly user on the Apple support forum, you'll now have to wait to the lower left corner of your screen. You know, downward where your printer / clock / battery and all that other little info resides.

See the little iCloud logo? For me, it looks like this.

Photos from iCloud to PC

This icon is the one you're looking for.

three. Next, click on it! It should offer you the following options:

iCloud Photos: download photos / upload photos

And once you click on the "download photos" i, information technology should give you the selection of selecting all of your iCloud photos or year titled folders. From there information technology'south easy breezy, only leave your laptop equally it is and it'll eventually sort out your photos into your iCloud Photos / Downloads folder (located under your iCloud binder).

I'yard currently in the process of downloading my seven,500 photos then far, it'south looking skillful.

By the way… I swear they're not all selfies. I just pretty much accept photos of everything I run into when traveling. But from now on, I might cull to transfer them manually onto my computer so I stay a fleck more than organized!

Happy downloading ?

-Tiia

PS: Do allow me know if this worked for yous. Please also note that this worked for me with the current iOS, the current version of iCloud and a Windows PC laptop – it might not work later (in which case, I'd appreciate if you'd permit me know so I tin make a notation in this post!) or might not work with other combinations.

Tiia / Fangirl Quest

Photographer, illustrator, graphic designer, copywriter, marketing assistant. I in one case traveled across Due north America in flipflops. I beloved dogs, ketchup and many inspiring people. Visit my photo portfolio here.