How to extract icloud stored photos to windows 10 PC?

Two easy steps:

Set up and use iCloud Photos on your Windows PC - Apple Support

then

Archive or make copies of the information you store in iCloud - Apple Support

When done, the original pics and videos are safely stored on your PC, and you can delete them (or some of them) from your iPhone, bearing in mind that pics and videos are automatically deleted from iCloud too.

Regards

Giulio

You can always copy photos in your Camera Roll, but I'm not sure how long they'll be there if you're set up to securely copy over to iCloud. However, this support article is supposed to explain it, although I can't test it myself since I don't copy to iCloud.

Download iCloud photos and videos - Apple Support

On your Mac or PC

1. On iCloud.com, click Photos and select a photo or video. Hold the command key on your Mac or control key on your PC to select multiple photos or videos. 
2. Click and hold the download button  in the upper corner of the window. If you want to download your photo or video as it was originally captured or imported, choose Unmodified Original. For JPEG or H.264 format — including edits, and even if it was originally in HEIF or HEVC format — choose Most Compatible.*
3. Click Download.

If your photos download as a ZIP archive, learn how to uncompress the folder on your Mac or your PC. 

ghost1810 wrote:

Im on windows not mac, and I've tried that the date created, date modified and date accessed changes to the current date (today). The strange thing is that I just purchased a $1.29 icloud storage and still no photos are showing up in windows explorer.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/5e86db54-8d55-401a-9ede-5e8ae2b63557

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/1e83249a-6c0b-4e00-8f56-8ea477ba7b68

It shouldn't matter if it's Windows or Mac, as it's a website, and it's possible that it might even work on Linux or Unix computers that can access iCloud.com.

You don't want to do this from your phone, but from your PC. What you're trying to do with your iPhone will only be able to pull up photos directly stored on the phone, but not if you've offloaded them to iCloud. If your photos are stored on iCloud, you can do this simply with access to Apple's iCloud.com website through your PC.

There is also the iCloud Photos app for Windows, but I think that's more about sharing selected photos on your PC to an account on iCloud.com and Apple devices.

Set up and use iCloud Photos on your Windows PC - Apple Support

I had a look at my own iCloud account and I do have photos there, which I guess are limited since I only have the free 5 GB storage. And I've been able to download photos from the iCloud.com website after I logged in with my Apple ID.

But I think some of this might be a little bit confusing, so this would be it step by step.

1) Go to your PC, pull up a web browser, and go to iCloud.com.

2) When it comes up, it will ask you for your Apple ID (email address) first (ENTER) then type your Apple ID Password (ENTER).

3) Click on the Photos icon on the top row.

4) Now you'll more or less see the iCloud Photos screen that SravanKrA displayed. Other than that's on a Mac, it's basically just a web browser interface. You can have this same access on pretty much any browser with a desktop interface.

I don’t know if there’s any way to do exactly that. Once photos have been offloaded to iCloud, they’re virtual files, so they’re not in your Camera Roll on the iPhone any more. I believe all the timing data that iCloud uses to sort them by date is in the EXIF data from the photos, and not the file creation or modification date. Not sure what happens if photos are downloaded back to the device, but I doubt they recreate the file date.

You'll have to look up what might restore an iCloud photo back to an iPhone's DCIM directly as if it went back to a camera roll. The only way I remember doing that was with entire archive of digital camera memory cards, where copying an archive back to a memory card and putting it in the camera worked just as if the camera had taken them. However, I'm not sure there's any way to recover the original file creation date. Once it's offloaded to iCloud, it might just overwrite the creation date similar to how most web browsers modify the file creation date when an image is downloaded from the internet.

See this Apple article: Set up iCloud Drive

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204025

See the pic below which is self-explanatory