ICloud Photo Library: batch download photos

What I did is select the first photo then when to the bottom and selected the last photo while holding shift. I downloaded all of the selected items (over 1,000). Though it downloads every image individually, you can go into your downloads folder and ignore the ones within your browser so you don't have to save them individually.

I just figured out a way to do it. If you want to download a big chunk or all photos.

Go to to iCloud.com, photos, albums, all photos, click select, click the first photo, scroll to the last and shift click. That should have selected all of the photos, now download.

Comashey wrote:

I just figured out a way to do it. If you want to download a big chunk or all photos.

Go to to iCloud.com, photos, albums, all photos, click select, click the first photo, scroll to the last and shift click. That should have selected all of the photos, now download.

I also use this procedure. But occasionally it gives me this problem: when the download ends I see that there are missing files. Like I selected 200 photos and in the download folder I see 190. This is very unnerving. I solved by downloading small batches of 30 photos. Of course it's super slow if you have 2000 photos.

If you plug your iphone into your computer, Windows usually has a pop-up window and one of the options is to import photos and videos. It works great for me, and then iCloud does allow bulk delete online.

In windows 7 and firefox, start downloading only one picture: when the dialog box pops up, just tick "save file" (usually in your default download folder) then check box "do this automatically for files like this from now on". Now you can select all pictures in icloud and start downloading, you dont need any more to confirm one by one. Speed depends on your wifi connection, for me a couple of seconds per picture.

If you want to revert to manual confirmation, just go back to firefox "preferences" menu then "download".

Safari on a Mac by default saves files in your chosen folder without opening dialog boxes. If you are using Chrome you can uncheck "ask where to save files" before starting your batch download. Maybe you also want to chose a specific new folder just for this download.

Would be nice to know if someone is working on this, Apple..!? I like the small photo on phone, large photo in cloud option but I have always maintained my own backup. I would like to download all my photos at once and not select one at a time.

I tried to do the same thing, download all my photo library but it's actually impossible to do it easily on PC.

So i just found someone with a macbook to use the "photos" application on his mac...

So yes, i hope they will implement something like a button to download a zip with all your photos on icloud.com

Or implement the photo library sync on PC in the icloud software

What would be really great is if iCloud Control Panel could sync photos onto your PC (Similar to Dropbox and how this functionality works on Mac). I am starting to regret keeping the master photos in the cloud as I just keep paying to increase the size of my iCloud storage, and can't get my photos onto my PC. HELP APPLE!

Wow. And what happens, if you really want to save them on your hard disk? If you want to download 4000 photos you get exactlty 4000 dialog boxes that ask you for the directory where to save the data. One after another. That keeps you busy ... let me see .. until Christmas 2028.

This no longer works in 2017, at least using the Chrome browser. There seems to have been a changed (Win10 + Chrome) in iCloud where CTRL/SHIFT keys with Left Click or even CTRL+A for Select All (standard windows command keys) doesn't work.

Selecting multiple using CTRL+Left Click still forces you to download 1 photo at a time in separate pop-up windows ... VERY inefficient Apple.

Ive "solved" this by changing browser, in FF I got same issues as everybody else, multiple dialog boxes however in chorme download starts without dialog boxes popping up and seems reliable so far.

I haven't managed to multi-select pictures though. Ive tried just any key on my keyboard.

Same Problem. Just realized that I can not do what I always postponed: Download originals from iCloud Photo Library and delete them there. I, too, keep paying Apple for keeping my photos hostage on their Servers.

THIS really helped me. I was getting the dialog box problem to where the number of dialog boxes literally overwhelmed my poor little iMac (2009) and here's the worst part - NOT ALL of the dialog boxes actually make it through! So when it's all done, and I have the folder there in front of me, not every photo had made it.

I gave up part way through, due to my computer choking on 716 dialog boxes, and TonToni, your advice REALLY helps. I have set a temp folder for them to go into, unchecked the box that Chrome has there in the settings, and now we are off to the races. Thank You for taking the time to reply.