How do you select multiple photos in iCloud?

Hello Tiggertiffany,

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If you need to select multiple items on iCloud.com then you can use the common procedure to select multiple items by either holding Command or Shift on your keyboard.

To select multiple files or folders, hold down the Command (⌘) key, then click the items.

To select multiple files or folders that are listed together, click the first item you want to select, hold down the Shift key, then click the last item.

OS X Yosemite: select files or folders

Have a great weekend,

Alex H.

Took me a little while to figure this out through brute force of clicking on every option available. Since I pulled up your question while searching for a solution, and noticed that quite a few people had chimed in on your thread for a solution, I figured that I would reply to you in hopes that it would eventually reach the masses. Yes, it is possible to download all of your photos from iCloud using the App (I tried to find a way to do this via the iCloud website, and couldn't figure out a way) on a Mac/PC, but you will need to do a few things on your PC before going through the steps that I'll outline below (Sorry Mac Users, the process is similar, but I really don't want to pull out my MBP 101 to write up a how to). Install, configure and login to the iCloud app in Windows, and note where the "Downloads" folder is located on your PC so that you can navigate there later to manage the photos & videos after they are on your local hard drive. I suggest connecting your computer directly to your router via an Ethernet Cable to prevent any transmission errors that may be encountered when using WiFi to download your iCloud photos and videos. Now on to the steps:

1. Locate the System Tray located in the lower right corner of your display. If the iCloud icon isn't displayed, click the up arrow to expand the System Tray.
   
2. Click on the iCloud System Tray Icon to access the iCloud dialog box which will give you options to control the iCloud app and items associated with your account. Here you will find a section for iCloud Photos with a button to "Download Photos" that you need to click to download your photos.
   
3. The "Download Photos and Videos" dialog box should pop up. Click the appropriate Check Box next to specific years you would like to download. More than likely you are looking for the "All" entry to download all photos and videos.
   
4. Depending upon how many photos and or videos that are stored in your iCloud account, you may experience a long wait while downloading your items. The only download progress indicator that I could find was in the iCloud Dialog Box mentioned in Step 2 where it says "Downloading x,xxx Items".

Hope this helps! ^_____^

See LACAllen's work-around in this discussion: Re: iCloud - Can't select mass photos

You can use the Share menu to select all photos in a moment.

Use the SHARE icon to select the entire moment. then click away to remove the SHARE feature, but the entire moment stays selected

Then use the Download button.

Agree with the fed-up users on here : Extremely annoying that Apple would change the simple, common, fundamental functionality of being able to Shift-Click to select multiple photos from "All Photos". Especially since it was already there!! It's baffling as to why they would even take this out. Restore this immediately, please.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

Feedback

Thanks, but even when I have 1000s of pics selected, and by comon sense i push the download buton in browser

its opening 1000s of dialog windows to select destination, in case of google or gmail, thers an option to download all together in a folder or zip downloading.

Anyways .. dont You think that this class of product needs to be more intuitive ?

for example. when You are in icloud.com u can navigate tu albums or pics, when You are into the album You can select , but in albums root i cant select by album... A logic question- WHY ?

why should i ask You to help me to download my own fotos from my own phone to my own PC... ?

A logic question- WHY ?

The iCloud web interface is not meant to be the main access to download all your photos to your computer. It is a tool to browse your photos, if you cannot access your computer and to download a few photos if you cannot get access to your main Photos Library.

But the more convenient way to download your photos from your iPhone to a mac is to use the Photos.app on the mac. And if you are using a different brand of computer consider to use My Photo Stream to transfer new photos wirelessly.

Shift does not work to select multiple photos that are sequential in iCloud Photos. Can only use command and must click them individually. There must be a faster way to select multiple (but not all) sequential photos--at least I hope there is.

I used to use the shift key all the time to select a range of photos to download from the icloud. Why is this function gone? Why would you take away a perfectly good, universally known function? This user is very annoyed!

Thanks for letting me know. I'll post my feedback, because sometimes I need to access my iCloud/Photos from browser (my work notebook has Windows installed) and it would be useful select multiple images using shift and delete them when you are not using Photos app in macOS.

You can download each "moment" with one click. Choose the "select moment" on the right and then download.

It will still download each image individually, but with just the one click.

That doesn't works now, maybe some deploy broke it...

Now hold the command key, but you have to click each photo.

Still unable either to use shift key to select an interval of photos or to select all when using web browser. It is just stupid...

They are just trying to make your life difficult if you want to get rid of the bloody useless, or costy, icloud.