How do you select multiple photos in iCloud?

My solution:

• Installed Google Photos - free photo app on my iphone.
• Uploaded all my photos to my google account (14.000 photos took about 24 hours, I just let it sit and work.)
• Now when I use my PC browser to open google photos I can do what I used to do on icloud, select the first of a range of photos, hold the shift key, select the last in the range.
• Tell it to download these photos
• This generates a Photos.zip file in my downloads folder
• I can then copy and paste these photos to where I want them on my PC or external drive for backup

Disadvantages:

• A photo that was 2.02 MB when downloaded from icloud, is now only 1.38 MB large if I use the free unlimited service google offers. If I use the other "keep original" option I get 15GB of space free from google and keep the photo quality.
• I have another app using space on my device

Sure I wish I could go back to what I still think is a nobrainer, Apple. Give me back the former, easy, intuitive, version of icloud photos, please!

"But the bigger problem anyway is, that selecting multiple photos does not download them properly as an entity in one go, but opens a separate download window for each of them."

this can be fixed by going into safari preferences, general tab, and changing file download location. have a good day

That's it! It's obvious! They don't want you to manage easily lots of files to free some space.

Been an Apple user since 1994, and I hate windows and android, but with this stupid "bugs" Apple is pushing me to find alternatives.

I'm running Sierra and wondering why I can't do a "select all" and how could there possibly not be function to do so! I've got over 4,000 photos and the 'cmd + shift' action is not working! Can't we get an update on this MAJOR flaw in lack of intuitive design?

I've recently turned off iCloud and the "undo delete" button didn't respond and now I'm stuck downloading my pictures but at this rate I'm going to need more than 30 days.

Please advise!

This is driving me insane. I have plenty of storage on icloud I just want to save a back up on my external hard drive of the billion pics I have on there right now. I do want to delete the pics on my iphone so my phone has enough room on it so it doesn't keep glitching. Who has time to click on each picture?????!! It would take me ridiculous amounts of time to click on each one and I am so ******. Apple is really evil for this. I have Apple everything (every iphone, watches, imac, laptop, tv....) this is really stupid to try to profit from more icloud storage. You guys completely forgot about all the other functionalities of a select all - aren't you supposed to be user friendly and intuitive?!! AGGHHHH!!! I will have to take leave from work and ignore my kids just to try to select every picture of them.

ALSO - *** is up with the cumbersome print screen situation?! WHYYYYY?!!

Well, you cannot manage large amount of photos in iCloud Photo Library any longer at all using the web interface. We cannot select large amounts of photos to download them or To delete them. We could never search efficiently either. The most efficient way is to use Photos on an Apple device right now, but I hope Apple will fix this problem soon.

Shift and Command select still works in the desktop Photo's app if you have access to that. You can use that to select multiple photos and then sync. Don't forget to delete them from Recently Deleted Photos album if you're trying to recover space.

You're right, but most people seem to want to download just 100 or so pics from the last couple of weeks or so, without having to select each one individually.

To get all photos wouldn't you use icloud for windows? I hate that it keeps wanting to update. Totally annoying. But you can choose to download everything at once.

I finally gave in and selected each one individually. I then deleted all my photos from iCloud and uninstalled ICloud from my PC as I am continuing with my original plan to quit Apple altogether. Ordering a Pixel phone today.

OK, so you have not clearly stated what it is you are attempting to do. Are you saying that you turned on iCloud Photo Library, uploaded all of your photos to iCloud Photo Library, and now want to turn it off? Where is it that you want to "Select All", and for what purpose? What action is it that you are attempting to take?

There seems to be a misunderstanding potentially here about iCloud Photo Library and how it works. Not sure where the "Undo Delete" button comes into play here? What was deleted, and what deletions were you attempting to undo?

Can you start from the beginning and clearly state what happened, what you are trying to do to rectify the issue, and what issues you are running into?

Cheers,

GB

I pretty much stated clearly that I need to back up my photos from iCloud and I am being forced to click through 4,000 photos instead of there being a select all function to easily transport them into a folder.

You're coming off a rude and others have said they are experiencing the same issue so do you have a suggestion or not?

But I want to delete pictures and video off my phone for more space on my phone (it does weird stuff like turn off sporadically if it's too full). If I delete photos from the phone, it deletes them in iCloud. So I need to save everything in iCloud before I delete the photos off my phone. So I need a select all function for iCloud and to be able to delete all the photos on my phone. Nobody wants to select each picture at a time. It's dumb.

I already have a 128 iPhone and I'm already paying for the iCloud. I bought the new laptop which also doesn't have enough space to put all the photos in iPhoto on the laptop....so I have no problem with paying for the space. I just want a simple select all function. Not too much to ask. It is not user friendly not to have that. It's greedy, stupid and frustrating.

shift used to work....not sure what happened.

The web interface to iCloud has been updated. It fixed quite a few problems, but after this update the "Select" button vanished and without the "Select" mode the Shift key does no longer work. I hope it is a bug and not a new feature and will be fixed soon.

Everybody here please use the feedback form to document to Apple the urgency of this fix.

Go to all photos. Photos will be separated by dates uploaded. Look at the plus sign at the right corner, click the + sign, all photos uploaded on the same day gets selected. At least this way you can select al the photos uploaded on the Same day and download. That's the only option I can see so far. Hope this works with you.

Go to all photos. Photos will be separated by dates uploaded. Look at the plus sign at the right corner, click the + sign, all photos uploaded on the same day gets selected. At least this way you can select al the photos uploaded on the Same day and download. That's the only option I can see so far. Hope this works with you.