How do you select multiple photos in iCloud?

Appalling omission by Apple. If it's a bug....ok....fix it....fast. If it is purpose, then it's a way to shooo away any professional users stuck with Photos. Does anyone have a simple alternative to this failure of a program? Thank you.

Can you please put a select all button in iCloud photos.

My iCloud has been full since the moment I turned it on, years ago. I have no idea how to clear it without individually deleting the 1,642 photos that are on there.

The iCloud is already such a monumental failure just throw us a bone here you sadists.

AirJesus wrote:

Can you please put a select all button in iCloud photos.

My iCloud has been full since the moment I turned it on, years ago. I have no idea how to clear it without individually deleting the 1,642 photos that are on there.

The iCloud is already such a monumental failure just throw us a bone here you sadists.

As has been stated multiple times in this thread - Apple is not here. This is a user to user technical support forum.

Not sure what it is you want. If you need more iCloud Storage to house your photos, then purchase it. If you want to delete all of the photos, then take a moment to read what is right in front of you. The post right before yours tells you how to do it easily.

Otherwise, ask a question. Provide clear and concise language to describe what it is you need help with.

GB

This thread is a bit old but I have to chime in and echo what everyone else is saying, that photo management across Apple is RIDICULOUS. I just sent them feedback on this (thanks to whoever supplied that link above) and yes I understand that "apple is not here".

I prefer to manage my own photos and be able to access individual files, so I won't use Photos. Image Capture doesn't usually work, since nothing shows up when my iPhone is connected for some reason. Normally in the past, I'd just select big batches from the iCloud browser to download, but since they changed this so you can't easily download many files at once, I was at a loss. I ended up selecting album by album to download my images that way (clicking the + icon) but the problem with this is you get a new pop-up prompt for where to save the file for EVERY PICTURE. All 1.5k of them!!! That was the only way I could figure out to download them all.

An alternative: If you have Dropbox, you should be able to download all of them directly to Dropbox when you connect your phone, but this didn't work for me as Dropbox couldn't locate my Photos once I connected my iPhone (don't know why) - maybe it will work for some of you though.

I agree this is a ploy to get people to buy more iCloud space. Anyway, Apple.. this is so pathetic. I really think Apple's photo management system is garbage.

uhm...business major are ya Gail?

782 Million iCloud users.

Let's say 25% store photos/mail/music/documents/etc, and, I'd guess that's conservative. = 195M users

Let's say 50% of those users require more storage, and pay an extra dollar ($2.99 if 200 GB), but for your argument, .99 for 50 GB. = 97,750,000M users

12 months X $96,772,500 = $1,161,270,000 ($1.16 BILLION PER YEAR).

So yes, Gail, Apple does want your 99 cents.

Apple just wants to force you to either upload all your photos from your computer to icloud or make it difficult to dowload icloud so that you use icloud as a permanent storage location and then they can charge you for the data. Very shrewd.

Again - iCloud is not a permanent storage location. It is a virtual drive where you can hold a commonly accessed library. We regularly recommend that people use Dropbox or Flikr for cloud storage purposes, since iCloud Photo Library is not intended as an archival service.

Is someone forcing you to use it? As with many other things, there are lots of options out there if you aren't happy with it.

GB

Wow. I've been following this topic and every post you make shows you have absolutely no clue. And this one just tops it all. " iCloud is not a permanent storage location" .....Really? Again you show you have no clue. iCloud is as permanent a cloud service as any other cloud service like Dropbox (if you want real permanence then forget cloud). Which is why Apple charges for it. I agree that Apple is playing some really dirty tricks with the photo and storage stuff. Makes no sense AT ALL that you cannot click shift and choose as all other applications like Amazon and Google can. You really need to stop spreading fud if you don't know what your talking about Gail as many here have explained to you over and over. I think your just being thick.

Do you really believe that is their strategy?

Nobody has denied the functionality of icloud.com has a gap that some find aggravating.

But to go tinfoil hat on us and suggest such an absurd point if view is mind-boggling.

There's absolutely nothing "tinfoil hat" about making the assumption that Apple knows what it's doing. Apple is known for exceptional design with intention, and thought put into every detail. Why wouldn't that carry over to their business model as well as their product design, and how one affects the other? Jeez I love Apple and most of my products are Apple, but just because something is Apple doesn't mean it's without fault or there's no room for improvement! Considering how pricey Apple is it's understandable to want to gripe about the small quality of life stuff! Which is why I really don't like the argument "if you don't like it don't use it". There is always room for critique.

When it comes down to it, I don't think Brian is very far off, and I hate conspiracy theories. My point is Apple designs everything down to a T. Everything has intention. Chalking this missing feature up to a mistake is probably not giving them enough credit. And yes, all the new iCloud microtransactions this "missing feature" may incur are I believe intentional. It adds up. It's just business. Sitting at a ouija board channeling Steve jobs would be absurd. Assuming Apple designs their iCloud interface and functionality so as to promote buying more space is common sense.

Either way, since everyone who ever replied in this old thread is probably getting email alerts every time someone else posts, I'm going to see myself out now since it's probably getting annoying :)

Accepting that you may not reply...

It adds up. It's just business.

How is this just business? How is suggesting that a company with the proven track record of Apple would approve and deploy a plan to deliberately and purposely annoy its client base, just to sell $12 worth of cloud storage space annually not absurd?

Correct - in the sense of a place to "archive" your photos - iCloud is nothing like Dropbox or Flikr.

Sure, they are all cloud-based services, but that is where the similarity ends. Because, once again, the primary purpose of a Dropbox or Flikr site is to house your photos permanently where you can then edit, manage, and share them with others if you wish. But, it is ONE library, with ONE access point.

iCloud is a SHARED library, with SHARED access points, and is not intended as a safe place to permanently house your photos. Since it designed to be accessed from any device or computer that is signed into that Library, that means that any one of (or all of) your photos can be deleted in a moment of ignorance (i.e., I HAVE TO make more room on my phone right now - RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE) so I'm going to get rid of all of these stupid photos that I don't need - they're in my iCloud, after all....

Nope.

So, one last time:

iCloud is a SHARED cloud service, not an ARCHIVAL one

Dropbox and Flikr are ARCHIVAL cloud services not a SHARED one

Note that the word "Shared" in this context does not mean that you cannot use a tool to actually share your photo or a slew of them - you can - with either service.

The key difference here is SHARED vs. ARCHIVAL. Not much different than a Shared document on a Shared server. Nothing on that document is protected since anyone can go in and change it.

GB

You do understand that we are users like you, don't you? We are in the same boat. All we can do, is point out the possible work-arounds we found, to download our photos from iCloud since the "Select All" option vanished for unexplained reasons. But we do not develop the software. There is no reason to shout at the messengers. Right now you need the Photos.app on some device to work with a large iCloud Photo Library. At www.icloud.com we can browse a library, but it is difficult to search or organize the photos, to view the metadata, or to download photos. It more like an emergency access to the library, if we are away from our Mac and need to access a few photos.

Ok I'm back because you keep spreading FUD. What are you talking about? Dropbox and Flikr are shared services. Just like Apple if you want to "share" then you still have to assign who and the what. And guess what Gail. You can also by accident delete photo's in Dropbox/Flikr/Google drive/Whatever just like you can in iCloud. iCloud is both an archival as well as a shared. Heck Apple DOES NOT sell space on their iCloud service as an "shared only system" . That's just idiotic. Nope, they sell it as all the other cloud services sell their's. As an Archival cloud service WITH SHARING CAPABILITIES. *****. AND as to the original topic, you with all your vast knowledge of all things Apple still have not explained the simple issue this op is about. Why can you not delete or manage photo's in the simplest manor like google or amazon or flikr or on and on, like ya know they use to have the ability to shift and choose 2 or more at a time.

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