How do you select multiple photos in iCloud?

I have been trying to figure this out this morning. Finally got it to work. Here's what I did. Connected my phone (xe) to my mac (sierra 10.12.2). Opened Photos. On the left side, my iphone was listed. Selected it and all my photos on my phone appeared on my screen. Selected "download all" from the top right corner on my mac and all the photos download to Photos. Now I will back up my computer to the external hard drive and all photos will be safe. :-)

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OK I found a partial solution for this. Since the "select button" option is gone now. The method that I found at least selects all the files in one album. Suppose you have 200 files (images) in one album it selects all the 200 images and lets us download all of these in one go. Keep the photos in "Photos" mode on the right side bar. Select "Photos" button on the right side bar to appear all the photos in separate albums. Do not select "All photos" button just below it. For this I used chrome. Here's how it works,

1. Select one photo in an album,

2. Once you do that, there appears a "+" and a "square" upload sign on the upper right side of the window. The "+" sign is for creating new folder.

3. Click the "+" sign and then automatically all the photos in that album are selected. From there you can download all with one click."

Can we have an answer from a product development or customer support team member at last ?

These forums are user to user - we are consumers just like you. You would need to contact Apple directly - they do not participate here.

As léonie stated, if you want to delete large numbers of photos from iCloud Photo Library, do it on your iOS device or your Mac. It's not rocket science. We don't know why iCloud Photo Library works the way it does on iCloud.com, but iCloud.com is a website, not an app.

Attacking fellow users who are simply telling you how it works, is pointless and petty. If you have a beef, then tell Apple about it.

If you want to make a recommendation to Apple about how you would like iCloud Photo Library to work, then tell them: Product Feedback - Apple.

And learn how to use iCloud Library the way it works now, or use something else, but stop griping about it to us who can do nothing about it.

GB

. How are you supposed to manage several gigabytes of files if you have to delete each one individually?

Use the provided tools - the Photos.app on a Mac or iCloud for Windows on Windows PC.

I'm treating the web interface at www.icloud.com as an emergency access to iCloud, when I am away from my devices and need to download a photo using a borrowed computer, but not as the regular portal to work with iCloud.

I selected download photos to my Pictures folder. The entire library downloaded to the PC.

This will work, as long as you do not enable "Optimize Storage" on the iPhone. But iOS 11 will enable this by default, and then not all photos can be downloaded this way.

Ok! Bravo! So solve the problem!

I posted a reasonable workaround for this in Oct of 2016. 14 months ago.

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If you are moaning about bulk deleting photos, you can do the above to make the bulk selection. Then once the "Moment" is selected, click away. The photos stay selected and now you can delete them in one click.

Not all at once, but it is better then nothing. This is only possible in the "Photos" view at the top, and not in the "All Photos" view further down. It's the view that shows the dates for each moment.

But even on a Mac - who likes to click thousands of photos one by one while holding down the command key ⌘ ? Only a year ago we could simply hold down the shift key while clicking the first and the last of a range of photos.

On a Mac I would create a new ,empty Photos Library, if I want to download the photos from iCloud without uploading the photos from the current Photos Library to iCloud.

Pretty sure you should have said "moment" rather than "album" in your explanation. As of Jan 2018 you can do this to select all images in a moment. The mysterious +/square icon pair is only shown in a Moment.

Apple is not here. And the answer to your question is you don't, except by using the workarounds recommended in this thread. If you wish to share your feelings with Apple, do so here: Apple - Feedback

Cheers,

GB

Could you use the Photos application on your Mac? It is much easier to organize edit and select pictures through that rather than going through iCloud.com

My suggestion earlier to use the ALT key was specific to people who are on PCs and don’t have access to photos app via OS X

ALT key is helpful, but you still have to click on each picture individually. If you have hundreds or (as one user did) thousands, it can be a pain. An example might be a whole bunch of pictures that you took from a vacation, or perhaps all the pics you've taken for the past few months.

monkeyrobot123 wrote:

@Apple -- Why not use SHIFT for a selection series or CTRL for non-contiguous individual selections? This is already a universal standard. Please fix this.

This is a user to user technical support forum. Apple is not here. You can share your request with Apple here: Apple - Feedback

Cheers,

GB

For a significant period of time (at least 10-12 months) this functionality stopped working. Thats why this post will live on For our children, and grandchlren to gripe upon. At the start, you could select “photo 5,” hold shift, then select “photo 10,” and all the photos in between would be selected as well. That function was far too useful to remain.

Yes, You can. I found out how. Here is the steps you need to follow:

Log in to Icloud, Open your photos. Then, open the album you want to download the pictures from. Then after, Press on (FN,Option,and Command) at the same time and start clicking on the photos you want to download. Done

Let me know if it works for you