How do you select multiple photos in iCloud?

This is probably the top 5 things Apple should do with it's 256 BILLION DOLLARS but they won't do. Srsly though I came on here expecting to be disappointed (you think this has never happened before to me?). Apple products have the best design but obviously they don't spend too much effort on the user interfaces.

The Icloud photo engineering team should be ashamed!!! this is one of the worst user-friendly engineering product ever designed and am guessing the engineers working there are incapable.

I am quitting the Apple Ecosystem today and am moving to Google Photos which is so much more amazing/user-friendly. I am advising all my friends and family the same. Might follow up with a detailed blog write-up too.

Goodbye Apple.

Dear Léonie, you have refer the the question "select multiple" to "download multiple". I, personaly, need to "delete multiple". Is there anyway to do this?

And, I just wonder...

Does Apple care about users experience? This post is alive since about 2 years. If this feature was removed unintentionally why it's not back still? Can we have an answer from a product development or customer support team member at last ?

Here's the real reason. More money for apple.

By not providing an easy way to select all and delete photos to clean up space, how many people do you think give up and instead just buy more space or continue with current plan. Answer is most.

Millions more revenue for the Apple that is slowly becoming bitter and perhaps spoilt. I'm slowly losing my faith in Apple after being with them for 20 years.

By not providing an easy way to select all and delete photos to clean up space, how many people do you think give up and instead just buy more space or continue with current plan. Answer is most.

But it is really easy to delete all photos in iCloud from any device syncing with iCloud Photo Library - either on an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or on a Mac, if you enable iCloud Photo Library in the Photos.app. To delete all photos, sign out of iCloud Photo Library with "Disable and delete".

iCloud Photo Library is meant to be used with synced, local Photos Libraries with a convenient user interface to the library. I never use the clumsy web interface to access my iCloud Photo Library unless I am away from all my devices and want to show a few photos to friends or family.

To work with iCloud Photo Library I use a Mac or my iPhone.

Justifying a lame UI and intended attempt to siphon more money out of the apple customers. If they wished they would've included the option to delete multiple files. Apple wants you to buy more iCloud storage space, period.

Why can't we have selective option to upload videos and photos separate. That's a bare minimum feature that can be implemented. Why bundle them together as photos and upload to iCloud? Videos take more space and this way your cloud space gets full much faster.

Apple wants you to buy more iCloud storage space, period.

Do you genuinely believe this theory? Do you believe that any business the size of Apple would employ a sales strategy of, "let's annoy them into buying more of our product"?

iCloud.com is a tool of convenience. The 9in1 screwdriver of the cloud service family. Not the best tool for the job. Many, many drawbacks, but can do in a pinch. You wouldn't want to build a deck with one.

The fact is Apple has LOWERED the cost of iCloud storage several times in recent history. How do you parse that fact past your theory?

Thanks Léonie, however I think I had something crazy going on with my sync. I had nothing on my devices and 50gb of photos in icloud. Syncing my iphone would only download the 50gb of photos again instead of deleting the icloud storage.

I found a fix since my last comment. A free software called Cloudy made by a company called CopyTrans. *****
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and defending the icloud's terrible UX design/experience for photos management is a very poor choice of an explanation here.

Defending is not similar to explaining.

Again, we all understand that these messages are not gonna reach Apple.

Simply because they want their Feedback elsewhere. The link has been provided.

Here it is again. >>> Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/ <<<

But we all need a forum to share our frustrations and this'd atleast be of help to new users who happen to do a google search on this problem in the future.

And this community is NOT THAT PLACE. That Google brought you here does not alter the terms and condition you agreed to in order to post your frustrations.

prabhu_a

Well. Using the 'rocket science' example here and defending the icloud's terrible UX design/experience for photos management is a very poor choice of an explanation here.
Be it an app or a website, doesn't matter. If you are making a software product, better make it usable enough that users don't have a tough time using it. Or atleast pay attention to their pain points and promise to address them.

Again, we all understand that these messages are not gonna reach Apple. But we all need a forum to share our frustrations and this'd atleast be of help to new users who happen to do a google search on this problem in the future. Let them know Apple doesn't care about its icloud photo users and is there simply to make their life hard.

This is not a social media site, and there are "rules of conduct" that are outlined in the TOU. Venting and griping to fellow users is prohibited. It is counterproductive and pointless.

And please, point out where I am defending Apple in my post. Show me one sentence in my post where I am doing that.

Educate yourself about how iCloud works, and you will find that you have few issues doing what it is you want to do. And again, if you want Apple to change things, then you are going to have to make an effort to communicate that to Apple. This is not the place to do that.

GB

Believe in whatever you want. I will definitely feel so and it's not going to change my mind. There's no valid reasoning whatsoever as to why multiple files can't be selected while having a lot of other features in icloud web interface.

The responses that I can see here in "caps" are justification of the strong sentiments. I already mentioned about running out of storage space quickly because your videos are bundled into photos; there no option to upload videos separately to icloud which makes no sense at all.

p.s I am not frustrated at all 😉.

I will definitely feel so and it's not going to change my mind.

You are entitled to feel however you wish. I don't care if you change your mind. I will be blissfully unaffected.

Your tenacity won't change reality. Dig in my friend.

It doesn't have the features you want. Tell the guy who can do something about it.

There's no valid reasoning whatsoever as to why multiple files can't be selected while having a lot of other features in icloud web interface.

I don't dispute this at all. Never have. However, repeatedly pointing this out is futile.

Nobody here codes for Apple. Nobody here gathers feedback and gives it to Apple.

I'm thinking they're doing this intentionally, to force people to buy an Apple computer too — only then will the photo stuff work okay. So now I'm inclined to never ever buy any Apple stuff again — I don't like what I think they're doing.

The select all feature is still available if you pay for the icloud. This is just apple trying to force everyone to pay for another service. Its ridiculous and makes me wish I never switched back to iphone from my android.

Icloud is a free service to trap all of your photos. If you want full functionality (the way a normal app should work- like the ability to use the shift key) then you have to pay to upgrade your storage. I'm extremely frustrated with apple and I'm definitely not buying another iphone after this