How do you select multiple photos in iCloud?

It's having the opposite effect on me. I have 200GB icloud storage already and I'm moving it to dropbox because I'm over iCloud's limitations.

After activating a new iPhone I disabled Photos from syncing with the cloud so I could keep my phone storage minimized. Now I want to download my 2,500+ iPhone photos from iCloud to a folder on my Macbook Pro, without using Photos (I don't like the way iPhoto and now Photo store images, so I plan to keep all my images in one place and sort them with Bridge). As far as I can tell---and after hours of google-fu--the least annoying option is to sync the iCloud photos to my iPhone and then use Image Capture to move the to a folder on my laptop. Plug and play my apple!

As amazing as the technological advances Apple has given us are, I can't believe how clueless they are at times with glaring gaps in their SW and web sites... Shift multi file select is where they fall short? No "Select All" option? Really Apple?? Really???

Delete them on your computer using the multi selection system and as its a syncing system the photos will be delete from iCloud as well.

Therefore use the multi selection system on the Photo app on your computer.

Apologies if I'm missing something as I have not read all the replies

Hi, the problem I have is not all of my photos in icloud are on my phone. very few in fact. but icloud is full (so is the phone), and I want to download them all to my Mac photos app. there are around 1100 photos. I really don't want to single click each one.

what are my options?

I agree....this is annoying. They should have eliminated this option to put friction on downloading so your icloud gets busier and busier and you need to buy more space. Not surprised from a greedy company like Apple.

Hi Apple,

Why did you deactivate this? Sending me emails to pay for more cloud storage, but you don't let me delete multiple pics/videos at a time. Had to select one by one... Just... Why...???

Leaving you now and entering the beautiful Android universe!

There might be a way to do this; it's not as simple as hitting the Command button and selecting your photos but it is quite handy. Just 3 simple steps! 🙂

1. In your iCloud Photos, go to Photos (the uppermost folder).

2. On the right-hand side, click at either the "+" or the Share button next to it. Then, simply click anywhere in the iCloud to close the pop-up message (i.e. Share 24 items to).

3. Click at the iCloud Download button next to the Trash Bin button on the right-hand side. Done!

Hope this helps. 🙂

A workaround solution: click Photos (not All Photo) then the photos are grouped by Moments, in each, click "+" sign but don't add to any album: instead click move the mouse and click the Trash button.

I know why, because this way is too complicated and they have a better chance of getting someone to buy more storage than go through the trouble of selecting and deleting to make more space. Truly pathetic, my recommendation to fix this issue is to do it once and then use Google Photos/Drive - problem solved. You can also take the opportunity and throw the iphone away and get yourself a nice new android device (only reason Im here is because Im trying to recover some old stuff btw). My wife did it and she keeps telling me it was the best decision she ever made when it comes to choosing what os to use. Thanks Apple for helping my wife making this great decision. Cheers

In case you're wondering why a lot of people don't buy Apple products - this is why. Requiring special tools, usually sold by Apple, to do basic things that should be do-able by a regular web interface.

Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://apple.com/feedback

In case you're wondering why a lot of people don't buy Apple products - this is why.

I am sure they will appreciate the keen insight. Sound like something they should know.

Thanks for the link - I submitted a request.

A big example of how this would be useful is when I'm wanting to access and manage (download, delete, etc.) photos from a computer that's not my regular computer - e.g. a friend's computer or work computer. In that case it's not feasible to use an Apple app, and even if I could I don't want to sync all my photos on that computer. Thus it would be nice to be able to do such things from the web page, since every computer has a web page.

(P.S. Some of the snobby / snarky responses are another reason why a lot of people don't use Apple - the "You don't like the way we do it? Up yours." attitude. Just sayin'.)

It's a free country. Not sure how your post is a technical support question, but please feel free to purchase anything you want. We have zero vested interest in what you purchase since we are users just like you.

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Along the same lines - is there a way to delete an album from the iCloud web page? I can delete all the pictures from an album, but can't find an icon or method to delete the album. Can this only be done from device (or iTunes or whatever)? Not a big deal, just wondering.

Same here. I currently have 22,756 images saved. I buy the largest version of iPhone available each release because I use photos for EVERYTHING. Saving important documents (throwing away the paper), screen shots to instruct employees, archiving things for work and of course, regular old photos. No selfies, lol.

Five years ago, if you told me that I would say, what I am about to say I would have tried to slap you but, I am seriously considering not going with an iPhone for my next phone. This thread driving that decision for the most part. But it's an indicator of bigger things. Apply just doesn't drop my jaw like it used to. Competitors are catching up. I certainly know that no one will miss me but it makes me sad.