Delete multiple photos from iCloud

Great information. Viewing icloud.com on windows computer looking at pictures from new iPhone 7. Looking at pictures in icloud.com using "CTRL" held down and selecting multiple pictures to be removed with mouse selections then clicking trash can. Works quickly. Delighted to find work around from individual deleting pictures, one at a time. Would be handy to have "Select" icon.

The best way to do it is to import into pretty much any photo application (eg the free one that comes with the camera) or Microsoft Photo. They have an option to "delete from iphone after import". Once youve imported them into some sort of temp drive just delete the from the PC

Try: Right click on the photo (the one you'd like to start with) so that it is highlighted. Then, press and hold control, press and hold command, move your pointer to the second photo (the one you'd like to end with), and right click twice (click slowly). I happened to stumble on this purely by accident, after a whole lot of frustration. It worked.

You Sir/Maam are amazing. I thank God that during your frustration you were able to discover this trick. And thank you soooo much for sharing this. I really don't know what to say but thank you so very much.

I managed to find a way as well. Someone in the thread gave a way they had accidentaly discovered and I decided to experiment with other key combinations that usually work together.

SOLUTION: Hold down Command and Shift keys and individually click all the pictures.

TIPS: Make sure to press the pictures and not the area around it or everything you would have selected would be deselected. On that note, I suggest deleted like at least 10 - 20 pictures at a time so that way if you were to accidentally deselect, you would have still gotten a lot of pictures deleted and you won't have to go over a lot.

This is such ********. Apple has made it cumbersome to remove photos from iCloud as a manipulative way to get people to upgrade their storage. I became so frustrated with trying to delete, that I just said to **** with it and upgraded my storage amount. Now that I see you really do have to delete one photos at a time, I will be cancelling my iCloud storage altogether as I find it pernicious to deviously force people to pay more money.

Hello Sarah,

In the "Moments" view in icloud, I do not see "Select Photos" in the upper right of the browser window.

Am I doing something wrong?

Is there any other way to handle photos in a simple way, as files, without all that moments/icloud,... etc stuff?

Regards,

quickos

There is a way to delete all photos day by day.

Is better than photo by photo...

Steps do delete all photos by day

1 - Open photos via icloud.com

2 - Make sure you are viewing "Photos" not "Albums"

3 - Click on the Share icon on the right side. If you don´t see just move your mouse over the date.

4 - After clicking on the Share icon, you will notice that all photos from this day were selected however you sill not able to delete them. just clic in one of them then press delete/back on your keyboard

Voilá

Seems to me like Apple is making it almost impossible to clear out your icloud to force you to upgrade your storage plan. Just like you cant disable the notification on your iphone that tells you your phone hasnt been backed up in ✖ long.

Hello! I realize this is an older thread, but I'm having the same problem as the rest of you.

My iCloud is full and keeps asking me to buy more storage. I can select only one photo at a time, to delete. I tried deleting all the iCloud photos from the iPad, before I turned off iCloud Photo Library. The photos are now gone from the iPad, but they're still on iCloud--which is the problem in the first place! Does anyone have additional suggestions for how I can remove the photos from iCloud?

(Full story: my original intention was to use iCloud to put my wedding photos on my husband's iPad Air 2, after erasing its memory and setting it up as my own. [Don't worry--he's okay with me taking over his iPad.] However, iCloud has less storage than the iPad, so I couldn't get all the photos on. Meanwhile, I updated iTunes, and now I'm able to use iTunes to copy photos to the iPad. I just want to remove the photos from iCloud!)

Hi msmsys,

My iCloud looks slightly different than yours, and at first I thought your solution didn't work on mine. Then I realized you're talking about a smaller "share" button that sometimes appears in a row underneath the larger "share" button! I had to scroll just right to get it to appear. It worked! Thank you for your solution.

I'll note that this works day-by-day, not with all the photos I've ever taken, but it still solved my problem!

Dec 2017 update ** . YES this works, (Thank . you msmsys and MadElain) open your browser as big on screen as you can make it.

BUT...HUGE BUT.. you can only select ONE DAY.. So if you have a gallery of 4 years... all separated by date... this doesn't help much... But it is better than anything else.

My issue, is that the freaking photos app "Can't upload your photos to icloud" with absolutely ZERO reason why... so I wanted to nuke it, and start over.

Apple... You have totally lost your way.

"It just doesn't work"

If you're willing to do some programming, then you can do it fairly easily with a few lines:

api = PyiCloudService(YOURUSERNAME)

photos_iter = iter(api.photos.all)

for i, photo in enumerate(photos_iter):

print(f"Deleting file {photo.filename}")

photo.delete()

You just need to install this code from here:

git clone http://www.github.com/picklepete/pyicloud

cd pyicloud

and then add this patch in:

git remote add r3ticuli

git fetch r3ticuli

git checkout r3ticuli/feature/adding-delete

python setup.py develop

then run some loop like up here.

Migrating out of icloud and anything apple related to a google Pixel 2, it's a wonderful experience :-)

Yes this entirely ***** - I hate the ios upgrades anymore so many issues. I need to delete 950 photos from icloud and I am supposed to select each one individually. It's a scam to make money selling more icloud storage space if you ask me.

Is this a joke? I actually went ahead and tried what you suggested.

If you don't work for Apple, please don't try supporting them with lies. I can help you be apple free just ask 🙂

If you work for Apple, wow, they really hire absolutely incompetent people