Delete multiple photos from iCloud

now holding down control doesn't work either. This ecosystem is terrible.

Hold in ALT (like you would normally do using CTRL)

Not sure why they did this. Well, money for storage comes to mind...

Thanks a lot. Superb advice!

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.

Shift-click doesn't work, it seems that Apple disabled that option. The only way to select all is clicking one by one.

You're right Eric - I can't believe Apple are sooooo short-sighted to remove this option so it feels to me like its a ploy to get you to upgrade your storage! Very distasteful.

You can use the + button under each date in moments to select them and then click off and hit delete. This at least reduces the amount of clicking somewhat.