Download all your iCloud photos

This appears to be a deliberate strategy. Judging from the various comments, every method for downloading multiple photos -- 'download all', 'shift-click' -- has been progressively eliminated over the past year or two. The result is that if a user values his or her photos, he or she will never be able to walk away from iCloud without going through the horribly arduous task of downloading each photo one by one. I personally have over 8,000 photos in iCloud, which I just assumed I could download when I felt the need. Apparently not. Caveat emptor.

I agree. I suspect that apple is controlling users (anyone surprised) in an effort to get them to download the icloud app so apple (not you lowly user) can manage all of your photos. Then, when you pass the lowly 5 GB of free storage, they can charge you for more. I'm not doing it. I'm moving everything to onedrive - free 1 TB of data... If it weren't for my wife's love of all things apple, I'd dump the whole company... Not a fan.

That was changed, as you have discovered. Try selecting a Moment, then click the Share icon, and then cancel the Share. Supposedly that will select all the photos in the Moment.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

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Eric, Thanks for your response ... That's very helpful. There's not a command key on a PC, but the control key seems to do the same thing. As you suggested, it's not perfect, but It's definitely better than downloading the photos one at a time.

thank you sooo much! i was just trying to do this the old way and googled how to saw this thread read it - and your link rocks! my photos are downloading ALL now and quick (2,300) im a photographer so doing it one by one STINKS! thank you so much! they really need to bring the old option back or have a SELECT ALL DOWNLOAD BOOM lol thanks again a ton! i can now clear alot from my phone to save more photos <3

This is a great question. Its incredibly frustrating having apple disable options for your own content. Manually clicking on thousands of photos is an archaic process and such a waste of time. What a crapy way of forcing a customers hand to buy more storage. Why would anyone want to upgrade their storage if they can't choose what to do with the things they store. If "download all" isn't an option... apple is effectively holding our content hostage while asking for more money.

Bad design. Bad business plan.

This is creazy how Apple Icloud works. For someone working with Windows PC, It's absolutly not easyfriendly. Apple has very good products, but concerning software compatibility with other stuff not being APPLE, Windows/Android kicks their ***** very easily.

😟 Yeah, this is creasy. And they are asking me to paye for more storage on the CLOUD..... I will never do that. I'm better to switch to a high level Samsung. I will be alot better than an Iphone product. You have all the liberty you need with ANDROID #1.

I know. what a disappointment. Big mistake from Apple. I'm not the only one thinking that this doesn't make sense. I will consider on switching to ANDROID. We are better with Google cloud. (You Never stress)

Not cool Apple. This is a cheap trick. I expect more. You are only reducing my faith in your products, and brand.

I am now removing all my photo's from the cloud, and I will close my paid account.

Thanks

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-download-icloud-photos,news-24697.html

This works as of 070617

You are welcome. A lot of people have posted negative comments on the change. Hopefully Apple will change it back.

I think this web site tells how to download all of your photos:

http://www.fangirlquest.com/photography-tips/download-icloud-photos-pc/

Try holding down the command key when selecting photos. You will still have to click each photo, but it allows you to download more than one at a time.