Hi, I'm trying to select all the photos in a album on icloud.com so I can download the photos but I dotn want to select each photo individually because theres 600 odd of them is there anyway todo this in bulk.
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null-OTHER, Windows 10, laptop
I solved it accidentally: ( I could not find the Select All button and cntrl+A and/or pressing shift button did not work)
on top left of the icould/photos , under the "iCloud Photos" you see a sidebar. the first top item is Photos, then Albums, then All Photos, Videos, ....
I made the mistake to go to All Photos, while you should go to Photos (the first item on the sidebar). when you click on it, you can see all your photos categorized by time and place tag. in front of each headline (including time and place) move your cursor to the rightmost place, two items appear: " + " (for adding to album) and "sharing item". press sharing item (which is an upward arrow coming out of a box), and all the photos in the category get selected/highlighted. now do not click on any of the pop-ed up items. but just go to top of the page right and next to your account name and the deleting button, you find the Download button (a downward arrow coming out of a cloud) press it and you can download all the photos in the category.
you can repeat this for all categories you want.
it is not like you can download all photos altogether, but I think it is better than downloading each one-by-one.
There are so captive...
And they say they turned open source! I'm so happy I've got out of all this non sense.
But I need my photos back
Too easy but not what we'd like to do!
I figured out there's a solution and will post a reply later. And it's really well hidden ^^
no WAY is it possible Apple forgot to add "select all".
Yup, they did.
What the....
If you're trying to delete all photos and videos from Icloud, here are some easy solutions: How to Delete All Photos from iCloud on PC/Computer/iPhone/iPad? - YouTube
HEY, APPLE!!
GIVE ME A WAY TO SELECT EVERY EFFING PHOTO AND DO IT NOW.
For the sake of everloving all that is holy, you sons of *******.
Go Gail!
yes, users are frustrated, but ranting like the above is not helpful.
Thanks for trying to set them straight.
Drew
SOLUTION: I know the reason for all the confusion. The Shift only works in iCloud DRIVE, NOT iCloud Photos.
https://www.icloud.com/#iclouddrive
On website it is restricted by the engineers @ apple but You can use icloud for win
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201391
Ok, so this should do the work
Download the dropbox app, then you can sync/upload your photos to dropbox. later from PC, sign in and download all your photos ! then you can clear up your icloud!
How to select all photos in iCloud
