How to select all photos in iCloud

Why are you telling us? Apple is not here. Do you have an iOS device or a Mac? If so, then you have other options available to you. Your profanity-filled comments are pointless and graceless. If you have a question for your fellow users, then please ask it. If you want to gripe, tell it to Apple: Feedback - iCloud - Apple

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I have found somewhat of a shortcut, as you can select all the photos of one moment in one click:

• Open iCloud photos in your browser
• Select the folder photo's (not the 'All photo's' listed under Albums);
• To the right of the date there is a plus. Click it, it now selects all the photos made on this date, click besides the pop-up;
• The photo's should still me selected, so now you can delete/download them all at once.

I hope this helped a little

You can't. Full stop.

Here is only one way to work with that:

1. Download all photos using iCloud on computer
2. REMOVE photos backup Icloud from iphone
3. install google drive with free 15 Gb
4. Move all photos to google drive and setup autobackup.

If you only care about bulk downloading, iCloud for Windows has an easy solution for that. Right-click the tray icon of iCloud, select "Download Photos", and once a new little window "Download Photos and Videos" pops up, select "All" (or any of the years).

here's a relevant tip: open Photos on an iOS device. back out to the Years view, if you're not already there. select a year and click Show More. then click Select. now, place your finger over the top leftmost photo, swipe right to the top right photo in the row, then drag down to the bottom right corner of the screen below the trash can. release your finger when you get to the Places section or you lose patience, whichever is earlier. This allows you to rather quickly select all (or a range) of the photos in that year. You can now delete the selected photos by clicking that trash can icon. (And if you've previously downloaded all the photos using something like iCloud for Windows "Download photos and videos," you can restore them by re-uploading any photos you wanted to keep in the cloud.

this is a f-in joke right?
i have about 5000 picture to delete, manually, seriously?!
is that the new apple way? whats next? you cant rename them because apple does that for you? or not being able to delete pictures, because that´s a feature for the new upgrade?
as much i adore my macbook and power mac - the ipad and iphone including the ios are ridiculous. it´s so unbelievably limited and limiting, highly absurd. but who am i telling this, the apple decision makers dont even read the discussions...
i´ll delete my whole icloud account, thats easier.

Im in a huge pickle, not only do I want to do what you guys want, select my pictures using the shift function, that they got rid of with no reason.. but I have 10k photos I need to take from icloud. At the time I only bought the icloud storage because there was no way I wouldve been able to store that many photos/videos on my iphone or mac, and it was speficically for my Poland trip. Ive been debating on whether or not I should devote days worth of clicking just to extract them to a harddrive.. when a shift function can do it for me in seconds..

Me too. I have been a iphone user for over ten years now but i have about had enough. It just keeps getting worse. From the planned obsolescence "battery managing" iphone6 performance fiasco to the steadily increasing money grab schemes that destroy user experience such as this ridiculous issue, Android just keeps looking better. Wish Jobs was still with us, rest in peace. It wasn't like this when he was running Apple, or at least it didn't seem like it. 😟

Precisely my thoughts. I don’t normally complain about things like this but this is just bad business. What really hurts is the fact that I truly enjoy the Apple platform; the design, the uniqueness, and the efficiency of the OS. They’ve just gotten a bit greedy since Jobs left us, if you ask me.

I cannot fathom that this doesn't have a fix. I cannot fathom that Apple allows this to be the only way to select and download photos. I am reminded more and more why I went back to using other companies for computers and will be for my next phone.

It is obvious that Apple did this feature intentionally.

Apple doesn't want their customer has anyway get data out of iCloud (period)

Now Apple is a very evil company they basically use your photo as the hostage for demanding people to pay as much storage as possible in iCloud.

Hi Allen A,

Im using a mac and the shift function doesn't work to select all the photos to down load. Do i need to hold command and select 600 individual photos? This can't be a good idea, even for apple?

Actually im almost 100% positive that it is INTENTIONAL. Apple really wants you to pay for icloud storage increase. However, if they have the option to select all pictures they would lose a ton of $$$$. An iphone costs anywhere between $700-1000 NOT INCLUDING TAX and they still want more.

I recommend disabling icloud for pictures all together. Just use google photos instead.

Unless you want to manually select each photo out of several thousands of photos and if you screw up well guess what, start over?

This is unacceptable. Why is it so difficult to get my pictures and albums off an iphone? Select all is common sense and so would being able to download just your favorites or just an album but these very simple things are impossible with Apple.

Your company is not user friendly any longer.

Exactly. This is exactly. APPLE is messed up when they are doing this for 5£ more... this is pure greed and capitalizing everything...SELECT ALL option even THE MS_DOS had that option. WHY SUDDENLY REMOVED? SO won't have actually access to all your photos! I found iCLOUD PHOTOS stupid. SPEND THE MONEY on Hard drives and store your photos safely "AT YOUR OWN HANDS" not the stupid CLOUDS