How to select all photos in iCloud

!!! NO, You may not select all photos stored in iCloud !!!

I've hours of googling and apple simply redirects to old information!

Pick them one by one, awful tactic, I have 4300+ pictures held hostage on iCloud

Found no other method

agreed. we need better selection mechanisms. but try my “finger slide” suggestion in the meantime. it can be used to select a large range if you can delicately control the speed of scrolling

This is not possible, despite being requested for years by users.

The only rationale I can see is that is by design to keep user locked in the service.

We are all well aware you can control click multiple files, that's not the problem. The inability to shift click a range or use a 'select all' feature' is the issue here. Who the **** wants to control click thousands of files one at a time?

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?

Hey guys! I've been frustrated by this stupid bug for so long, as so many people I see on web. But I found a "smart' way to do that (since Apple doesn't bother to provide a normal function. Still can't believe it). So to get rid of all the pics you need to go to Moments and hover over the right side next to the title for each "Moment", then click +. It'll select all those pictures to make an album, but you can just throw them right into trash instead and never see this endless garbage again 🙂

Write an automated script to do attribute selection.

I remember writing javascript using console to select all canvas elements viewable on the page. It might help. Only thing here is you should have all the image (canvas elements) loaded on the page.

I figured out how to do it with my new computer. I have an HP Omen with windows 10. Seriously all I did was plug the phone into the usb and transferred to pics in computer. There was even a select all. Don't know if I found a glitch or what but try and see. Good luck and God bless

SickOfApplesBS wrote:

Agree 100%, I have no respect for the company any longer. They let you upload 10,000 pics at a click, but require 10,000 clicks to reverse it. Apple is sh.. like the rest. Retiring very soon and one bullet should be able to go through the Mac, ipad, and iphone easily!!! Computers can fly a plane, control 100 drones in tandem, and trillions of other awesome technologically impressive tasks, except Apple cannot figure out how to let people manage there files appropriately.

If you have a Mac that you are trying to download your photos to, it is a simple thing to select "Download Originals to this Mac". If you are attempting to download them elsewhere, why not explain what it is you are trying to do specifically, and we will see if we can help.

GB

There is a trick, if is you click the memories tab, you’ll see small ‘+’ icons for each day. If you click that (it will select all photos of that day) and then click the download icon, it is faster than individually clicking on each photo.

Actually, in my version of MacOS Mojave, I had to use "Export" from Photos, not "download." I was leery of re-enabling Photos because older versions would aggressively suck in every image file from every device ever plugged into my computer, even freezing the computer for hours while doing it. But that horrible behavior seems to be avoidable now. So I did succeed in copying my hundreds of iPhone pictures to an external hard drive, without moving thousands of external picture files into the Evil Photos App. This process was very frustrating, especially to a Windows refugee and retired software exec who knows what CAN be done. But at least there seems now to be a workaround via Photos.

From Library, Under “Photos” 

> Select “Moments” 

> Select “+” to “Add all items into new album” option accordingly to the date 

> Added photos into the new Album 

From Library, Under “My Albums”

> Select an album 

> Select “Trash” icon (If you want to delete)

> OK 

Hey! As I`ve bought my first IPhone, I thougth that`s the most stupid issue that I can`t download ALL photos. Couple weeks ago I`ve found these tipps https://osxtips.net/download-photos-from-icloud/

It works! :)

Please...

I need to select and delete 3,000 photos...

I can't shift click on 3,000 photos.

There must be a rational way to do that.

Hold down the control button (ctrl) and click on all the photos that you want to select. Not sure why Apple said to hold down shift 🙄