How to select all photos 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?

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

There is no select all or multiple photos. iCloud is a bank for apple. They want you to store photos and make use of their virtual space and harder to instantly withdraw the photos and videos. The harder it is for you to download and delete the photos, they make money because you will get frustrated like me and keep it in there and later purchase more space. Pennies per month for Apple times billions of users is a lot of money.

I think they've done this deliberately as anyone downloading large numbers of images is likely planning on cancelling their iCloud subscription anyway. I tried downloading large numbers at once and each opened a pop-up and as so many opened so fast I couldn't check the "automatically" box. So then hundreds of images tried to open at once and on and on. It's like malware in that respect. I also suggest you change your destination folder for downloads too in advance and just get through it.

Of course this is deliberate. But remember, Apple knows what's best for you. Your photos were designed to be stored in iCloud, your wallet was destined to pay for more space, that's just the way it is, I don't see why so many people are upset at Apple for protecting them from themselves.

Look, if you were to download all your images to your hard drive, flash drive, etc., when that device fails, you wouldn't have any of your precious memories backed up. Or lets say you backed them up to your dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive/etc account, then when your insecure non-Apple account got phished, all of your precious memories would be gone. Apple is just protecting you.

Besides, it's helpful to remember that these aren't really "your" photos anyway, they are Apple's photos that you took for them. You should just be grateful that Apple lets you view them on any of their approved devices that they will happily allow you to borrow for a modest four digit fee.

This is not a helpful answer. Clearly there is a problem here caused by a flaw (that can easily be rectified), in the iCloud interface.

To me, it seems that the only reason for a select all feature to not be available is to try a pressure people to begin paying for an increased iCloud capacity. If this was not the case then this feature would have been added a long time ago.

Very underhand of Apple, thankfully it looks like your heyday is coming to an end as the mediocrity of your overpriced products are now being exposed.

The problem of having to click hundreds of pictures without forgetting any is the problem. And I agree with one of the other posts: This is all about making it making it inconvenient so they sell more iCloud. I had iCloud on by mistake. I will not buy more icloud and I start to hate my iPhone because of apple's approach of forcing you to buy stuff you don't want. Sick of apple!

Absolutely astounded that this isn't possible and totally agree it's about money over service. Making it a mission to clean out my library, download what I want however long it takes and wave bye bye. Now where's your control, Apple :-(

Hey guys,

Didn't go through the whole thread to see the answers but I've found a less painful way of doing things.

1. Open up the sidebar (on the left) and click on top most 'Photos'. It will now get sorted by dates.

2. On each date, hover to the right and a share button will appear. Click on the 'Share' button and now all the images within that date will be selected.

3. Just ignore it and click on 'Delete' by clicking on the Trash bin on top of the thumbnails.

Hope that helps. A bit. Apple needs to get their act together to settle this once and for all.

this is a disgrace that apple have restricted this feature I have 300 photos. it will take me 3 days to downalod each one individually .... come on .... No more apple product for me what a waiste of time

I am so bloody ready to be done with Apple forever over this. Seriously. How childish of this company. They obviously are either so inept as software designers/programmers they are an embarrassment to the industry. Or they are purposely being obtuse about why they are not adding this simple feature. There is some strategy they refuse to answer. This is beyond the pale. I am nearly done with apple. I got so frustrated by this I seached on the web for an Application the said it could download any files including icloud off my iphone directly like a file system. IExplorer. And low and behold, apple patched it so it doesn't work after I paid $57 dollars just for this bloody one feature. I want to download my 3000 photos off my iphone and i have spend literally 2 days trying to solve this. Google's phones has no issue here.
Apple i am done, this is it. If this issue isn't solved i am leaving the thousands of dollars of apps, etc that I have spent for apple, and moving over to google. Because this kind of bs is exactly why apple is going to die. When Steve Jobs was running things it was bad enough, not it seems even worse. At least Steve would give you a solution even it it meant it was his way of doing it. Now they refuse to let you have basic functionality, they want to do it automatically for you, in some archive that is completely useless, and not compatible with other photo editing software, etc.
I am really so beyond the pale frustrated right now.
Apple you are missing the bloody entire reality of this situation. I know everyone who owns an iphone is frustrated over this one issue. Not allowing people to see their files as a file folder. And then download at least images, movies, etc. If you cannot do that, then you are incompetent, because it is clearly not hard programming, or two, you are trying to purposely prevent people from having easy ways of doing things you think is not how you want to do it. Then you test your stupid system with 3 photos and download one and think you have a brilliant solution

Apple fix this issue which has been in iphones for over 10 years now.

Apple is not here. Tell them: Apple - Feedback. We don't really care what electronics you use since we are users as well.

And, seriously, you need to get your facts straight. If the "issue" you are referring to is the inability to select a group of photos on the iCloud.com website, then you are way off on your timeline. iCloud Photo Library was not even introduced until 2015....

GB

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 *******.

Apple isn't here, and as fellow users, we don't care if you don't like how it works. If you want to tell Apple (perhaps in a more civil manner), you can do so here: Feedback - iCloud - Apple

GB

Hello,

Putting my grain of salt in there too... Offering web hosting services conveniently is awesome but holding customers that way is ridiculous. I have spent quite some time to find a solution to download all of my photos from Icloud and as of now, none of the answers posted on this forum did work. I do have an Iphone with Icloud services that I intend to stop using if I don't find a solution to bulk download my content off the cloud.

Iphone 6 / PC user (Linux OS). Possibly future Android user for first time ever lol.

Thanks in advance for any solutions provided!