How to select all photos in iCloud

Also, as you're selecting all 3000 pictures one-by-one, make sure you don't accidentally miss and click on a space between the photos, or its game over start all over again!

Did you test this on a Windows PC using iCloud.com?

Because the [Shift] action does not work, unfortunately.

For Windows its [ALT]+click.

no WAY is it possible Apple forgot to add "select all".

Yup, they did.

What the....

SOLUTION: I know the reason for all the confusion. The Shift only works in iCloud DRIVE, NOT iCloud Photos.

https://www.icloud.com/#iclouddrive

You can't. What is it you are wanting to do, exactly? Why are you wanting to select all of the photos in iCloud.com?

Best,

GB

If you’re on a computer you can press Ctrl+A and that should select all.

This is the best work around I have found, when you are in ICloud photo, click on Photos (the one above Album). This breaks photos up by date/location. When you are in the area of the photos, a plus should show up on the right side, click on it and it will highlight all pictures that are in that category, then you can move them. Hope this helps

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?

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.