How to select all photos in iCloud

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

Anaq89 wrote:

I don't have the time to click each one of them. I am not thinking good about apple right now. Please create the all select button for iCloud. We as a customers want that choice.

This is a user to user support forum. Apple is not here. Let them know how you feel: Apple - Feedback

GB

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.

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

God forbid Apple offer the service that their customers actually want, Gail. Instead, belittle them for trying to educate YOU on a MORE USEFUL AND FUNCTIONAL platform while pointing them to other services lol. Great business model👍

God forbid Apple offer the service that their customers actually want, Gail. Instead, belittle them for trying to educate YOU on a MORE USEFUL AND FUNCTIONAL platform while pointing them to other services lol. Great business model👍you

I am not associated with Apple in any way other than being a user just like you. And again, if you would take the time to educate yourself on how iCloud Photos works, you would see that for downloading all photos to your computer, or for deleting all photos in iCloud, you have alternatives to Command + Click. God forbid that you read any documentation.

GB

You’re missing the point. It’s 2018. If someone has to read documentation to train themselves to carry out a basic function (that was already available before) the product has failed to be intuitive. It’s no longer helping creativity, but hindering it, causing consumers to find workarounds. This thread is alive and well for very valid reasons. Apple’s whole claim to fame is that ‘it just works’. If this fails to be the case, Apple has nothing but overpriced unnecessarily complicated junk.

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!

No, downloading all photos was *not* the question, besides we all know how to do that.

How do you mass-delete all photos at once - and quickly - is the question.

The only method for deleting all photos in a very large set (besides the *ridiculous* option to CTRL-click each photo or each "moment" individually) would be to disable Photo Library on all iDevices and wait one month for photos to expire in the iCloud. That option is unacceptable! Nobody wants to wait 30 days to do something that should be doable in 2 clicks. So please, tell us how to select all photos for deletion (and no more weaseling around), or stop pretending that you have an answer.

This is an absolutely disgusting slimy attempt to take control of my personal data. I accidentally enabled iCloud photos and now I have to command-click every single one to remove them from your servers. I bet the line of code to select all with command-A is commented out in the source code. It obviously knows how to interpret command-clicks... why no "select all" Apple? Disgusting.

No, you don't have to "command-click" every single one. And if you had bothered to read even a couple of pages of this thread, you would know the alternatives that you have available (there are two if you are using a Mac). You would also know that Apple isn't here. This is a user to user technical support forum. And clearly, you don't have a question. If you want to tell Apple, do so here: Feedback - iCloud - Apple

GB