How to select all photos in iCloud

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

Apple's slimy tactics to get you to buy more storage space because deleting your unwanted pictures are so hard is finally catching up to them! iPhone sales are at the lowest ever!

I love the diehards making excuses for Apples' slime tactics too. it's so funny to read! Like there's a genuine reason they removed the functionality lol. Such sheep/flock mentality in humans. So evident.

The thousands of people who marked this thread are wrong but you are right!

Yes, it's all a vast conspiracy against you personally. Apple makes all of it's money by forcing you to use iCloud Photos.

Sorry, but NO. I don't use iCloud Photos, and you don't have to. Before iCloud Photos there was importing to your computer. That is still an option available to you.

So, if you would take the time to educate yourself about your options regarding your iCloud usage and photos management, you would find out that you have alternatives. And if you have alternatives, then you cannot accuse someone of slimy tactics. If you don't like how iCloud Photos work, then don't use that feature. How hard is that?

And the thousands of people you are referring to simply indicated that they had the same question. That doesn't mean that none of the various answers that have been supplied were acceptable to them. You are projecting.

GB

This is annoying. Get your **** together Apple and stop abusing your loyal customers. This is ******* and you know it. I just want to clear out my photos and even that i have to go one by one. You're simply being pricks about this. So easy to have a select all, or allow click and drag to select. But no... you force people to waste time selecting on photo after another. Its things like this that turn people away from products like iCloud... don't you get it? duh

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

GB

At no time did I say that it wasn't a problem, so please do not mischaracterize what I stated. I simply stated that there is absolutely no point in griping and whinging about it to fellow users, and that it is what it is.

Of course, simply posting that you are glad about the change appears not to be satisfying unless you can insult someone at the same time.

Have a great life.

GB

Gail, is this not the Community Support Forum? And is not commiserating a form of supporting one another? You've been so salty toward everyone who posted on this topic! Just let people support one another. There is no need for the extreme corporate loyalty. One day Apple will upset you, too.

You must be joking.

Apple=POS applications

You’re right!! I said something similar but the deleted it saying it was a rant.

See. Control and monopoly. I’m so done with this. Not even funny anymore.