How do i download icloud photos to my pc

In this case, you can resort to an alternative way — installing iCloud for Windows. This app allows you to access data like photos stored in iCloud from your other devices. You can download full-resolution copies of photos from iCloud onto your Mac through the Photos app on Mac. Before we do that, please make sure you have enabled iCloud Photos in the Photos app on your Mac. As is well known, iCloud can be used to store various data on your iOS devices. Among these data, your photos and videos may take up most of the storage in iCloud.

When you turn on iCloud Photos, your photos and videos will be automatically uploaded to iCloud. You may wonder where can your photos and videos be stored since the iCloud Photos has been disabled.

This can be a problem, if there are thousands of Photos in your iCloud Account and you want to download them all to your Windows computer. Luckily, there is a keyboard shortcut to select All iCloud Photos and you will find below 2 different methods to Download All Photos from iCloud to your Windows computer.

If the number of Photos that you want to download from iCloud to PC is less than 1,, you can follow this method to select and download up to photos from iCloud to PC.

If you are trying to download over 1, photos, you can move to the next method as provided below in this guide. Step 2: Launch the iCloud program. Sign in by entering Apple or iCloud credentials.

You might need to enter the verification code that you get on your phone to complete the sign in. Step 3: When you get the following dialog, be sure to select at least the Photos option.

Click the Apply button. Step 4: Open up the File Explorer. Click the iCloud Photos in the left navigation pane. Step 5: Click on the Download and videos button in the toolbar to see Download photos and videos dialog. Step 6: Select All option. It might take a while to complete downloading all photos. If you want, you can copy them to some other place on your PC or external drive as well.

If you want the edited file added to iCloud Photos, upload it as a new file. Double-click a thumbnail to download and view it. You can manually download older photos and videos by year.