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<div>If you want to download a full-size copy of your photos and videos from the Photos app to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iOS 10.3 or later or iPadOS, or your Mac with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 or later, follow these steps.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Hi, I'm trying to select all the photos in a album on icloud.com so I can download the photos but I dotn want to select each photo individually because theres 600 odd of them is there anyway todo this in bulk.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>how do you select all photos in icloud to download</div><div></div><div>Download: https://t.co/IGwuNLKJtf </div><div></div><div></div><div>Unfortunately, there isn't. Allen A. answered your question without actually answering your question. The geniuses at Apple didn't think a "select all" function was necessary. My mother has 3k plus photos in her iCloud, too and must now click every single one of them to download them. Pure insanity. Get it together, Apple.</div><div></div><div></div><div>We are all well aware you can control click multiple files, that's not the problem. The inability to shift click a range or use a 'select all' feature' is the issue here. Who the **** wants to control click thousands of files one at a time?</div><div></div><div></div><div>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</div><div></div><div></div><div>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....</div><div></div><div></div><div>Your iPhone can hold hundreds of images, so keeping track of your photographs can be difficult. You may have already read our guide on setting up your iCloud library but do you need some extra help on how to organize your photos?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Agree with the fed-up users on here : Extremely annoying that Apple would change the simple, common, fundamental functionality of being able to Shift-Click to select multiple photos from "All Photos". Especially since it was already there!! It's baffling as to why they would even take this out. Restore this immediately, please.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I agree Apple has made photos overly complicated. After iphoto, they introduced Photo, and, photos no longer drag and drop into iMovie. Next, they introduced iCloud for my phone, but, it is nearly impossible to get them to download to my Mac Photo. When I connect my iPhone to my Mac using a cable, it shows only 3 photos that I can import, when I have over 1,000. Simple case of "over-engineering" what was once a simple process.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The iCloud web interface is not meant to be the main access to download all your photos to your computer. It is a tool to browse your photos, if you cannot access your computer and to download a few photos if you cannot get access to your main Photos Library.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>But the more convenient way to download your photos from your iPhone to a mac is to use the Photos.app on the mac. And if you are using a different brand of computer consider to use My Photo Stream to transfer new photos wirelessly.</div><div></div><div></div><div>It used to work a year ago beautifully, when alex_h1 posted the reply. The Photos page at www.icloud.com has been updated, and now the "Select" button in the toolbar is missing, and so we can no longer use the shift key to select a range of photos. It is either a bug or a dropped feature.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Took me a little while to figure this out through brute force of clicking on every option available. Since I pulled up your question while searching for a solution, and noticed that quite a few people had chimed in on your thread for a solution, I figured that I would reply to you in hopes that it would eventually reach the masses. Yes, it is possible to download all of your photos from iCloud using the App (I tried to find a way to do this via the iCloud website, and couldn't figure out a way) on a Mac/PC, but you will need to do a few things on your PC before going through the steps that I'll outline below (Sorry Mac Users, the process is similar, but I really don't want to pull out my MBP 101 to write up a how to). Install, configure and login to the iCloud app in Windows, and note where the "Downloads" folder is located on your PC so that you can navigate there later to manage the photos & videos after they are on your local hard drive. I suggest connecting your computer directly to your router via an Ethernet Cable to prevent any transmission errors that may be encountered when using WiFi to download your iCloud photos and videos. Now on to the steps:</div><div></div><div></div><div>This thread is going from two years , and many of us are trying to solve , selecting all photos ( can be thousands or more ) than deleting them in one single stroke seems impractical , the Mac user can select photos in parts and delete .</div><div></div><div></div><div>It is probably a bug in the new iCloud user interface at www.cloud.com. All buttons in the toolbar are still there to handle selected photos but the "Select" button is now missing. That can simply not be intentional. At least, I hope so.</div><div></div><div></div><div>But the bigger problem anyway is, that selecting multiple photos does not download them properly as an entity in one go, but opens a separate download window for each of them. The more pressing problem is that Apple solves the way how batch downloads are handled. Having to deal with 200 download windows opening n Safari, when 200 photos have been selected to download is not feasible. We need a nice and tidy download option back, that will allow to select a range of photos and downloads them as a folder in on one go. And it should have an option to download the original RAW files, not just the edited versions. Right now, the iCloud interface to Photos is more like a write-only memory, we can upload photos, but it hard to get them back. And not being able to retrieve the original RAW files is a deal breaker for serious photographers. Photos is claiming to preserve a lossless workflow.</div><div></div><div></div><div>It is not even suitable for browsing a large iCloud photo library, because there is no search tool. We have to prepare for the emergency by creating plenty of albums in advance, and putting the photos we may need to access online into separate albums for each purpose. The Photos and All Photos view are just too difficult to browse, if the library is not just a small toy library. Even my moderately sized Photos library of 45000 photos cannot be browsed online by scrolling the Moments or the All Photos.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Thanks for the workaround, I found a slightly faster worksaround and from the results, probably explain why Apple turned off the select all features. Seems like the icloud web is unstable handling any action on large amount of photos. So my lcuky guess is that by turning of the "select all" features, chances of having not responding error are minimized.</div><div></div><div></div><div>*Notes, do not press delete immediately after you have completed the selection, wait for the page to finish loading, cooldown or whatever you might call it, otherwise you may receieve the "not responding error" and you will need to redo it.</div><div></div><div></div><div>OK I found a partial solution for this. Since the "select button" option is gone now. The method that I found at least selects all the files in one album. Suppose you have 200 files (images) in one album it selects all the 200 images and lets us download all of these in one go. Keep the photos in "Photos" mode on the right side bar. Select "Photos" button on the right side bar to appear all the photos in separate albums. Do not select "All photos" button just below it. For this I used chrome. Here's how it works,</div><div></div><div></div><div>I found a solution to grab a group of photos by 'moment' or 'date' without clicking each one individually (See image below). There are a couple of buttons, (plus sign and a square with upward pointing line) which only show up if you mouse over a date range of photos. The buttons are small and positioned at the top right of a series of photos. Click either one of those buttons and it will highlight all photos for that 'date' or 'Moment'. Select from the drop-down OR click in a blank area which will make the drop-down disappear. You can then choose the Download option at the top of the page. It's ridiculous that the normal Shift+Click function doesn't work for selecting a series. I'm using icloud from a PC on 3/2017</div><div></div><div></div><div>Photos will upload each and every photo in your system library to iCloud. The purpose of iCloud Photo Library is to keep all libraries identical across your devices. If you want to have only a selection of Photos synced across your devices, move the photos you do not want to sync to a separate Photos Library. Only the system photo library will sync with iCloud.</div><div></div><div></div><div>A brute force way to keep Photos from syncing certain photos to iCloud would be to import the photos referenced and do not store them in your Photos Library. Referenced photos cannot upload to iCloud, see:</div><div></div><div></div><div>But I cannot really recommend to risk this approach, because it is error prone. It is easy to make mistakes when working with referenced photos, see: Disadvantages of a Referenced Library in Photos Communities</div><div></div><div> df19127ead</div>
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