Download iCloud photos and videos

With iCloud Photos, you lot can download a re-create of your photos and videos on any device.

How to download photos and videos from iCloud.com

If you want to save copies of your photos and videos from iCloud.com to your iPhone, iPad, iPod bear upon, or your Mac or PC, follow these steps.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. On iCloud.com, tap Photos.
  2. Tap Select, then tap a photograph or video. To select multiple photos or videos, tap more one. To select your entire library, tap Select All.
  3. Tap the more push .
  4. Cull Download, then tap Download to ostend.

If your photos download every bit a ZIP archive, larn how to uncompress the binder on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on.

On your Mac or PC

  1. On iCloud.com, click Photos and select a photo or video. Hold the control key on your Mac or command key on your PC to select multiple photos or videos.
  2. Click and concord the download push buttonthe iCloud download icon in the upper corner of the window. If you want to download your photo or video equally it was originally captured or imported, choose Unmodified Original. For JPEG or H.264 format — including edits, and fifty-fifty if information technology was originally in HEIF or HEVC format — choose Nearly Compatible.*
  3. Click Download.

If your photos download as a ZIP annal, learn how to uncompress the folder on your Mac or your PC.

What happens when you delete photos or videos

Remember, when you delete a photo from iCloud Photos, it also deletes from iCloud and any other device where y'all're signed in with the same Apple ID — even if you turned on Download and Keep Originals or Download Originals to this Mac. If you lot choose to download your originals, this also impacts your device storage. Learn more than well-nigh how to manage your device storage. You can also larn how to AirDrop your photos and videos to another device.

How to download photos and videos from the Photos app

If you desire to download a total-size copy of your photos and videos from the Photos app to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch on with iOS 10.3 or afterward or iPadOS, or your Mac with OS X Yosemite 10.x.3 or later, follow these steps.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Go to Settings > [your name].
  2. Tap iCloud, then tap Photos.
  3. Select Download and Keep Originals.

On your Mac

  1. Open the Photos app.
  2. Choose Photos > Preferences.
  3. Select iCloud, then click Download Originals to this Mac.

On your PC

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Open up the Photos app, then become to the Albums tab.
  2. Curlicue down to Shared Albums and select an album.
  3. Tap the photo or video, then tap the share push.
  4. Cull Save Prototype or Salve Video.

On your Mac

  1. Open up Photos, then select a Shared Album from the left-hand menu.
  2. Select the photo or video.
  3. Control-click a photograph or video, then cull Import.

On your PC

In iCloud for Windows eleven.1:

  1. Choose Get-go card > iCloud Shared Albums.
  2. Double-click the shared anthology that you want to download photos or videos from.
  3. Double-click a photo or video, then copy information technology to another folder on your reckoner.

In iCloud for Windows 7.ten:

  1. Open a Windows Explorer window.
  2. Click iCloud Photos in the Navigation pane.
  3. Double-click the Shared folder.
  4. Double-click the shared album that yous want to download photos or videos from.
  5. Double-click a photograph or video, then copy it to another binder on your figurer.

To download the full album, open a File Explorer window or Windows Explorer window (Windows seven), open the Pictures binder, and so open the iCloud Photos folder. Copy the Shared Anthology folder to some other location on your computer.

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