Download iCloud photos and videos

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

How to download photos and videos from iCloud.com

If you desire to relieve copies of your photos and videos from iCloud.com to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or your Mac or PC, follow these steps.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on

  1. On iCloud.com, tap Photos.
  2. Tap Select, and so tap a photo or video. To select multiple photos or videos, tap more than one. To select your entire library, tap Select All.
  3. Tap the more than button .
  4. Choose Download, so tap Download to confirm.

If your photos download as a ZIP archive, learn how to uncompress the folder on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon.

On your Mac or PC

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

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

What happens when you delete photos or videos

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

How to download photos and videos from the Photos app

If you want to download a full-size copy of your photos and videos from the Photos app to your iPhone, iPad or iPod bear upon with iOS 10.iii or later or iPadOS, or your Mac with Bone X Yosemite 10.10.3 or after, follow these steps.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Become to Settings > [your name].
  2. Tap iCloud, so tap Photos.
  3. Select Download and Go along 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 bear on

  1. Open the Photos app, and so go to the Albums tab.
  2. Scroll downwards to Shared Albums and select an album.
  3. Tap the photo or video, then tap the share push button.
  4. Cull Salvage Image or Save Video.

On your Mac

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

On your PC

In iCloud for Windows xi.1:

  1. Choose Start carte > iCloud Shared Albums.
  2. Double-click the shared album that y'all want to download photos or videos from.
  3. Double-click a photo or video, then copy it to another folder on your calculator.

In iCloud for Windows 7.x:

  1. Open up 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 you want to download photos or videos from.
  5. Double-click a photo or video, then copy information technology to another folder on your computer.

To download the total album, open a File Explorer window or Windows Explorer window (Windows vii), open up the Pictures folder, then open the iCloud Photos folder. Re-create the Shared Album folder to another location on your reckoner.

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