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To download all photos from iCloud to PC, you can use iСloud.com, iCloud for Windows or CopyTrans Cloudly app.

In short, iСloud.com lets you access your iCloud photos on PC through your browser: you can view, select all or several photos in iCloud and download them to your PC. There’s no way to download or select all photos at once through iСloud.com if you have more than 1000 items in your library.

iCloud for Windows does let you download all of the photos without selecting them one by one, but it doesn’t preserve the album structure (only downloads photos by years) and may be unstable in general or difficult to set up.

CopyTrans Cloudly doesn’t let you view or select the photos, but it downloads all the photos and videos at once in the original format, size, and quality, while also preserving your iCloud album structure. In addition, it operates faster than both iCloud.com and iCloud for Windows.

This article will be helpful if you own a Windows computer. If you own a Mac, follow the official Apple guide on how to download photos from iCloud to Mac.

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Keep in mind that this is a tutorial for Windows users, if you have a Mac, please refer to the guide for macOS users.

Download all photos from iCloud with CopyTrans Cloudly:

1. To download all photos and videos you have in iCloud at once, use CopyTrans Cloudly:
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2. Run CopyTrans Cloudly. You will see a login screen. Enter your Apple ID and password.
   

3. If you have two-factor authentication enabled, make sure to allow the connection on your device:
   

4. Enter the code you received on your device:
   

5. Wait until your iCloud Photo Library is loaded. You will see the main app screen after. To download all photos and videos from iCloud, click on Download:
   

6. Select which folder you want to download your library to:
   TIP: You can also back up your iCloud photos to an external drive to save up space on your PC.

7. Voila! All you need to do now is wait until all your photos and videos are downloaded.
   

If you want to have these photos on your iPhone, here is a guide on how to transfer photos from your computer to your iPhone.

Now that you’ve downloaded all the photos and videos, you might want to delete everything from iCloud.

As mentioned in the beginning of this article, you can also download all your photos and videos with iCloud for Windows or through your browser using iCloud.com.

Access iCloud photos on PC through iCloud.com

The main advantage of iCloud.com is that you can quickly see the overwiew of the photos you have in iCloud. You can also use it on your Mac unlike the other two alternatives. However, iCloud.com is of no use to you if you want to download or delete all of your photos and videos and not spend an eternity on it. Anyway, let’s start with the instructions:

1. Go to iCloud browser version and log in using your Apple ID.

2. Once logged in, click on Photos.

3. You will see all your iCloud Photos displayed in the browser by “Moments” (photos grouped by location you took them at, time of day, etc). If you prefer another display mode, select All Photos from the left-hand pane.

4. Now you can view all your photos via the browser.

5. Select each photo and tap on the cloud icon in the top right corner to download images one by one from your iCloud account to the computer.
   Note: If you have less than 1000 photos in iCloud, you can easily download all the photos by pressing Ctrl + A, then clicking on the “Download” button. If you have more than 1000 photos, however, it becomes a bit more tricky. You will have to track which 1000 photos you have already downloaded, then select another 1000 and so on. CopyTrans Cloudly you can download everything at once 🙂

6. You can also select multiple photos inn iCloud by selecting moments. Click on the small plus sign in the top right corner of one of the moments. Voila! All the pictures in your moment are selected. You can download them to your PC now.
   

7. Once your photos and videos have been downloaded, you will have to extract them from the folder your browser downloads files to (for me it is This PC >> Downloads). The browser version of iCloud doesn’t give you the option to download all your photos and videos to a folder of your choice.

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Once the downloading process is finished, you can delete all your photos from iCloud and forget about it forever or continue using it. Personally, I haven’t been a fan of iCloud Photo Library since the time I ran out of space on both my iCloud and iPhone and couldn’t do much about it. I didn’t know about CopyTrans Photo at the time, so I had to manually download each photo to my PC since, back then, iCloud didn’t support selecting multiple photos.

Anyway, to delete all the pictures from your iCloud, you’ll have to select all your photos one by one again (or by selecting entire moments as explained above) and click on “Delete”. Before deleting, make sure all your photos have been saved to your computer.

How to select all photos in iCloud?

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How To Open Icloud Files

iCloud.com now lets you select all the photos you have in your library by pressing Ctrl + A. Unfortunately, you can only download or delete or as many as 1000 in one go:

If you have iCloud Photo Library enabled on your iPhone or iPad, you can simply select all photos and send a link to download them from your computer. Here’s how:

1. Go to your iPhone, tap on Photos app. Click on Select in the top right corner.
   

2. Tap, hold, and swipe to select multiple photos.
   

3. After you’ve selected all the photos you need, click on the Share button in the bottom left corner.
   

4. Swipe left on the bottom icons to get to the icon you need, then select Copy iCloud link.
   

5. After this, simply paste this link somewhere (send it to your own email, for example) and click on it from your PC. Make sure you aren’t signed in to iCloud in your browser.

6. Click on Download.

7. Click on Download again. The photos will be downloaded in a .zip archive. You can extract them to a folder of your choice after the download is completed.
   

Download iCloud photos using iCloud for Windows

Download Files From Icloud Drive

iCloud for Windows is a nice tool provided by Apple that lets you download iCloud photos to PC in bulk. It also lets you upload photos to iCloud (in case you’re interested in that). The drawbacks are that it doesn’t preserve the album structure of your iCloud Library, cannot boast stability, and may not download all the photos in the original quality. There are also cases when iCloud for Windows just doesn’t install or returns unknown errors here and there. It will, however, help you download your photos. So, here are the instructions:

1. Download iCloud for Windows tool from here and install it onto your computer.

2. Open iCloud for Windows from the Start menu.

3. Tap on Options and select everything you need. Click on Done.

4. Then click on Apply and close the main window.

5. Next, open the system tray and click on the cloud icon.

6. Hit Download Photos to initiate the process.

7. Your photos are now being downloaded to C:Users&USER NAME&PicturesiCloud PhotosDownloads

8. You will find your iCloud photos and videos organized by years.

BONUS! Find your photos in iCloud backup

If, for some reason, you cannot find your photos in iCloud, there is still a chance they might be waiting for you in some backup on or off your PC. To help you here, we developed a product called CopyTrans Backup Extractor. The program will search for iCloud and iTunes backups automatically and extract photos to your PC. Here is how to proceed:

1. Download and install CopyTrans Backup Extractor:
2. Install and run the program. If you need help, refer to the installation guide.

3. On the welcome screen, choose “Log in to iCloud for more backups”.

4. Enter your Apple ID and password.

5. If you have 2-factor authentication enabled, you will also need to insert a verification code sent to your device.

6. There you are! after a short search CopyTrans Backup Extractor will display all your backups, both on PC and in iCloud. iCloud backups are marked with a cloud icon, while PC backups have a folder icon next to them.

7. Choose the backup that contains your photos. If the backup is encrypted, enter the backup password to proceed.
   

8. Click on “Photos”.

9. Finally, select the folder you want to extract the photos to and wait for the process to complete. Voila! You can now click on “Open containing folder” to see all of the extracted photos.

10. Your photos are successfully out of the backup! If you want to have these photos on your iPhone, here is a guide on how to transfer photos from your computer to your iPhone.

Conclusion

We hope that you have managed to get your photos out from iCloud and onto your PC. Let us know which way worked for you! Also, you may be in interested in some of our related articles (check them out below).

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