Download iCloud photos and videos

With iCloud Photos, y'all tin download a copy of your photos and videos on any device.

How to download photos and videos from iCloud.com

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

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. OniCloud.com, tap Photos.
  2. Tap Select, then 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 button .
  4. Choose Download, then tap Download to confirm.

If your photos download as a ZIP archive, learn how touncompress 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 buttonthe iCloud download icon in the upper corner of the window. If you lot 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 inHEIF or HEVC format — choose Well-nigh Compatible.*
  3. Click Download.

If your photos download as a Zero archive, learn how to uncompress the binder on your Mac oryour PC.

What happens when you lot delete photos or videos

Call back, when you lot delete a photo from iCloud Photos, information technology also deletes from iCloud and any other device where you're signed in with the aforementioned Apple tree ID — fifty-fifty 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 tomanage your device storage. You lot can besides acquire how toAirDrop 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 touch with iOS 10.3 or afterward or iPadOS, or your Mac with Bone X Yosemite 10.ten.iii or later, follow these steps.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Go to Settings > [your proper 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 touch

  1. Open the Photos app, then go to the Albums tab.
  2. Scroll downward to Shared Albums and select an anthology.
  3. Tap the photograph or video, then tap the share push button.
  4. Choose Save Image or Save Video.

On your Mac

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

On your PC

In iCloud for Windows 11.1:

  1. Choose Start menu > iCloud Shared Albums.
  2. Double-click the shared anthology that you want to download photos or videos from.
  3. Double-click a photograph or video, and then copy it to another folder on your computer.

In iCloud for Windows 7.x:

  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 you want to download photos or videos from.
  5. Double-click a photograph or video, then re-create it to another folder on your computer.

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

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