Download iCloud photos and videos

With iCloud Photos, you tin download a copy of your photos and videos on whatever 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 impact, 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 photo or video. To select multiple photos or videos, tap more than than one. To select your unabridged library, tap Select All.
  3. Tap the more than button .
  4. Choose Download, and then tap Download to confirm.

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

On your Mac or PC

  1. On iCloud.com, click Photos and select a photograph or video. Agree the command key on your Mac or control fundamental on your PC to select multiple photos or videos.
  2. Click and concur the download buttonthe iCloud download icon in the upper corner of the window. If yous 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 — choose Most Uniform.*
  3. Click Download.

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

What happens when you delete photos or videos

Call up, when y'all delete a photo from iCloud Photos, it also deletes from iCloud and whatsoever other device where you're signed in with the same Apple ID — fifty-fifty if you turned on Download and Go on Originals or Download Originals to this Mac. If you lot cull to download your originals, this also impacts your device storage. Larn more almost how to manage your device storage. Yous can also acquire how to AirDrop your photos and videos to some other 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 on with iOS x.iii or later or iPadOS, or your Mac with OS X Yosemite x.10.3 or later, follow these steps.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

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

On your Mac

  1. Open up 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 upon

  1. Open the Photos app, and then become to the Albums tab.
  2. Coil down to Shared Albums and select an album.
  3. Tap the photo or video, so tap the share button.
  4. Cull Save Image or Save Video.

On your Mac

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

On your PC

In iCloud for Windows eleven.ane:

  1. Choose Start menu > iCloud Shared Albums.
  2. Double-click the shared anthology that you desire to download photos or videos from.
  3. Double-click a photo or video, then copy information technology 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 anthology that you lot desire to download photos or videos from.
  5. Double-click a photo or video, so copy it to another folder on your figurer.

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

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