How To Download Photos From Icloud To Hard Drive

Icloud for windows version 7.

How to download photos from icloud to hard drive. Download icloud for windows and find the icloud folder in your file explorer. New photos and videos you add to icloud on another device are automatically downloaded to your pc. Once all photos are selected click on the download icon to begin the process of downloading all icloud photos to your computer. Press and hold shift ctrl alt keys and press the down arrow key to select all icloud photos. Find the photos you want to save to the external hard drive click the download button on the upper right corner you can choose to only download original photos or edited photos included.

After you have downloaded the photos from icloud on your windows pc or mac you can start to transfer them to your external hard drive. In icloud photos switch to photos tab press command a to select all photos and click on the download icon. You can also scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the last photo. Manually download all the files from apple s icloud website to a folder on your pc and then copy paste or move them to your usb drive. Click the transferring icon in the lower right corner and click the tab change to choose the destination place of your external hard drive to backup icloud to external hard drive in the pop up window.

All the selected photos will be downloaded to the external hard drive in a zip file format. Choose the photos and videos you want to download by year. To download older ones click the notification area in the taskbar then click download photos in the icloud photos notification. Then copy the photos from your pcs icloud folder and paste them to your usb drive. After that click transfer now to backup photos from icloud to external hard drive.

Select photos to download. If command a is not working make sure icloud photos is enabled on your iphone. At the time of writing icloud download limit stands at 999 photos at a time. If you were close to running out of storage on your primary storage partition then shifting the icloud drive storage location elsewhere will help you save valuable disk space.