How To Download Photos From Icloud To Hard Drive

Icloud for windows version 7.

How to download photos from icloud to hard drive. On the next window select your external hard drive in left pane and click on the download button in right pane. Plug in your external hard drive to your computer via a usb cable. Find the photo files saved from icloud and copy them to your external hard drive with ease. Press and hold shift ctrl alt keys and press the down arrow key to select all icloud photos. Then copy the photos from your pcs icloud folder and paste them to your usb drive.

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. If command a is not working make sure icloud photos is enabled on your iphone. 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. In icloud photos switch to photos tab press command a to select all photos and click on the download icon. Select photos to download.

Choose the photos and videos you want to download by year. At the time of writing icloud download limit stands at 999 photos at a time. 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. Once all photos are selected click on the download icon to begin the process of downloading all icloud photos to your computer. You can also scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the last photo.

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. After that click transfer now to backup photos from icloud to external hard drive. All the selected photos will be downloaded to the external hard drive in a zip file format. To download older ones click the notification area in the taskbar then click download photos in the icloud photos notification.