Download iCloud photos and videos

With iCloud Photos, you tin download a re-create of your photos and videos on any device.

How to download photos and videos from iCloud.com

If yous desire to save copies of your photos and videos from iCloud.com to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or your Mac or PC, follow these steps.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. On iCloud.com, tap Photos.
  2. Tap Select, and so tap a photo or video. To select multiple photos or videos, tap more than 1. To select your entire library, tap Select All.
  3. Tap the more push button .
  4. Cull Download, and then tap Download to confirm.

If your photos download as a ZIP archive, larn how to uncompress 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. Agree the command key on your Mac or control key on your PC to select multiple photos or videos.
  2. Click and hold the download push buttonthe iCloud download icon in the upper corner of the window. If you want to download your photo or video as information technology 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 Compatible.*
  3. Click Download.

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

What happens when you delete photos or videos

Call up, when you lot delete a photo from iCloud Photos, it also deletes from iCloud and whatsoever other device where y'all're signed in with the same Apple ID — even if y'all turned on Download and Keep Originals or Download Originals to this Mac. If you choose to download your originals, this also impacts your device storage. Learn more about how to manage your device storage. You can also learn how to AirDrop your photos and videos to another device.

How to download photos and videos from the Photos app

If you lot want to download a total-size copy of your photos and videos from the Photos app to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iOS 10.three or later or iPadOS, or your Mac with Os X Yosemite x.10.3 or after, follow these steps.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon

  1. Get to Settings > [your name].
  2. Tap iCloud, so tap Photos.
  3. Select Download and Continue 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, so go to the Albums tab.
  2. Scroll downwards to Shared Albums and select an album.
  3. Tap the photo or video, then tap the share button.
  4. Choose Salve Image or Save Video.

On your Mac

  1. Open Photos, so select a Shared Anthology from the left-mitt card.
  2. Select the photo or video.
  3. Control-click a photo or video, then choose Import.

On your PC

In iCloud for Windows 11.1:

  1. Cull Start menu > iCloud Shared Albums.
  2. Double-click the shared album that you want to download photos or videos from.
  3. Double-click a photograph or video, then re-create it to another folder on your figurer.

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 photo or video, and then re-create it to another binder on your computer.

To download the full album, open a File Explorer window or Windows Explorer window (Windows 7), open up the Pictures folder, then open the iCloud Photos binder. Copy the Shared Album folder to another location on your computer.

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