How to Download iCloud Photos to Mac in 2 Easy Ways

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Find out how to download photos from iCloud to your Mac computer in 2 easy ways! We'll show you how to have your iCloud photos automatically sync to your Mac computer, or download photos from the iCloud website.

To sync your photos and videos from iCloud to Mac, open your Mac’s system preferences. Select iCloud. Beside Photos, click Options. Then click the box beside iCloud Photo library. Click Done to save your changes. After a few minutes, you can open the Photos app on your Mac, and all the photos from your iCloud account will be synced to your Mac.

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Looks like this needs to be updated. In Big Sur there is not 'Options' next to Photos when looking at the iCloud settings.

James-lwgi

Just EXCELLENT!! I just an enormous amount of time trying to download my next episode out of icloud on my Iphone X...Yikes-with no success. You just explained it in less than 3 minutes. All I can say is one word -A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! Thank You! S.R. Ridley, A Nurse You Can Trust!

truthhourhealthcareexposed

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Me and my family shared an icloud for so long, and just recently all our photos had combined, I was trying to figure out how to transfer mine to my new apple ID and this was so easy and helpful, THANK YOU!

Lxcylou

thank you so much, this really really helped me a lot.. because of your video I could recover my oldest and precious photos which I forgot that I synced in icloud.. You donno how happy I am right now.. Thank you thank you soooo much

supriyakrishnamurthy

And when you download photos from iCloud Photo library, they all have a new creation date of today. How can we get our photos out of iCloud and preserve their metadata -- at LEAST the creation date (date we took the photograph)?
I can't believe how lamely this was designed by all-seeing Apple.

screenstory

I want to download my photos from icloud to photos' macbook like the 1st method in the video.. but my macbook isn't downloading photos.. it just thinks there is nothing new in icloud, although latest photos in my mac are from 2017... how can I fix it?

mayumeaic

I used the 2nd method because the 1st wouldn't work for some reason. Thank you very much for this wonderful vid!
I think I hate Apple more than MS after this iCloud scam.
No way to treat customers Apple.

billytheweasel

Thank you! A little old, but this still helped. EDIT: Actually... was hoping to add to my photos app, not just my computer. "Photos" app on mac is just grayed out when I try to download any pictures... can't you just open Photos and access iCloud from there? Seems not... lame.

mrhobs

Note, that if you download your photos in big batches example 1000, the photos will be downloaded as low res. If you want them as originals you have to do them in much smaller batches

ervinisimo

1:13: how many minutes? have waited very long..:(

SpelProffsen

Idky but I just couldn’t figure out how to do this until I came on this page. Thanks!!

Sahil-rxoe

Ah....what a clever trap Apple has laid out for us all! To get your photos "off" iCloud you have to upload ALL your photos including those not already there - essentially, a two way sync....but to do so, you need to have enough space in your iCloud account....and therein lies the trap. It is very likely that the sync will require you to BUY space from Apple when in many cases, the whole exercise is to get your content OFF Apple's iCloud permanently. Sorry folks....it appears that once you upload a photo to iCloud Apple pretty much owns it....hence the reason there is no "select all" option (a pretty fundamental functionality) on the iCloud website to allow a full download of all images. You screwed us again Apple!

jacquesdubois

After the photos are downloaded, is it safe to delete your pictures from your icloud?

Looking to store them so I can free some space up on the cloud.

jordangonzales

Why do I not have an option button next to photos?!

jamisonstagaard

this is slightly off topic but can you move the apple photo library to icloud drive? i have thousands of photos in another library and i don't want them to sync across to all devices but i do want them backed up online as well as on an external hardrive.

lahannahlou