The Download button in the iCloud "Photos" section on a laptop.
Khamosh Pathak

If y'all have an iPhone with base storage, you're virtually likely used to backing up your photos on Apple's iCloud. Merely what if you want to share or download your backed-upward iPhone photos? Well, you tin can download them directly from iCloud to your Mac!

If all your photos are on your iPhone, you can just share them with your Mac via AirDrop. If they're not, though, it tin can take a long fourth dimension to download your older photos to your iPhone, and then share them. It'southward much quicker to download them from the cloud to your reckoner.

To do this, open iCloud.com on your Mac, log in with your Apple ID (the aforementioned ID you utilise on your iPhone), and then click the Next button.

Type your Apple ID, and then click the Next button.

Here, click "Photos."

Click "Photos."

You at present run across the Apple Photos interface in your browser. If you've used the Photos app on your Mac earlier, yous'll be familiar with it.

Navigate to the particular album or media type in the sidebar. You can also but get to the "Photos" section and curlicue up to find older images.

Click an album in the sidebar.

When you locate the photo or video yous want to download, click information technology to highlight it. If you want to select multiple files, agree down the "Shift" cardinal while you click them.

Select the photos or videos you want to download.

Later on y'all select all the photos or videos you lot want to salve locally, click the Download button in the toolbar at the summit. Your Mac will download the photos and videos in a total-resolution format.

Click the Download button in iCloud.

When the download completes, go to the Downloads folder on your computer to view your photos and videos.

If you want to share photos and videos from your iPhone with your friends, nosotros've outlined the best methods in our iPhone photograph-sharing guide.

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