If you use iCloud photos you can not only view and manage your photos on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC, this is also possible via the iCloud website.
Handy if you do not have access to your own computer and yet want to manage your photo library on a desktop. The photo part on the iCloud website can be compared with the Mac version of photos and offers various options for managing the photos, you can also easily download them via the website.
Manage photos via the iCloud website
- Open a web browser on a desktop
- Navigate to the iCloud.com website
- Log in with your iCloud account
- Click on ‘Photos’
- Your iCloud photo library will be opened
With the help of the navigation column you can quickly consult your albums. When you open a photo you will also see a metinal view of all other photos in this album at the bottom. This allows you to navigate quickly to another photo, something that was desirable in the online version.
In the button bar you can mark a photo as a favorite (heart), update (cloud with an arrow up), download (cloud with arrow down) or remove (garbage bowl). With the help of the Plus button you can add the photo to an album or create a new album.
Click on the three dots for more options such as sharing via the Deel-button (square with arrow up), add to an album, make a slide show, hide and more.
Select multiple photos quickly
You can select multiple photos and videos in different ways in photos via iCloud. This way you can drag a frame around the photos you want to scrape. Of course you can also select multiple photos in the overview by the command⌘ hold down. Click all photos one by one or use the A-S key to select all media. In Windows you can control-Ston or Alt Gr-Test.
Finally, you can select the first photo in a series by clicking it. Then holds shift⇧ Pressed while clicking on the last photo in a series, all photos and videos are selected in between.
Export photos and videos via iCloud.com
- Log in with you Apple account on iCloud.com
- Click on ‘Photos’
- Select all photos (command⌘ + A or Control^ + A)
- Click on the selected photos with a secondary click (right mouse button)
- Choose ‘Download’ or ‘More Download options’
- Make a choice
In addition to ‘download’ you can also opt for ‘more download options’, this is very interesting if you want to download photos and videos permanently and keep it elsewhere. This way you can choose to the ‘Unaltered originals‘Export files. These are the photos and videos as recorded or imported. In addition, you can also choose ‘Highest resolutionor ‘or’Most compatible. ‘