Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel and today is how to transfer your iCloud photos
and videos to your computer easily, if you use the iCloud on your iPhone to keep all your photos and
videos for storage then to transfer them onto your PC or Laptop is a nice easy procedure,
now the reason you may want to do this is because believe it or not a lot of your photos and videos
won't be stored on your iPhone anymore, if you use the iCloud for storage although you can see
them on your iPhone these are smaller versions of the real versions and you can prove this by
looking at a video clip, so this particular video clip if I click on Edit at the top
you'll notice in the middle it says Downloading,
so this isn't actually on my iPhone it's actually on the iCloud and it's downloading it from there
There's a couple of different settings on your iPhone so if we go into Settings
scroll down and then select Photos
The iCloud photos is Enabled and we've got it ticked on 'Optimised Phone Storage' that
basically means if your iPhone is low on space, full resolution photos and videos
are replaced with smaller versions on your local iPhone and full resolution versions of photos
and videos can be downloaded from the iCloud, and that's what we'll do next. You can select
'Download and Keep Originals' but this will fill up your iPhone very quickly. On your Desktop PC
or Laptop open up a web browser I'm just going to go into Google Chrome, type in icloud.com
It will then ask you to login now this will be your Apple ID and your Apple ID
password so type that in then type in your password, depending on the security setup
a verification code may pop up on your iPhone and you need to put this into your web browser
Then press Enter then click on Trust this Browser because I trust it because I'm on it myself.
And then it logs you into your iCloud account, now oddly it's saying good evening 'Lurgs' and
it's nine o'clock in the morning, very odd! I guess it's because Google is American. Now when
you login it defaults to Moments I prefer to have it on Photos, that shows you all photos
and I've got 38 videos and photos here on the iCloud and if we quickly look at the iPhone
you can see that this matches identically, you can move this slider backwards and forwards to
make the images larger you can also select your albums in here like you've got on your iPhone,
I'm just going to select Photos, now to download just a few selected photos or videos hold down
the Control key [Ctrl] on your keyboard and then use your mouse and then just left click
and select all the photos and videos that you want to download so I'm going to select this one
this one and then a few more
So I've got 6 selected in total then what you do is up the top here you've got this Download
option, click on that and then the bottom left hand corner
is downloading that as a ZIP file so that is all those 6 objects being downloaded now if
we go to File Explorer in Windows click on Refresh double click the .ZIP file
double click iCloud photos then if we select Extract To, I'm just going to
extract it to Downloads and click OK, that has now extracted those photos and that video clip
down to the Downloads folder and these are all full resolution as they were filmed and shot
Fabulous. Now if you want to select all items from your iCloud that is just as easy
so if we go back to the iCloud web browser now if you hold the [Shift] key down on your keyboard
and then use your mouse so keep the [Shift] key held down select the first object in the iCloud
and then scroll to the end and select the last object all the time holding the [Shift] key down
this selects all the objects you can see there there's 38 selected, then click on the Download
option it's now downloading all of those I'm going to speed this footage up 250 megabytes roughly
Click on Refresh and there is that ZIP file with all those objects inside there nice and simple,
don't forget to logout of your iCloud for security just click on Sign Out, Trust and Sign Out.
You can also if you want to download iCloud for Windows and then it will automatically
sync anything on the iCloud with your Windows App, and I'll tell you what
that definitely deserves a lovely cup of tea!
I hope you found that useful over here is a link on how to send voice memos from your iPhone
to your computer and up on this side there's a link
on what to do if your iPhone to Laptop hotspot is not working properly,
thanks for visiting my channel everyone I really really appreciate it. 'Lurgs'.