Hello lovely people of YouTube and welcome to the computer labs YouTube
channel and today we are looking at how to get the photos from the Apple iCloud
and then store them onto your Mac if you are looking for the how-to for a Windows
machine - Windows 10 then please do look at one of my other videos this will
purely show you how to get the photos from your Apple iCloud account to your
Apple Mac it is a bit easier on the Mac bit straightforward compared to the
Windows but if that's what you have to please do carry on watching ok so the
first thing that we need to do is open our Photos app up so photos I have mine
down on my taskbar at the bottom here as you can see if you don't have yours
there just push f4 on the keyboard so you can do a quick search for it and
have a look for photos this is the same one, so click on photos that will open
up the photos app or program on your Apple machine ok so you see that in my photo
library at the moment on the left hand side I have 5060 items in this
particular photos collection it now this particular machine I actually they do download
them onto my Mac and you might do the same therefore they are stored in a
photo album that has a very strange final configuration really hard to find
all the photos in so we are obviously just downloading them out of the cloud
and onto this machine so first thing once we're in the app is to go up to the
option at the top click on photos and then down into preferences in photos so
here we have the options that I was talking about so you need to make sure
you might start in the general will click on the iCloud and yours if you
are paying for anything this item will be ticked so if you're paying for photo
storage you'll see it open a box up now and same to me ok sees how many photos
I've got I need to pay this per month if I want to store them in the icloud
I don't want to do that I'm actually storing mine on that machine but the box
that you need to take is this one that is currently greyed out on mine but download
originals to this Mac that's the one that you want to make sure that is
selected. So once that's selected and ticked come back out of the preferences
and now we need to select all the photographs in our library so obviously
if it's the first time you go open the app it might just take it a minute just
to download the items from the cloud onto the Mac so then it put some all in
the photos app, so then we need to select all so there's couple ways of
doing this we can go up to the top, make sure we store are still in the Photos app click on
edit and with a of the select all command you'll see next to it you can
see the CMD key and A selects all so if I pick there you'll see them all blue
box appears so it's now selected all the photographs it's got 5,000 and 60 items
selected in my Photos app like I said you can use the shortcuts or use command
and "a" and it selects them all as well. okay so now we have all the photos are selected
make sure it tells you that in the top right hand corner we now want to export
these into a folder we can recognize on the Mac so we can then move that across
maybe onto a storage device a USB stick or whatever whenever we want but they
won't be in the cloud that's the aim so I want to get these out of the cloud
onto this machine so then we need to go to file in the top menu down to export
2 options: if you want to keep the area modified so you know yourself you can
modify items in the cloud you can put writing on them change the colors and
the stuff which the top one will do there or you can do the "export
unmodified originals" so basically you tick the top option it will give you
different options just pick for the video quality 4k 1080p and stuff like
that but we have to do unmodified I want off, all as they were, so we have the
perfect quality on each different photo and movie because it does also store
movies and MP4 in the icloud okay so export unmodified original items for
obviously how many you have selected. Mine is 5060 this then that brings up
this export box and it's saying okay do you want to use a file name your choose a title
I'll leave this file name and the bottom option here I usually select this as a
moment name because what that will do it will name it with the different moment
names that you have in your photos apps so that mean it labels it with an area that you've
been to or a date which puts most important for me it puts dates on them
now see you then can just drag them into a different folder and organize them
from there okay so I'll click export.
It asks us where I want to save these to, obviously you can save them to pictures or
documents wherever you want them, for this particular video I'll just create a new
folder so I'm gonna name it I'm gonna save them into documents you might want to
save into pictures and I'm going to name it something so I will name it how to
save photos from Apple iCloud to your Mac. So obviously yours will be named
something totally different to that place just so we've got an idea where
they go so click create it'll then create that folder and now I want to
export the originals to that folder so click on export originals and then what it
does now it starts to download all the photos from the iCloud account on to
your Apple machine into the folder we have just created it doesn't look like
it's do anything but the way to tell is just go up to the top left hand corner
see little circle if you click on that it will show you a moving bar of it
exporting the items from your iCloud account into the folder that you have
just created on your Mac machine so just to keep this how-to video moving along
quickly I shall a speed up the export process
and just so you are not sat watching a blue bar going across the screen is so I'll just
speed this section up when it's finished we're good to go
okay so we're just getting to the end of the exports and when it's finished the
final one you get a box in the top right hand corner it says export completes a
you have saved photos from the Apple iCloud to your Mac so that is where they
have gone to so let's have a look at that file so does minimize photos down
now and we'll go to the folder where they have just been exported to when I
go to documents and the folder that I just created which was how to save
photos from Apple iCloud to your Mac so I will open that folder up
and then you can see in this folder because the way I selected the different
options it has now put them into different dates which is brilliant so
you can then and it's also put them into areas which again is great you can
select the two different option if you wanna try which one you want to go for
make you see all the different files or folders that it was created with all the
dates on at the end and different things in them so a really nice little tool and
there's all the pictures within the folders and also movies you can see
there's all the photographs just top one up to tiberias there well that's it now
all the photos are now saved onto my Mac in a folder structure I can it now on
the stand and possibly move them onto google photos or a storage device of my
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