Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel and today it's how to get your iPhone iCloud
photos and videos from your iCloud down to your computer, now there's quite a few different ways
to do this and I'll show you 2 options today, option 1 is to download all your iCloud photos
down to your iPhone and then copy them from your iPhone to your computer, BUT this is very risky
because if you move all your photos and videos to your local iPhone it can fill up and you know what
happens when the iPhone fills up, it crashes! But I will show you how to do that anyway and option
2 is to log into the iCloud and download all your photos and videos from your iCloud to your local
computer and if you want to do it that way you can just skip to that chapter and I'll put the
chapter in the description. I'll show you option 1 first of all and show you what was happening,
plug in the iPhone into your Desktop PC or your Laptop and when I went into File Explorer and
explored the iPhone in the folders I'm clicking in the recent folders
and there's photos and videos which aren't appearing in here
but they're definitely on the iPhone
So I go to the iPhone go to Photos and I've got this group of photos and videos here
and when I look in File Explorer on the Windows PC they do not appear, now this is because these
videos and photos aren't actually on my iPhone they're actually on the iCloud,
and the way you can prove this is at the top if you select Edit you'll notice when I select it,
it says in the middle 'Downloading', so what it's doing is downloading that video clip
from the iCloud to your local iPhone, so then you can edit it
you've probably got hundreds and hundreds of videos and photos on the iCloud,
now what you can do is go into Settings on the iPhone scroll down to Photos, select Photos
and you've got this option 'Optimise iPhone Storage' or 'Download and keep Originals'
now if you select 'Download and keep Originals' what it will do then is it will start downloading
everything from the iCloud to your local iPhone and if you look at the top left hand corner you
can see the spinning round egg timer which means that it's downloading everything from the iCloud
to your local iPhone, now this is not a good option because what will happen is your iPhone
will quickly fill up and then it will most likely crash! So I wouldn't really recommend selecting
that option but if you do select that option and you've got plenty of space on your iPhone
what will happen is when you go to your File Explorer on your Windows computer those video
clips and photos will start appearing in that File Explorer folder and then you can just select those
and copy them to your PC so those are the clips there that are on my iPhone which
I couldn't see before so you can just select those using your mouse
then I'm just going to Right Click (on mouse) and then select Cut
and then go to the Folder on my Windows computer that I want to move them to
right click on the mouse and select paste now that is one way of doing it, but as I mentioned
I wouldn't recommend doing that unless you've got a huge amount of memory on your iPhone,
so select back to 'Optimise iPhone Storage' now we'll do the second option which is to download
anything you need from your iCloud account. Go to your Desktop PC or your Laptop go to icloud.com
sign in to your iCloud this will be your Apple ID and your Apple password
then select that arrow you will now get a Verification code popping up on your iPhone
this is to say that someone's trying to get into your iCloud,
type that verification code into the web browser
then press Enter, now it's verifying do you trust this browser, YES because I'm sitting here
and now you're logged into your iCloud account there's lots of
different settings in here but we're interested in photos so select Photos
when you go into it it defaults to Moments so at
the top if you select Photos that will give you all Photos
This is every single photo on your iCloud so if we
go to the scroll option on the right hand side I'm going to scroll all the way to the top
and this one is going all the way back to 2016.
we've got some photos here and I want to select one of these to download to my computer
This is the photo that I want to save to my computer if you right click on this
picture here and click Save Image and you can save the Thumbnail but
it won't be very big so what you need to do is double click into the photo
and then select this option on the top right hand corner which is Download the photo
and you can see in the bottom left it's downloaded IMG_2869,
now if we go to File Explorer on the computer look at the Downloads
click on Refresh, IMG2869 look at that it's 3.74 megabytes which is the full resolution picture,
if you want to download multiple photos and videos that's actually really easy hold down the Control
key [Ctrl] on your keyboard and with your mouse select all the photos and videos that you want
so I've got 4 selected here, again click on the Download icon at the top that will download the
items that you have selected, in the bottom left it's downloaded it as a ZIP file then if we go
to File Explorer go to Downloads double click on the .ZIP file that's just been downloaded
Select the iCloud photos folder then select 'Extract to', I'm just going to extract this
1 video clip and 3 photos to the downloads folder again click on Ok, now if we go to the Downloads
folder right click, click on Refresh we've got 3 photos here all at full resolution from the iCloud
and the full resolution video clip, so we can just double click on the video clip
and that is how you download multiple photos and videos from your iCloud account,
fantastic. And I tell you what that definitely deserves a lovely cup of tea, but first remember
to logout of your iCloud account you do this in the top right hand corner select your name
then click on 'Sign out', what you can also do to make it easier is you can
download iCloud for Windows then it will automatically Sync with your Windows PC
so you could also look into that option. Time for a brew!
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'.