Comment by cdrnsf
1 day ago
I'm not sure it's surprising. Apple doesn't want you to leave and making something as important as your photos difficult to move helps with that.
1 day ago
I'm not sure it's surprising. Apple doesn't want you to leave and making something as important as your photos difficult to move helps with that.
From 2024:
> Users of Google and Apple’s photo cloud services can now transfer images between them. It was already possible to export photos and videos from iCloud to Google Photos, but now it can also be done the other way around: from Google Photos to iCloud.
https://www.techzine.eu/news/applications/122196/google-and-... (2023 Data Transfer Initiative (DTI))
What’s missing?
The files are there on the Mac, they are there to download on the cloud (various mentions of method mentioned here).
There is NO button on Mac to download photos from iCloud. You can only do this from your phone and then synchronise them to your Mac.
Yes, there is a button on Mac: https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/use-icloud-photos-pht...
As long as you are signed into the Mac with the same iCloud account used on the iPhone, this will download them all. No, you do not need to get them all downloaded to the iPhone ever for any reason for this to work. Period. You need to stop repeating that, because it is wrong. How many people have to say the same thing?
Yes, you will have to go into a hidden folder to access the Originals once they're downloaded if you want to copy them somewhere else, but it's like two clicks.
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You can use the Photos app on your Mac and download originals
There are two options in the file menu - you can export the originals, and there is an option to export them as .jpg.
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Select all, Files > Export. It's simple to download iCloud Photos.
One of us is missing something. In Photos.app I clicked download originals. The photos are there on my Mac. It’s bit gross to get at them though - right click on app > show package contents.
Are you wanting a way that doesn’t involve the photos app?
You can do that from iCloud over a browser.
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