
Simply open the Photos app, navigate to Albums and open All Photos. To answer the second half of your question, you can delete the complete contents of your iCloud Photo Library directly on your iOS device. Note that in Windows 10, you might not see a Favorites folder, but you will see Quick access instead. This feature isn't easy to find, but works as advertised. Your photos and videos download to the location you set in iCloud Photos Options. Choose the photos and videos you want to download and click Download.Yes, as of July 2018, using the iCloud for Windows software, you can download your entire iCloud Photo Library in a single operation using the Download photos and videos feature, which appears as a button in the toolbar of the iCloud Photos folder in Windows Explorer.

I don't have a PC to test, but that might be the simplest option if it works. Lastly, you could try using iTunes to copy the files to your PC. It has built in save to iCloud Documents which would work with iCloud software on PC.


If I were to do this, I'd probably use the Workflow app to automate the saving of the files to the location of your choice. The share sheet on iOS 9 and the Photos app on iOS look like they will save entire albums to DropBox, but you could run into storage issues and have to chunk things a few GB at a time.

You could try those to see how easy their export from cloud to PC is. Flickr, google, dropbox all come to mind with native apps that want to store all your photos in the cloud. If you only have easy access to an iOS device, then you'll want to look into apps that can ingest all the local versions of the library and upload it to their cloud. Apple doesn't have a Photos app for PC, so the easiest way would be to borrow a Mac and log in to a new user and download all the photos to the Mac.Īt that point, you can export the entire library to storage that's readable by your PC.
