How To Import Photos From Icloud Drive
Open the icloud drive app on your iphone.
How to import photos from icloud drive. If you didn t enable icloud drive during installation you can do it later. To enable icloud photo library you ll also need to enable the photos option here. Open iphoto on mac. If it is your fist time to log into icloud drive in that device your iphone will receive a verification code. Icloud photos to google photos step 4.
On a mac open the icloud preferences window and enable it. Press and hold shift ctrl alt keys and press the down arrow key to select all icloud photos. Setting your name icloud enable icloud drive. Although icloud photos is considered to be a safe and secure place to store photos it is still a good practice to download all your photos from icloud to an external hard drive as a precautionary backup. Drag and drop them into iphoto viewing area.
Then select icloud photo library to turn on it. If you use mac please go to system preferences icloud to click options next to photos. Locate the icloud drive folder containing the photos and videos which you want to import. Plug in your external hard drive to your computer via a usb cable. Transfer photos from icloud to external hard drive.
Click show icloud photo button click use icloud button. You can also scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the last photo. You can select the photos videos or an entire folder. Click on the new button as is shown below select file upload choose photos downloaded from icloud your icloud photos will soon be moved to google drive. Choose the photo you want to save and then click the cloud image icon to backup icloud to external hard drive.
For ios 10 2 or earlier version users just go to settings icloud photos to turn on it. In icloud photos make sure you are on photos tab and click on the first photo. Find the photo files saved from icloud and copy them to your external hard drive with ease. Select import to library option. On an ios device open the settings app select icloud and turn on icloud drive.