How To Import Photos From Icloud Drive
Transfer photos from icloud to external hard drive.
How to import photos from icloud drive. In icloud photos make sure you are on photos tab and click on the first photo. Plug in your external hard drive to your computer via a usb cable. Locate the icloud drive folder containing the photos and videos which you want to import. You can see that the picture has been uploaded to icloud drive. Having an additional backup of photos on an external drive ensures that you do not lose.
Click show icloud photo button click use icloud button. To enable icloud photo library you ll also need to enable the photos option here. After you have downloaded the photos from icloud on your windows pc or mac you can start to transfer them to your external hard drive. A finder window opens up. Click on photos on your iphone select one picture tap the button at the lower left corner then tap add to icloud drive.
You can select the photos videos or an entire folder. Open the icloud drive app on your iphone. Select import to library option. On a mac open the icloud preferences window and enable it. Enter it to continue then click the icon icloud drive to backup icloud to external hard drive.
If you didn t enable icloud drive during installation you can do it later. For ios 10 2 or earlier version users just go to settings icloud photos to turn on it. 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. Setting your name icloud enable icloud drive. 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.
Press and hold shift ctrl alt keys and press the down arrow key to select all icloud photos. Icloud photos to google photos step 4. Then select icloud photo library to turn on it. If it is your fist time to log into icloud drive in that device your iphone will receive a verification code. Choose the photo you want to save and then click the cloud image icon to backup icloud to external hard drive.