Download Apple Photos Library

To learn how to download photos from your iphone to your mac using the photos app keep reading.

Download apple photos library. Icloud photos gives you access to your entire mac photo and video library from all your devices. Photos will now attempt to download all the media stored in your icloud photo library to the external drive. These media files are accessible from any devices that have access to your apple id.

If you want to download your photo or video as it was originally captured or imported choose unmodified original. You can interrupt the process by quitting photos and ejecting the drive. And with icloud photos your photos are available on all your devices.

All your photos on all your devices. You can move photos and videos from your iphone ipad or ipod touch to your mac or pc. When you make edits in the photos app on your ios or ipados device or on your mac the photo automatically updates across all your devices so when you crop or enhance a photo from your iphone you see the changes when you access your library from your mac.

If you have a permissions issue with your library you might be able to resolve the issue by using the photos library repair tool. If the volume isn t formatted apfs or mac os extended journaled or has been used for time machine backups but hasn t been erased this checkbox will either not be present or won t be selectable after unlocking. Click and hold the download button in the upper corner of the window.

With fewer files needing to be stored on your device your device s memory is optimized and more free space is available. Your original photos and videos are stored in icloud and you can go back to them at any time and revert any changes you made. Did this summary help you.

Using icloud photo library.