iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customize and use the homepage tiles
- Apple Invites
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
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- Photos on iCloud.com overview
- View your photos and videos
- Find your photos or videos
- Hide your photos and videos
- Upload and download photos
- Add star ratings, captions, and keywords
- Organize photos and videos
- Add photos and videos to Favorites
- Play a slideshow of photos
- Delete and recover photos and videos
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows device
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright and trademarks

Upload and download photos on iCloud.com
Photos you upload from your computer to iCloud.com are added to iCloud Photos and are visible on all of your devices that have iCloud Photos turned on. You can also download photos to keep them on your device.
Upload photos
You can upload photos and videos in multiple formats from your computer to your personal library, albums, and shared albums. See the Apple Support article Shared Album limits.
Go to icloud.com/photos, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Select Library in the sidebar, or select an album, then select
.Select
, then do either of the following:On a phone or tablet: Choose Photo Library, Take Photo or Video, or Choose Files, then follow the onscreen instructions.
On a computer: Select the photos or videos you want to add from your computer, then click Upload.
Tip: On a phone or tablet, after your photos and videos finish uploading, select
to add the items to an album, to show them in your library, or to show them in recents.
Note: If you want to upload photos to your iCloud Shared Photo Library, use the Photos app on a device with iOS 16.1, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, or later.
Download photos and videos
Photos and videos are downloaded in the most compatible format for the device you’re currently using.
Go to icloud.com/photos, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Select the photos or videos you want to download.
Do one of the following:
On a phone or tablet: Tap
in the bottom-right corner, tap Download, then tap Download again.On a computer: Click
.Tip: To choose a file format before you download, click
, click More Download Options, then click
next to a file format option.