iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customise and use the homepage tiles
- Apple Invites
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
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- Photos on iCloud.com overview
- View your photos and videos
- Browse photos or videos by date
- Hide your photos and videos
- Upload and download photos
- Add or edit a title, caption or other metadata
- Organise photos and videos
- Add photos and videos to Favourites
- 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

Delete and recover photos and videos on iCloud.com
When you delete a photo or video from Photos on iCloud.com, it is also deleted from all your devices that have iCloud Photos turned on. If you change your mind, you have 30 days to recover it before it is permanently deleted.
About shared photos and videos
If you delete a photo or video in a shared album or a shared library, it’s deleted from the devices of all members. You also may not be able to delete photos and videos other people have added:
Shared albums: If you’re the creator of a shared album, you can delete any photos, videos or comments in the album. If you’re a subscriber, you can delete anything that you personally added.
Shared libraries: Any participant of a shared library can delete photos and videos. Only the person who added the photo or video to the shared library can permanently delete it before 30 days have passed.
Delete photos and videos
Go to icloud.com/photos, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Select the photos or videos you want to delete.
Select
, then select Delete.
Deleted photos and videos are moved to the Recently Deleted album.
To permanently delete photos or videos before they’re automatically deleted, go to the Recently Deleted album, select the items you want to delete, then select Delete.
Recover photos and videos
Go to icloud.com/photos, then sign in to your (if necessary).Apple Account
Select the Recently Deleted album in the sidebar.
Select the photos or videos you want to recover, then select Recover.