How to Transfer iCloud Photos to Gallery Easily

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• Preface
• How to Transfer iCloud Photos to Gallery [iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch]
• How to Transfer iCloud Photos to Gallery [Mac]
• Bonus Tip: How to Transfer iCloud Photos to Another Cloud
• In the End

Preface

iCloud Photos is a popular cloud service that allows users to store and share pictures with their friends. Sometimes, users need to upload photos to iCloud to save their iPhone storage space and to make a backup. In return, they may need to download pictures from iCloud Photos to iPhone, iPad, or Mac to access photos offline.

In this post, we will show you how to transfer iCloud Photos to gallery on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Also, there is a warm tip for you to transfer iCloud Photos to another cloud service with ease. Before getting started, you should make sure the storage space is sufficient no matter what device you want to save your iCloud photos.

How to Transfer iCloud Photos to Gallery [iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch]

If you intend to download photos from iCloud to iPhone or iPad, then you can follow the operations below:

Step 1: Open the Settings app on your iPhone, and then tap your profile image. Then head to iCloud > Photos in the next window. 

Step 2: Enable iCloud Photos and select the Download and Keep Originals button. Then iCloud photos will be downloaded to your iPhone automatically.

This is how to transfer photos from iCloud to iPhone gallery. It is simple, isn’t it? If you are using iPad, you can follow the similar steps above.

How to Transfer iCloud Photos to Gallery [Mac]

If you want to download photos from iCloud Photos to your Mac, then you can the Download feature on Mac. Here’s how to achieve it:

Step 1: 1. Launch Photos app on your Mac. And press the Preferences button on the top left side.

Step 2: Tick the Download originals to this Mac tab under iCloud Photos. In this way, iCloud photos will be downloaded to your Mac quickly and successfully.

After saving photos from iCloud to your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you can access them offline, which is useful when the internet connection is not stable and the data traffic is run out of.

Also, you can go to iCloud on the web. Then head to iCloud Photos and select the photos you want to move to gallery to download. In this way, photos will be downloaded on your computer directly.

Bonus Tip: How to Transfer iCloud Photos to Another Cloud

Although iCloud offers iOS users a practical place to save various kinds of files, it only offers 5GB of free storage space, which means users can only store a limited number of photos on iCloud Photos. And when users switch from iPhone to Android, or from Mac to Windows, they will switch from iCloud to Google Drive, Google Photos, OneDrive, Dropbox, or other cloud services.

When it happens, users need to migrate iCloud Photos to other cloud services such as Google Photos. Then, how to complete this target easily and quickly? In the past, many users would download photos from iCloud Photos and then upload them to Google Photos manually. This solution is time-consuming and requires good internet connection.

To ease your work, it is recommended to utilize a popular and smart cloud-to-cloud transfer tool called MultCloud. This service allows users to migrate files from one cloud to another directly without going through a troublesome download-and-upload process. In this way, large files can be moved as fast as possible.

Meanwhile, users can enjoy many benefits if they choose MultCloud to move photos between iCloud Photos and Google Photos. For instance:

In the next part, we will split how to transfer iCloud Photos to another cloud into steps. And we will take Google Photos as an example.

Step 1: Sign up for an account on MultCloud for free. Or, you can sign in with your Facebook or Google account.

Step 2: Click on the Add Cloud button on the left sidebar. Then press iCloud Photos to add and grant MultCloud access. Then use the same way to add Google Photos.

Step 3: Navigate to Cloud Transfer. Then choose iCloud Photos as the source cloud drive and Google Photos as the target cloud service. After that, you can start the process by hitting the Transfer Now button.

MultCloud allows you to transfer files between other cloud drives as well. For example, you are able to move files from Dropbox to Google Drive directly and effortlessly. Meanwhile, there are other general features that users can enjoy:

• Options: You can head to this section to enable Email Notification. Or utilize the Filter feature to quickly exclude files with certain extensions quickly.
• Schedule: Go to this tab, and you can set up automatic transfer tasks to run them at a regulated time, daily, weekly, or monthly.

In the End

After reading this article, you now know how to transfer iCloud Photos to gallery on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Also, we offer you an easy and simple solution to transfer photos from iCloud Photos to another cloud effortlessly with MultCloud.

Apart from transferring files, MultCloud also allows you to sync and backup data between cloud drives. For example, you are able to backup OneDrive to Synology NAS easily without downloading and uploading.