My 64gb is almost full up. My photos are backing up to iCloud so are saved. However I can’t recall my iCloud password at present. As I rarely use it.
What is the best/easiest way to backup 18,000 photos/videos to my external drive?
I’ve tried connecting my iPhone to my computer via usb lead on but my computer only sees the photos I’ve taken today. About 6.
Desperately need help please. Thanks all.","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48365451","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"theRainMan"},"datePublished":"2022-10-05T10:35:30.000Z","text":"I wanted to download and backup my 55GB of photos. They are uploaded to iCloud but I wanted to take back some of the space. As I didn't fancy downloading 1000 at a time, I started hunting around on YouTube on what to do. I found one video and only one I could find that mentioned the Apple Data and Privacy site - Data & privacy (apple.com)
I was able to download my iCloud photos in 10GB chunks. My request took a few days as they have to make sure I made the request and prepare the downloads.
Like the Google Takeout this allows you to get a copy of all the data Apple has.
Now I know you mentioned you cannot remember the password for the Apple ID but you may still be able to get in if you call Apple Support, they will confirm you are who you say you are and could help you get back in, or at the very least allow you to download your data.
Hopefully this helps someone."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48353675","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Azwipe"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T17:34:12.000Z","text":"This is exactly why i ditched Apple and went back to Android. They make it so difficult to move picture and video files to PC in the hope you will just buy more storage."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48351678","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"sm9690"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T12:20:03.000Z","text":"Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac or PC - Apple Support"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48351976","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"dipsylalapo"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T13:10:22.000Z","text":"From your settings, your phone will only have lower resolution pics and the full resolution ones will be in iCloud.
The only way you're able to get back your full resolution photos is going to be via iCloud. There must be a way to recover your password so I'd try that.
I've just logged into iCloud and I can use CMD + A (or Ctrl + A) to select all photos and then I have the option to download. Not sure if this will work with your numbers. If it doesn't, another way to get the pics is via a data request to Apple. The photos may be strange (different names, different metadata etc) but you should be able to get the full resolution copies."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48352420","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"mxttkeep"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T14:08:52.000Z","text":"If you have access to the email that's associated with the iCloud that would be the best place to start.
1.Reset your password - support.apple.com/en-…487
2. Log in to iCloud - Select photos - then you can download ALL at once into a massive .zip file. It will take time depending on your internet speed but that's the best idea."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48353422","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"BadMF"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T16:50:55.000Z","text":"3uTools, did a backup recently of over 400GB. Took while even over USB3.0"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48357473","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"BadMF"},"datePublished":"2022-10-04T09:20:13.000Z","text":"3uTools so much easier. Literally select image folder, tell it where you want them copying too, click next and a progress bar pops up showing you how many files is remaining.
Job done"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48353447","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"aLV426"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T16:56:06.000Z","text":"Best way? Get someone to do it for you..."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48351744","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"sussexroyal"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T12:30:03.000Z","text":"There must be loads you could delete."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48351746","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"rofiquel"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T12:30:21.000Z","text":"Does your iTunes on your PC have the password saved?
If so try, iFunBox"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48351752","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"steve765"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T12:31:37.000Z","text":"Am trying this.
Concerned about this but though.
If you have iCloud Photos turned on, you need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch before you import to your PC."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48351792","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Backinamo"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T12:39:39.000Z","text":"Tried to transfer a similar number of photos from iphone and icloud to external hard drive and failed. Will follow this for tips. Theoretically, it says you can drag and drop 1,000 photos at a time, this didn't work for me."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48351922","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"steve765"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T13:02:07.000Z","text":"Not getting anywhere fast. Updated iTunes. Think this is going to take a while to sort.
Maybe I should stop taking photos for the time being."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48352027","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Russ2626"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T13:17:59.000Z","text":"You should just be able to view all of the photos by connecting your iPhone to computer with USB and copy them to an external drive.
Are you sure the rest of them are not in another folder? (use the standard file explorer to find them rather than trying to import using another program)"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48352039","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"steve765"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T13:19:19.000Z","text":"After updating iTunes managed to update my iCloud password. Can get into iCloud now on my pc
Says I can only download 1000 at a time. Other user said it didn’t work for him though. Will try.
Don’t want to get in this situation again.
Think my phone is taking backups of backups (very likely).
Not sure what best way to have things backing up. Any suggestions pls?"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48352822","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"steve765"},"datePublished":"2022-10-03T15:07:17.000Z","text":"Thanks all for your help. One step at a time. Going to try tackle again another day."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48356899","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"TheBigLebolchski"},"datePublished":"2022-10-04T08:00:40.000Z","text":"1) If you don't know your password, rest your password
2) Download the official Apple iCloud for Windows
3) Login to iCloud for Windows
4) Copy/paste images to your external storage
"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48362590","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"43tr"},"datePublished":"2022-10-04T20:48:03.000Z","text":"I don't have much to add as the others seem to know more about this then me but I recently did something similar with my Google photos. I had around 50k photos and had to use the Google takeout method. It was a major pain in the ass. Google duplicated every image but I'm glad I have my photos out of there"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/48362809","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"madoka_ayukawa"},"datePublished":"2022-10-04T21:16:34.000Z","text":"Makes my head hurts now just thinking about the same thing over my wife's 110,000 photos on her iPhone😵"}],"commentCount":52,"interactionStatistic":9,"articleSection":"Ask"}