iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customize and use the homepage
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
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- Photos on iCloud.com overview
- View your photos and videos
- Hide your photos and videos
- Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Upload and download photos
- Add a title or caption
- Organize photos and videos
- Add photos and videos to Favorites
- Play a slideshow of photos
- Delete and recover photos and videos
- Share photos and videos
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows computer
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
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View your photos and videos on iCloud.com
You can view photos, videos, and memories stored in iCloud Photos using a web browser.
Note: You can’t see your iCloud Shared Albums on iCloud.com. To view your iCloud Links, see Share photos and videos with an iCloud Link on iCloud.com.
View your photos and videos
In Photos on iCloud.com, do one of the following:
Click Library in the sidebar to see thumbnails of all your photos and videos.
If you don’t see the sidebar, click
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Click an album or folder in the sidebar to view its contents.
To change the size of the thumbnails, use the slider in the Photos toolbar.
You can also switch views between your Personal Library, Shared Library, or Both Libraries. See View your iCloud Shared Photo Library on iCloud.com.
View your photos and videos in full-screen mode
You can have your photos take up the full browser window, so you aren’t distracted by the sidebar or toolbars.
In Photos on iCloud.com, double-click the thumbnail of a photo, then click
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To move between photos or videos, do any of the following:
Press the arrow keys on your keyboard.
Hold the pointer over the left or right side of a photo, then click the arrow that appears.
Hold the pointer over the top of a photo, click in the top-left corner, then click a thumbnail at the bottom of the window to jump to that photo.
To exit this view, hold the pointer over the top of a photo, then click
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View your memories
The Photos app recognizes significant people, places, and events in your library, and presents them in curated collections called Memories.
In Photos on iCloud.com, click Memories in the sidebar.
If you don’t see the sidebar, click
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At the top, choose Memories or Favorite Memories.
Note: If you don’t see any memories, try opening them on your device first. See the Apple Support article Use Memories in Photos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Click a memory to play it.
While the memory plays, hold the pointer over the memory, then do any of the following:
Pause: Click
in the bottom-right corner. To start playing again, click
.
View the memory full screen: Click
in the bottom-left corner. To exit full screen view, click
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Restart the memory: Click
in the bottom-left corner.
See all the photos in the memory: Click
in the bottom-right corner.
Stop watching the memory: Click
in the top-left corner.
You can also play your photos in a slideshow.
Learn how to use iCloud Photos on iCloud.com on a phone or tablet.