Ways to access iPhone photos in iCloud

When it comes to access iPhone photos in iCloud, there are several ways we can use to access them on iCloud.

Smart phone camera has always been a convenient feature for us to capture photos, especially iPhone, it can help us take more beautiful pictures. But soon or later, you may want to get those pictures off your iPhone to get more space, on the other hand, you may want to keep them safe, so you will backup them in iCloud. And it’s always a good choice.

Now we’ll talk about how to access iPhone photos in iCloud when you have backup your photos in it.

Method 1. Access Photos from Web iCloud

As we know we can also log in iCloud on our PC through PC browser, now we can also check our photos from it.

1.open browser on your PC, navigated to iCloud.com.

2.log in it with your Apple ID and password, then you can see all your backup files.

3. click photo files to view photos, but it will be with small image icon, and you can just see part of them.

Method 2. Access iPhone photos in iCloud by restoring the photos

It doesn’t support us to access photos directly from iCloud, but we can restore them first from iCloud, then check them. But it just doesn’t support us to do it selectively.

1, Connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--General--Erase all content and settings, when all content and settings are erased, go to setup assistant with a hello screen.

2. Swipe to begin setup progress, choose the files you need and click“ Restore from backup”, and confirm with “Restore”. Then you can check the files you need.

Method 3. Access iPhone photos in iCloud with iRefone

iRefone is a powerful iOS data recovery software, which can recover contact, messages, notes, WeChat messages/photos ect. It supports you to preview photos in iCloud or iTunes backup, and you can also restore those photos selectively.

Please download and install the free trial version to have a try.



1, Run iRefone, choose “Recover from iCloud Backup Files”, log in it with your Apple ID and password.



2, Then all the files in your iCloud backup will show up, click “Download” at the end of the files you need.



3, When finish download, we’ll enter a new interface with many files that iRefone can recover, click “Photo” icon, and it’ll be scanned by the software itself.



4, After scanning, you can preview and restore those photos selectively. Then tap on “ Recover to PC” if you need to restore them, and choose the folder path to save them.



Remark: when you lost or deleted some of your iPhone data without backup, iRefone can also help us get them back.

For detailed steps, you can check below link:

Restore Lost App Data on iPhone