Backing up iCloud Photos to External Hard Drive

I want to take all 16K of my photos out of the cloud and back them up on an external hard drive. What is the best way to do this? If I follow the online instructions I would have to pull 1K and risk timing out issues.

iPhone XR, iOS 14

Posted on Jan 23, 2021 3:07 PM

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tygb

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Jan 23, 2021 7:00 PM in response to Ashleighvilla

See the thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252228072

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