How to merge iCloud photos from two different accounts? You will get 3 feasible solutions in this article. Read the article below to find the best way you like to merge all your photos from two iCloud accounts quickly and safely.
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If you don't want to experience cumbersome steps and long waiting time to merge iCloud Photos, you can use a professional cloud-to-cloud transfer tool---MultCloud. This excellent cloud data transfer tool can help you quickly merge all photos in two iCloud accounts together, even with different operating systems or devices.
Compared with other methods, using MultCloud to perform cloud file migration can experience the following advanced functions.
In addition, if you have other cloud accounts that need to be combined, you can add these accounts to MultCloud to manage cloud files in a unified manner, and even realize data migration, sync or backup between accounts. One thing to note is that MultCloud supports adding the following cloud accounts:
Dropbox, Dropbox Business, Google Drive, Google Workspace, Google Photos, iCloud Photos, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, MEGA, Flickr, Box, Box for Business, pCloud, Amazon S3, Wasabi, SugarSync, Evernote, Icedrive, CloudMe, Cubby, MyDrive, WEB.DE, Yandex, HiDrive, MySQL, Egnyte, Putio, Backblaze, MediaFire, ownCloud, ADrive, Baidu, even NAS, WebDAV, FTP/SFTP, Shared with me and Shared Drive.
Using "Cloud Transfer" provided by MultCloud, you can easily integrate all the pictures in two iCloud accounts (i.e. transfer photos from one iCloud account to another). The following are the detailed steps.
Step 1. First, you need to register an account using your email address. Alternatively, you can authorize login directly with your Google or Facebook account.
Step 2. After logging in to MultCloud, click "Add Cloud" and add your two iCloud Photos accounts to MultCloud respectively.
Step 3. Select "Cloud Transfer", and then select the album paths in the two iCloud Photos accounts as the source and destination respectively. It should be noted that the target path is the account path where you integrate all photos. Finally, click on "Transfer Now".
Before starting the task, you can set different transfer methods, file filtering or email notifications in "Options" according to your needs. Additionally, the "Schedule" option allows you to set a specific transmission time, such as daily, weekly or monthly.
In addition to the professional merging methods above, you can also use the merging methods provided by iCloud. Depending on the device you are using, you can use different processing methods. It should be noted that using the traditional merging method may take a long time and effort, because the whole process may be affected by the network and other factors.
If you are used to using a mobile phone, you can follow the steps below to merge iCloud Photos.
Step 1. Enter the "Settings" interface of the mobile phone, and then click your avatar to enter the Apple account setting interface.
Step 2. Select "iCloud" → select "Photos" → turn off "iCloud Photo Library", and then select "Download Photos & Videos" in the pop-up window to download photos from iCloud to iPhone.
Step 3. After that, log out of your iCloud account according to the instructions in the screenshot below.
Step 4. After you log out of iCloud, navigate back to "Settings > Name/Apple ID". Enter your new Apple ID and password, then click "Sign in" in the upper-right corner of the screen. Finally, follow the prompts to merge Safari data, reminders and contacts.
Step 5. Tap "iCloud", and then tap the "Photos" option to enable "iCloud Photo Library". All photos on the other iCloud account will then be merged into that account.
Whether you are a Windows user or an iOS user, you can log in to iCloud.com to merge photos from two Apple IDs.
Step 1. Go to iCloud.com on your PC's web browser. Sign in with your current Apple ID credentials. You'll come across a collection of iCloud apps, including Calendar, Contacts, and Mail. etc. Among these, you must select "Photos".
Step 2. Click "Photos" to view all the photos you've taken from your iPhone and saved on iCloud through the Photo Library app.
Step 3. Browse for the photo you want to download, click once to highlight or double-click to open. Then click "Download". Depending on the amount of image you want to transfer, the time it takes can range from a fraction of a second to a few minutes.
Step 4. Log out of your iCloud account and log in with another ID (target iCloud account).
Step 5. Now, just move all photo data to another iCloud ID to merge.
The traditional method can indeed help you merge photos from two iCloud accounts, but considering the time-consuming and complicated operation, you can use a professional cloud data management tool---MultCloud. This tool can not only help you easily merge all the pictures of two iCloud accounts, but also provide ultra-fast speed and user-friendly operation mode.
In addition, you can also use other functions provided by MultCloud (such as Team Transfer, Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, Remote Upload, and Share) to complete data sync or backup operations between other cloud accounts. For example, you can sync Google Photos to iCloud in real-time.