View your photos and videos on iCloud.com

You can view photos, videos, and memories stored in iCloud Photos using a web browser.

View your photos and videos

Go to icloud.com/photos, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
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 .
- 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 between viewing your personal library, shared library, or both. 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.

Go to icloud.com/photos, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Double-click the thumbnail of a photo, then click .
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 .

Change the shape of the photo and video thumbnails

You can view the thumbnails of your photos and videos as squares (which eliminates the empty space between them) or in their original aspect ratio (which shows the entire image).

Go to icloud.com/photos, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Do one of the following:
- View your images as squares: Click .
- View your images in their original aspect ratio: Click .

View your memories

The Photos app recognizes significant people, places, and events in your library, and presents them in curated collections called Memories.

Go to icloud.com/photos, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Click Memories in the sidebar.
If you don’t see the sidebar, click .
At the top, choose Memories or Favorite Memories.
Note: If you don’t see any memories, try opening them on your device first. SeeWatch memories in Photos in the iPhone User Guide.
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 .
- 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.