How to select all photos at once in laptop

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Photos User Guide
How do I select all pictures at once?
How do you select all on a laptop?
How do I select a group of pictures on my laptop?
How do I select multiple items on my laptop?

Photos User Guide

Welcome
Get started
- Overview of importing
- From iCloud Photos
- From a camera or phone
- From storage devices, DVDs, and more
- From Mail, Safari, and other apps
- Import photos from another library
- Where are the photos I imported?
- Browse your photos
- View individual photos
- Add titles, captions, and more
- Interact with text in a photo using Live Text
- Use Visual Look Up to learn about a photo
- View photos others have shared with you
- Delete photos or recover deleted ones
- Remove duplicates
- Hide photos from view
- View photo bursts
- Play video clips
- View Live Photos
- - View memories
  - Personalize memories
- Show specific types of items
- Find photos by text, content, or date
- Find photos by keyword
- Find photos of a person
- Find photos by location
- What are albums?
- Organize photos in albums
- Delete albums
- Create Smart Albums
- Group albums in folders
- Editing basics
- Crop and straighten photos
- Use a filter to change a photo
- - Adjust a photo’s light, exposure, and more
  - Retouch photos
  - Remove red-eye
  - Adjust a photo’s white balance
  - Apply curves adjustments
  - Apply levels adjustments
  - Adjust definition
  - Apply changes to specific colors
  - Reduce noise
  - Sharpen a photo
  - Change the lighting of a Portrait mode photo
  - Apply a vignette
- Write or draw on a photo
- Use other apps when editing in Photos
- Change a Live Photo
- Change a video
- Edit a Cinematic mode video
- - What is iCloud Shared Photo Library?
  - Create or join a Shared Library
  - View a Shared Library
  - Add photos to a Shared Library
  - Remove photos from a Shared Library
  - Add or remove Shared Library participants
- - What are shared albums?
  - Turn on Shared Albums
  - Create a shared album
  - Add, remove, and edit photos in a shared album
  - Add or remove subscribers
  - Subscribe to shared albums
- Use Messages and Mail to share photos
- Use AirDrop to share photos
- Share photos using other apps and websites
- Export photos, videos, slideshows, and memories
- Export a Live Photo as an animated GIF
- Export a video frame as a photo
- Create slideshows
- Create projects using third-party apps
- Order professional prints
- Print your own photos
- System Photo Library overview
- Create additional libraries
- Back up the Photos library
- Restore from Time Machine
- Repair the library
- Change where photos and videos are stored
Change Photos settings
Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
Copyright

You can select and deselect photos in a variety of ways.

Open Photos for me

Select a single photo: Click the photo, or press the arrow keys to quickly navigate to and select the photo.
Select a group of adjacent photos in a day: Click the first photo, then hold down the Shift key while you click the last photo. You can also hold down Shift and press the arrow keys, or simply drag to enclose the photos within the selection rectangle.
Select photos in a day that are not adjacent to each other: Hold down the Command key as you click each photo.
Deselect specific photos: Hold down the Command key and click the photos you want to deselect.
Deselect all photos: Click an empty space in the window (not a photo).

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How do I select all pictures at once?

Hold the Shift key and hover with the mouse over a thumbnail. When the thumbnails turn blue you can click. Now all pictures from the first to the last picture are selected.

How do you select all on a laptop?

Press Ctrl+A on your keyboard to select all text in the document.

How do I select a group of pictures on my laptop?

Group shapes, pictures, or other objects Press and hold Ctrl while you click the shapes, pictures, or other objects to group. Tip: For help selecting a shape or picture, see Select a shape or other object.

How do I select multiple items on my laptop?

Press and hold CTRL. Select the next item that you want. Important Be sure to press and hold CTRL while you select the next item that you want to include in the selection.