Played around with this for a while and ended up with tonnes of duplicates. Even in a small batch of 20 photos, if I select 20 photos and press “share” it will come up with “Save 6 Images” despite the fact I have 20 selected.

Except I can’t copy them to photos, only to files, where I have to save them from there. So I saved the photos to a USB stick so that I could simply copy them to my iPad.If I actually try to get the photos from iCloud advice and save them to my iPad so that they automatically update (though surely this double handling can’t be required), I can’t, because there’s just too many to save.Surely nobody would overlook this basic functionality so I must be missing something? I copied the photos to iCloud Drive where miraculously they all uploaded fine! Yay! But even now they’re on Apples servers, I cannot simply copy them to photos!! I tried in the browser and in files on the iPad as well as looked for an import option in photos.

The worse part is it added hundreds of duplicates every time I tried. I reformatted the computer, reinstalled iCloud etc and same problem. The iCloud app would get stuck at “waiting for xxx files to upload” and it stayed there for WEEKS (I have been at this for about 2 months now). If I copied the files to iCloud photos, only 1000-2000 would upload despite 6000 photos being in the folder. The iCloud for Windows app is EXTREMELY buggy.

I downloaded the photos from Dropbox and copied them over to iCloud photos on windows.

I am using a Windows 10/11 PC, an iPad Pro 11” latest and iPhone XS Max. I was prepping to move to Mac, but I’m not going to now how I see how buggy some of the software is, I am seeking the best way to get these photos onto iCloud photos. I have approximately 30GB of photos I want to transfer from Dropbox to iCloud Photos, and the experience so far has been absolutely abysmal.

Idrive photos app