[blue_cadet_3]

You can setup iCloud on a PC to download content to it to keep a physical backup in your possession. I do that and also have it sync to OneDrive so its 3 backups of my photos.

[PhantomGremlin]

How, exactly, do you force content to download from iCloud?

Isn't it "lazy", in the sense that you must attempt to access on the local computer before it downloads?

[sjg007]

There's an icloud photo downloader on github. It works well. Apple also has a service to export to Google photos I think...