How to download all photos from Procare. Every photo, one click.

The problem

Procare Connect is where your daycare posts the daily photos: the first drop-off, the finger painting, the nap-drunk grin after lunch. But the parent app is built for looking, not keeping. Photos live inside a scrolling activity feed, mixed in with diaper changes and meal notes. There is no “export all” button, no album download, no way to ask for a copy of everything.

And the feed isn’t permanent, at least not for you. When your child graduates or moves to another center, the center deactivates your parent account. Your login stops working and every photo in that feed is gone from your view. Most parents find this out the week after the last day.

The manual way

You can save Procare photos by hand, one at a time. Open the Procare app on your phone, scroll the feed to a photo, tap it to open it full-screen, tap the share or save icon, and confirm. Then scroll to the next one. Videos work the same way, and they take longer to save.

For a handful of favorites, that’s fine. For an enrollment, it isn’t. A child who has been at daycare for two years typically has 1,000 to 3,000 photos in their feed. At roughly fifteen seconds each, that’s an entire weekend of tapping, and the feed keeps loading older posts in small batches as you scroll, so it gets slower the further back you go. You also lose the date: a photo saved from the app is named by whatever your phone calls it, not by the day it was taken. Most parents get a few dozen in and give up.

The one-tap way

Daycare Photo Download is an iPhone app, and a Chrome version for your computer, that does the manual process for you: it walks your feed, finds every photo and video, and saves the full-resolution originals. Three steps.

1. 1

   Get the app

   On iPhone, get it from the App Store. On a computer, add it to Chrome. Sign in with your purchase email, and that is the only thing you ever enter.

2. 2

   Log in to Procare like normal

   Sign in on Procare’s own login page, inside the app or in Chrome, the same way you always do. No new account, no new password.

3. 3

   Pick your child

   Every child on your parent account is listed. Pick one and the backup starts. A few minutes later, every full-resolution photo and video, each named by the date it was posted, is in your camera roll on iPhone or in a folder on your computer.

Run it again next month and it only fetches what’s new. The app keeps a local record of which photos you already have, so a re-run at the end of the year takes seconds, not minutes. That’s the whole workflow for how to bulk download Procare photos: log in, tap, done.

On iPhone, there’s a bonus. The app also finds the dates in your teacher’s notes, picture day, closures, spirit week, and adds them to your calendar with one tap. Nothing is added until you tap.

What happens to your password and photos

This is your kid’s photos, so it’s worth being precise about where things go.

• Your password goes to Procare, never to us. You log in on Procare’s own page. The app never sees the password and has nowhere to send it.
• Photos go directly to your device. They travel from Procare to your camera roll or your computer. We never see your photos; there is nothing of ours in the loop at all.
• No account with us. No sign-up, no cloud, no copy of your photos anywhere but your own machine.

The full details are on the privacy page, and it’s a short read because there isn’t much to disclose.