iPad Merge two iCloud photo libraries

[Torquemada]

Hello, I had on iPad which I set up with my work email address as the Apple ID, as it was a work supplied one. This has about 10,000 photos on it, which are all backed up to iCloud.

I have just got a new personal iPad which I set up with my personal Apple ID as it's my own iPad.

I would like to get the old photos onto my new iPad, but it seems a bit difficult with the two IDs. I've tried iCloud Photo sharing, but it seems a bit labarious.

Does anyway have any easy suggestion to do this. Thanks.

 

[KrisLord]

Do you have a Mac or PC you could use? Download the images then sign into the other account and upload them?

 

[Torquemada]

Thanks for the reply. I do have a Mac as well, which uses my personal account. I tried logging onto iCloud in Safari with my old account, and can see the photos, but I couldn't see an easy way to do select all, and download all of them, unless I'm missing something. I suppose I could back the photos up using iTunes on a different machine, and do it that way, but I seem to remember older versions of Photos didn't let you sync with other devices and the cloud once you used folders on the machine, not sure if that still happens, it's been a while since I have done it.

 

[Banglazed]

Exporting and Importing existing to a main photo library may cause you to lose some metadata along the way. There is no easy way to do this but this software may help.

https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/powerphotos/