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Do you have a Shared Albums enabled in Settings > Photos?
 
This works just by sharing photos directly from Messages. Sent some yesterday and it says “Sent via iCloud” underneath. The receiver is on iOS11 and they just see a link to a zip on iCloud.com which can be downloaded in Files and opened. When I tap on it in iOS 12 I get a nice popup, which I’m hoping is the experience another iOS 12 user would get when receiving. Not sure though.

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This works just by sharing photos directly from Messages. Sent some yesterday and it says “Sent via iCloud” underneath. The receiver is on iOS11 and they just see a link to a zip on iCloud.com which can be downloaded in Files and opened. When I tap on it in iOS 12 I get a nice popup, which I’m hoping is the experience another iOS 12 user would get when receiving. Not sure though.

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Thought they were referring to this new feature and the question was about why this option wasn’t available.
 

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This isn’t working for me. At least I do not think it is. It sends an album but when I click on it it says “uploading x photos” and never finishes. My contacts I’m trying to test it on have iOS 11 and haven’t responded...
 
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