iCloud Shared iCloud Photo Library to Reduce iCloud Storage

[rillrill]

Hey folks,

I have a question that I cannot find a direct answer to. If my wife and I set up a shared photo library, would this theoretically reduce your iCloud storage of photos? I would be able to delete redundant photos of our kids at the same event, etc...?

My wife has the tendency to screenshot everything and never delete it. Conversely, I have always religiously tried to delete bad photos etc...Obviously, I wouldn't be tactlessly deleting everything off of her iCloud, but would this help in reducing our iCloud storage?

Anyone have experience with Shared Photo Library? Thanks in advanced.

 

[krezimax1975]

shared albums do not take up space in the cloud. I usually put things in there that I don't need.

 

[lemieuxfan67]

Hey folks,

I have a question that I cannot find a direct answer to. If my wife and I set up a shared photo library, would this theoretically reduce your iCloud storage of photos? I would be able to delete redundant photos of our kids at the same event, etc...?

My wife has the tendency to screenshot everything and never delete it. Conversely, I have always religiously tried to delete bad photos etc...Obviously, I wouldn't be tactlessly deleting everything off of her iCloud, but would this help in reducing our iCloud storage?

Anyone have experience with Shared Photo Library? Thanks in advanced.

It would only reduce iCloud storage if there are currently duplicate photos stored on both your and your wife's iCloud Photo Library. Any photos in the Share Photo Library will only count towards the owner's iCloud storage limit.

In my situation, I created the Shared Photo Library under my account, then invited my wife. We moved almost all of our photos from our individual photo libraries to the shared photos library. We have set up, by default, that all pictures taken with the iPhone camera will go to Shared Photo Library. In the rare case we don't want a taken picture to go to the shared library, we can turn off temporarily in the camera app when taking a picture. Also, screenshots by default are saved to the personal photo library. Then can be moved to the shared library manually after the fact.

Amazingly, I've yet to have any problems with this implementation!

 

[rillrill]

Ok. I will have to play with the screenshots idea there. That’s one annoyance. The other is her taking random pictures of things for reference.