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iPhone When will be able to share all photos with setting up a Shared album
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Okay, I genuinely have absolutely no idea what you’re going on about. Just humour me, will you please elaborate…
Did you ever opened the Photos app? You dan share photos with Airdrop, Messages, Mail, and so on. Also, you can create a shared photo album. I'm not sure what you mean when you are saying, you can't share photos?
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Hard agree.
Photos and Contacts are the two biggest failures of "Family iCloud."
I use Dropbox instead, OP. Set the same account up on my wife's phone and my phone and our iMac. On the phone app you can set it to auto-upload photos and so we have a merged folder to see everything.
Every other month or so I take the photos from Dropbox in the Mac and move them into my photo library on the Mac and erase them from Dropbox so it doesn't fill up. So there's not a super-long history on our phone, but it's better than nothing.
So it's not a perfect solution, I admit, but it's a better one than sharing an Apple ID which is just miserable these days. You really should try and get out of that.
He means you can't merge your photo libraries. All you can do is "share" which means manually selecting which photos you want to send each other.
I, like the OP, like having a unified 'family library' which is something Apple does not offer.
Photos and Contacts are the two biggest failures of "Family iCloud."
I use Dropbox instead, OP. Set the same account up on my wife's phone and my phone and our iMac. On the phone app you can set it to auto-upload photos and so we have a merged folder to see everything.
Every other month or so I take the photos from Dropbox in the Mac and move them into my photo library on the Mac and erase them from Dropbox so it doesn't fill up. So there's not a super-long history on our phone, but it's better than nothing.
So it's not a perfect solution, I admit, but it's a better one than sharing an Apple ID which is just miserable these days. You really should try and get out of that.
He means you can't merge your photo libraries. All you can do is "share" which means manually selecting which photos you want to send each other.
I, like the OP, like having a unified 'family library' which is something Apple does not offer.
So you want all photos you or anyone adds to their library, be automatically shared with everyone, no matter what the photo is?
I don’t get why you go to that much work... it’s pretty simple to select an entire day and add them to the share item. Every time you bring things in and out of different place they get compressed...
I can select 10 days and add it to a family shared album in about 10 seconds. And then it’s just there.
Using drop box... are you pulling photos out then putting them back in and not using photo library at all? That sounds so tedious...
I think unnecessary comes to mind. The ability to share items across multiple people is obviously achievable. So though the process is very easy...it is unnecessary. Non technical people won't to minimize steps to achieve a desired result, especially when most other things are set up to be a seamless part of our days.
But, yes, you are correct it is not a complicated thing.
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Shared iCloud Photo Library
I’ve written about this multiple times in the past, and I am going to keep writing about it until Apple builds a solution. If you want to share your iCloud Photos with a family member now, you have to use a variety of methods to do this like AirDrop, iMessage, or a Shared Album. The problem with these methods is they are manual, and you are likely to forget to keep the master library up to date. One spouse will have the “master library” on their device, while the other won’t. There are a variety of ways for Apple to address this, but a simple way would be able to let me shared my library with my wife, and she can browse it from her device and save anything she wants (and vice versa).
9 to 5 Mac:
But, yes, you are correct it is not a complicated thing.
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Shared iCloud Photo Library
I’ve written about this multiple times in the past, and I am going to keep writing about it until Apple builds a solution. If you want to share your iCloud Photos with a family member now, you have to use a variety of methods to do this like AirDrop, iMessage, or a Shared Album. The problem with these methods is they are manual, and you are likely to forget to keep the master library up to date. One spouse will have the “master library” on their device, while the other won’t. There are a variety of ways for Apple to address this, but a simple way would be able to let me shared my library with my wife, and she can browse it from her device and save anything she wants (and vice versa).
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Amongst the two adults, yes. I know what you're getting at which is why the children aren't included. I've occasionally had to kill a risqué photo or two between Dropbox and my Aperture library.
One of the better parts of the job, honestly.
My task is something I do on my computer about once every 6 weeks. That seems easier than a daily task on my phone. (Plus, your way would mean that my wife and I would both have to do that and this is the kind of task she finds tedious and is happy that I manage.)
I think you misunderstand. I use Dropbox more like Photostream, not iCloud photos. It's a one way trip from our phones to the Mac. This system gives us the confidence to erase old photos off our own phones whenever we want without worrying about losing the photos. They've been archived on the Mac ages ago so you can erase or keep whatever you want without worrying about it. If either of us wants to kill our vacation photos from 2017, sure, just do it. I've got them at home. It's a nice comfort.
Oh... yeah I want all photos with me. iCloud photos makes that simple...
I get it, it’d be nice if there was a setting that automatically shared all photos you take with any individual you chose that was in your family sharing. Same for contacts. And you’d both have to chose yes if you wanted both your libraries to share all photos. But then who now has control over what gets deleted? Thinking about it, I actually think the best way would be an option to have it automatically add photos to your family shared album. Maybe even a simple pop up once a week asking you to confirm you still want to share all the photos since the last time...
I get it, it’d be nice if there was a setting that automatically shared all photos you take with any individual you chose that was in your family sharing. Same for contacts. And you’d both have to chose yes if you wanted both your libraries to share all photos. But then who now has control over what gets deleted? Thinking about it, I actually think the best way would be an option to have it automatically add photos to your family shared album. Maybe even a simple pop up once a week asking you to confirm you still want to share all the photos since the last time...
I use Google photos because of this. My wife and I share a Google ID (or whatever it's called) and any photo taken by either of us is immediately uploaded. It's simple and there's no chance of forgetting to copy photos; it just works in the way you'd expect it to and Apple needs to do something similar.
Also, there's a 5000 photo limit on iCloud shared albums.
Also, there's a 5000 photo limit on iCloud shared albums.
Lightroom (Cloud version) is another solution to this problem but not free.
I know exactly what the OP wants and my wife and I had exactly that when we used the same Apple ID. When she got an Apple Watch we had to move to separate Apple IDs to keep health data separate, but then we lost the joint Photos album. Tried various things and ended up with Lightroom Cloudy which works in a similar way to iCloud Photos but is accessible to anyone signed in to the same Adobe ID instead of Apple ID. It works very well, but costs £10pm. I was able to offset this partly by reducing my Apple Cloud storage band.
Note that photos shared by Apple sharing options are reduced resolution, so not a good way of transferring my wife's photos to me to go into our main photos library.
I know exactly what the OP wants and my wife and I had exactly that when we used the same Apple ID. When she got an Apple Watch we had to move to separate Apple IDs to keep health data separate, but then we lost the joint Photos album. Tried various things and ended up with Lightroom Cloudy which works in a similar way to iCloud Photos but is accessible to anyone signed in to the same Adobe ID instead of Apple ID. It works very well, but costs £10pm. I was able to offset this partly by reducing my Apple Cloud storage band.
Note that photos shared by Apple sharing options are reduced resolution, so not a good way of transferring my wife's photos to me to go into our main photos library.
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What about photo stream? if you enable it? Does that work with FS?
Since it sounds something that should work with FS and be useful (why not?) Apple will not do it
Since it sounds something that should work with FS and be useful (why not?) Apple will not do it
