I’m sure that most users – like me – never discover this feature because it’s so well hidden.Ĭheck out my photo website, follow me on Instagram, and subscribe to PhotoActive, a podcast about photograph and the Apple ecosystem. The public album option should be visible when you set up a shared album there should be a checkbox under the field where you add users. Open Photos Select iCloud Photo Sharing from the Share menu Create New Shared Album Name the Shared Album Shared Album In Sidebar under Shared Click the. It’s surprising that Apple thinks that this is a good user experience. During the WWDC 2022, Apple announced a new iCloud Shared Photo Library feature with iOS 16 and the other operating systems. Here’s a link to the album I’ve set up for this article. You can click it to view it, and if you right-click the link, you can choose Copy Link to send it to others. In a couple of seconds, Photos will display a link with the URL of the album. Next, select the shared album, click the People button in the toolbar, and check Public Website. Click New Shared Album, enter a name for the album, then click Create. Because your shared albums are stored in the cloud, changes you make on one devicelike adding a new photo, deleting a video, or adding a commentautomatically appear on all your devices.
You can see them on any device set up for Shared Albums, including your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple TV, and Windows computer. In Photos app, scroll down to Shared Albums, tap See All, and tap Edit (Image credit: iMore) Tap Add button in the upper left corner. From the albums tab, scroll down to Shared Albums and tap See All. When you’ve done that, click the Share button, and choose iCloud Photo Sharing. When you set up Shared Albums in iCloud, you can create shared photo and video albums and view albums that are shared with you. Launch the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad. One person pointed out that it was possible, and showed me where the feature was it’s not easy to find. I had wondered why you couldn’t create a public album, and I mentioned it on Twitter a few days ago. In 2012, Apple added photo sharing features to iCloud, which are essentially what we have today as shared albums. Mac and MobileMe, it was dead simple to make photo galleries to show off your pictures on the web. Select a series of photos and tap Next at the top right for the app to automatically create a photo. But the ability to create public albums or galleries is MIA, almost.īack in the day, with. Launch the Google Photos app by long-pressing its icon to access the Make Shared Album Option. You can also create albums that you share with friends and families. I am running macOS 10.12.5 and Photos Version 2.0 (3150.4.120).Apple Photos, and iCloud Photo Library, make it easy to store and sync photos across devices. And even if you update some metadata, those changes do not flow through to how others see the photo in the Shared Album. It seems as if once photos are in the Shared Album they can not be edited, such as cropping, except in the "main" library. But this doesn't flow through in the photo as seen by those that I have shared the album with. I can see the pin in top left hand corner indicating the photo has GPS data. I did manage to add GPS data to several photos (they were scans originally) from within the Shared Album.
Metadata updates seem to work differently. However the photos in the Shared Album isn't updated, but the one in my 'All Photos' album is. I do this, make the changes/edits, press Done. When I go to edit the photo from the Shared Album, Photos tells me that I "must switch to it in your library". For example, let's say I want to crop a photo already in a Shared Album. However I can't figure out how to update/edit, such as cropping, a photo in a Shared Album and have those updates/edits flow through to other family members. That means that if you’re capturing high resolution photos or 4K video, they’ll be compressed to save space. Google Photos provides unlimited storage for free accounts but limits photos to 16 megapixels and video to 1080p. I have created a shared album and invited other family members to it, and so all good. This is somewhat secure except Google Photos doesn’t allow for password protection for shared albums. Can someone help explain exactly how editing/updating photos in shared albums works as I think I am missing something basic.
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