How To Use the New iCloud Shared Photo Library

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macmost.com/e-2827 You can now have a shared photo library between you and other members of your family. Each person can edit and manage the photos in the library and you can view photos in it alongside photos in your own personal library.
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00:00 Intro
00:28 Understanding iCloud Shared Photos Library
01:45 Requirements
02:05 Switching It On
04:33 How To Use
07:32 Deletions
08:52 iPhone Camera App
10:35 Things To Note
11:38 Easy To Try Out
12:09 Ways To Use It
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@marioh.4361 2 месяца назад

It's great video, and thank you for not dragging this out to be an hour long. straight to the point

@RhondaPeters 2 месяца назад

I agree!

@EmmiUmar Год назад

Thank you so comprehensive yet succinct, which is rare! Very good to have a look at all the dets and implications before signing up or trialling. 😊

@IRVremy Год назад

Gary you are amazing! I had to rewatch this video to gain an understanding of that this new feature is about. Especially in the area of Shared albums vs Shared Library

@voyagerman22 10 месяцев назад

Informative video, thank you. Have seen this shared feature mentioned many times, but nobody has ever given a detailed explanation of the feature with examples. Thanks, again.

@loisskiathitis8926 Год назад

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Great topic! Thank you, Gary! 👏❤️

@jimalix6270 Год назад

Super-useful video, Gary, as always! I've been hesitant to try this feature, but your comments about trying it and possibly backing out if it turns out not to be what you want gave me the oomph to go ahead and try. Thanks!

@Sergesouszero Год назад

This can also be usefull for teams, let's say pro photographers or something like that. As usual, very clear and very informative video. Thanks... Mark! 🙂

@zrohit Год назад

Great Video: Question - How do you make folders in the Shared Album and is there a way to share/move a whole folder over? Thanks

@stewartking6941 Год назад

Thanks Gary, just what I was looking for.....great video!

@lenmueller9702 Год назад

Another superb video Gary. I have since migrated to iCloud Photo Library and Shared Library. It is so nice not having to manually sync! The migration/upload took me 7 days 24 hours a day (running Amphetamine) to keep my Mac from sleeping.

@macmost Год назад

There shouldn't be a need to keep your Mac from sleeping. It will do this in the background. In fact, it may have been slower because you kept it from sleeping that way so it may have uploaded at a slower pace thinking you were using your Mac and it didn't want to use all the resources.

@TechnologyRescue 6 дней назад

Very useful video. Thank you!

@sohrobby Год назад

Great content as always. Would love to see a piece discussing how shared access to an Apple One plan works.

@RhondaPeters 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much! this was exactly what I needed!!

@akosGTA 2 месяца назад

Thank you Gary for your continued great work!

@sundukchi 6 месяцев назад

Hi Gary.. i love your videos. Thank you so much for excellent presentation!

@mariaprice90 4 месяца назад

So helpful, as usual. Thank you!

@Philipk65 Год назад

Really informative video, thanks Gary.

@bye-bye-dentist Год назад

Thanks for explaining details.

@ronchan8843 Год назад

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing 👍

@hookerrabbit Год назад

Great explanation of a potentially head spinning new feature.

@isabeltorres8717 Год назад

Great explanation

@Cathie1220 Месяц назад

Thanks so much. We were having a lot of questions that you answered.

@briantdaniel9280 Год назад

Fantastic! This is finally here. Hopefully, in a future update, Apple will make it so you can share within a certain amount of time like hours, days, or weeks. So if you are on vacation, for example, you can set it to auto-share in that time frame. Sort of how you can share your location for an amount of time.

@davidrussell6826 7 месяцев назад

Excellent! You talk faster than I can think but, fortunately, I can rewind. LOL.

@kevinleighuk Год назад

Very helpful. I hadn't realised that sharing Photo albums had got so sophisticated. My wife wants access to the photos I have taken for last 25 years since I first started using a digital camera. But she doesn't want to see every one of the 80K I have organised in Photos. With this I should be able to select the albums in which she's interested and not the 1000s of other photos from my hobbies and interests.

@macmost Год назад

Yes. You could also share all of them, and she can switch between her Personal library to just see hers, and "Both" to see yours and hers.

@Greg-fg1rd Год назад

Pheeeew! Good one. If you see your views double by tonight, it's just me. Good video!

@illia_zahnitko Год назад

Awesome, Gary! Another great video! Now waiting for the spouse to share the library with 🤭

@gdariusz Месяц назад

Great job !!!

@osibosi99 Год назад

You are such a apple nerd, thank you kind sir ;)

@davidhillyer3911 Год назад

Thank you Gary. As ever, you've described a new and rather complex feature brilliantly. However, it leaves me a bit frustrated - my MacBook Pro purchased 2017(2016 model) will not take Ventura. My iPhone and iPad are newer and run 16.2. And my friends with Mac - most of them, probably not using Ventura. For my own situation, I'm hovering on buying a new MacBook, but the market, doesn't seem quite ready for me to take the step at this point. This is the first time since converting from Windows to Mac since 2017, that I'm feeling a bit downhearted about Apple.

@WoodworkingDaddy Год назад

Thanks!

@landon.cunningham Год назад

Thanks - lots of great info here. One thing I don't think is covered is what about what happens to your shared albums once you join a shared library? Or - are you shared albums different depending on which library you are viewing? Beyond that - if I create a shared album with pictures from a shared library that I did not take (but I can see) - and I share the album with someone not in the shared library - will that person be able to see the photos?

@macmost Год назад

Shared albums are a completely different feature. Nothing changes with them. Creating a shared album shouldn't be any different either. Try it and see.

@desertpatient Год назад

Thanks bunched

@lenmueller9702 Год назад

Gary this video blew me away! I am still old school and that I have all my photos & videos reside on my Mac hard drive mostly because I am afraid of losing control. I don’t want to have the worry of losing my nice album organization and the thought of my wife accidentally deleting photos. Do I have anything to worry about?

@SoNowWhat Год назад

Great explanation. Do you know if this new shared library has the same limitations as the old version (maximum number of photos, videos only in 720p quality)?

@macmost Год назад

No. Not at all. This is a share LIBRARY. These are the full resolution files.

@bobbertels959 Год назад

Another awesome video on a badly needed function. No doubt majority of people will be in same boat as me and want to share everything with a spouse. Perhaps you can do a more granular, future video on this? Also, is there a way to automatically move any shared photos to a personal library so they are kept locally with a main library?? Thanks much, Gary!!!

@macmost Год назад

If you have Optimize turned off, that is for both your personal library and your shared library. Photos from both will always be local. So no need to have two copies of photos.

@thesisko3715 Год назад

Gary, do you know if the photos from Shared Library take up storage space on your local device if you have ‘Download Originals’ turned on? I feel like this feature could eat up your local device storage pretty quickly if you have a smaller drive.

@macmost Год назад

Yes. If you have Download Originals, then all of your photos will be local as well as on iCloud. If you have a smaller drive, use the Optimize option instead.

@ssential Год назад

Great video! I was waiting a while before proceeding. My husband is soooo excited! We had had a separate photos library for his childhood photos, but it wasn’t a system library. We now put it on his account on our MacBook and it’s now his personal library. As the photos library curator, I turned on shared library and now my husband has his childhood photos syncing to his phone AND our shared library. We are thrilled to finally have this work after about 10 years of wanting this capability!! One question : how does it work for people? For the people library? Because he has people in his personal library, that I also have listed in the main shared library, and some of the people spend both libraries, but in order to see the people, you have to be viewing both libraries… How does this work and will we be able to reconcile when people are the same?

@macmost Год назад

Not sure. I think People is something that is different for each account. Compare and see.

@jsac3939 Год назад

Thanks for sharing! I have one question. If my spouse and I merge both of our personal libraries into a shared one, will this cut down on the storage we both are using in the iCloud?

@macmost Год назад

If you have duplicates, and then delete those duplicates, then I suppose it could.

@meerkattrails5315 Год назад

Dear Gary, thank you for the upload of this detailed and informative description of using the Shared Photo Library. On our recent world trip I have created an individual album of the country we visited. Now I want to share these albums with my wife via Photo Library. Unfortunately it just shows all of the photos and videos on her phone and not the different albums. Is there a way she can see those photos within the albums or does she have to create those albums again on her iPhone? Thank you for your feedback.

@macmost Год назад

She has to create her own albums. The photos are shared, but the organizational structure is individual.

@lizn9324 Год назад

@macmostvideo I really appreciate your detail instructions. I am having a problem viewing Shared Album on iCloud.I have multiple shared albums on my phone but it's not in my iCloud. Is this not possible? Would you mind doing a video on this?

@macmost Год назад

Not sure what you are experiencing. By "in my iCloud" do you mean on an other device in Photos? Make sure you have turned on shared albums there. Note that Shared Albums are a very different feature than Shared Library which is what this video is about.

@beethechange. Год назад

Hi Gary, here's something you didn't mention on your video and no one asked below. So I finally setup a Shared Library with my husband (family plan). Then I noticed that some of the photos that I added to the Shared Library, that were my hearted/Favorites, now also show as Favorites on his devices. Of course he can toggle Personal/Shared/Both around to view only his Favs, but kind of annoying that if either of us leaves it on "Both Libraries" all the time, we have to deal with each other's Favorites. I am really bummed by that. Now I might have to create an Album named Favorites on my Personal, just because of that... and totally ignore the Favs native section. Ugh!!! Comments?

@kobenbawest 10 месяцев назад

Agreed, at this point the feature seems like a half-baked ideal. I’ve had sharing library nightmares with friends. My camera was sharing photos randomly & automatically. I deactivated the feature & deleted the library, but others could still view my photos. I want nothing to do with this lousy feature. Not to mention it is a huge potential security risk for those who work with sensitive docs.

@astravelercom Год назад

Can you create two separate shared libraries? For example one with colleagues and one with family?

@macmost Год назад

No. You can only belong to one.

@generic_official Год назад

Apparently, iPhone photo syncing (My Photo Stream) is coming to an end in July 2023. I hope you plan a video about what this means and how we should prepare. Thanks for your consideration.

@macmost Год назад

Photo Stream is just an old way to do a type of syncing (last 30 days of photos up to 1000). Are you using Photo Stream in 2023? Probably not. The current ways to do syncing, using iCloud Photos, is completely different. iCloud Photos, iCloud Photos Sharing and iCloud Photos Share Libraries (what I talk about in this video) are what people use today.

@macmost Год назад

@@mlocascio656 Most likely you have those photos in iCloud Photos now. Just check and see.

@macmost Год назад

@@mlocascio656 On your new device are you using iCloud Photos? If so, do you see those photos there? If so, then you have them in iCloud Photos and there should be nothing more to do.

@JavisoGaming Год назад

Great video! Thanks. I still don’t get why iCloud Photos Library needs to be turned on. Mine is off as I don’t want my photos in iCloud. I prefer them locally.

@macmost Год назад

You'd need to be using iCloud to use iCloud. This is a feature of iCloud, so you can't do it without that.

@chucksorenson637 Год назад

If you share a library do shared albums also transfer or do they have to be reshared with your shared library partner?

@macmost Год назад

Share albums are separate things.

@jenreid61 Год назад

Hi Gary, heard about this and was so excited! My husband and I right away upgraded our iPhones, iPads and our Macs to prep for it. Quite disappointed after reviewing how to and then creating the Shared Library found we couldn't share the organization of photos in Albums and Folders, could only share the Library!?? So for me to share my 11,000 organized pictures he will have to reorganize them all himself?.. In talking about this we're wondering if we're the only people that very much want the ability to share not just the pictures but also the way they're organized? Any thoughts?

@macmost Год назад

How about using keywords though? Select all of the photos in an album, assign a keyword to them all (same name as the album if you like). Then you can both view them by keyword instead of by album. Or, she can easily recreate the album using those keywords.

@jenreid61 Год назад

@@macmost Thx Gary, we tested setting up the pics with keywords and then share and found it does help, unfortunately that can only be done on the Macs, not on the iPhones/iPads.. Will be a lot of work to share and organize them all. Still find it unfortunate we can't just share the sorted Folders and Albums, would make it so much easier. Are we the only ones that seem to want that?

@Maagma007 Год назад

@@jenreid61my wife and I are in the same situation. I would also like to share photo org such as folders and albums. Without this feature, it’s a non-starter for us. I hope apple is listening.

@stsxt05 Год назад

I had this same problem but found a way round it by adding keywords to each photo this can be done on mass for each album and the remote viewer can search by keyword to find the pictures required , for me I used the album title for each keyword and it works great

@meerkattrails5315 Год назад

@@jenreid61 Yes, same for my wife and me. Keyword option for editing and viewing only possible on Mac. My wife does not have a mac. Therefore it would be awesome if they could include in a future update that one can share a whole album/folder.

@garycard1826 Месяц назад

😊Gary, You're a master at teaching this MAC stuff! Is this video still correct for the latest updates iOS 17.4.1 and Mac OS Sonoma 14.4.1 and Photos ver 9.0?

@macmost Месяц назад

Yes.

@alexanderu4208 Год назад

Hi Gary , I am new to mac and i wonder how can I take few audio files and play them one after the other (Like play all in windows) Many thanks 🙏

@macmost Год назад

Do you mean in the Photos app, like in a slideshow? Or are you asking about something not involving Photos? If you mean just the files, then you can take them into the Music app and play them there. Or get another third-party audio player like VLC.

@alexanderu4208 Год назад

@@macmost thank you 🙏 yes I meant playing music tracks

@mikosprunck789 Год назад

Hi - I enjoyed your shared library video. Is it possible to take a project slide show created in 'My Projects' on my Mac (Ventura) and copy into a new shared album in Photos? I would like to show these on Apple TV or other devices and I don't know how to view a Project slide show unless it's in a shared photo album.

@macmost Год назад

I don't think so. Just create the shared album instead of a Project slideshow. But once you have a Project, you can't do it from that end, you just have to add the same photos. Maybe next time create the Shared Album first, then you can create the Project from the photos in there instead of the other way around. Or, just not use Project slideshows at all. You could always export the Project slideshow as a video and keep that video in your library to show on Apple TV.

@dpose6525 Год назад

I wish the selection for shared or personal library could have a default. Every time I open Photos, it seems I have the wrong one selected...

@user-eq9qg1zy3i 5 месяцев назад

Great information, as always. Question: I have thousands of Photos/Videos on another Photos library stored on a RAID system. I would like to move these to an icloud shared library without transferring to my System Photo library so I don’t overwhelm my MAC MINI Storage….is this possible?

@macmost 5 месяцев назад

So I assume you are using "Optimize" right? You can upload them in groups and let your library offload them before the next group. Or, you can upload via the iCloud web site to go directly from the external drive to iCloud, then let the system library work as normal with "optimize."

@normdorosh Год назад

Hi Gary.. i love your videos.. today i was trying to view two photos at the same time side by side in the photos app and didn't see a way to do it..i know you can do it in preview mode...but is there a way to compare to photos side by side in the photos app? thanks. Norm

@macmost Год назад

You can put those photos into an album and then view the album and enlarge the viewing size. Is there something you are trying to DO by viewing them next to each other? Maybe if I know why you wanted to do ti, I could suggest something.

@normdorosh Год назад

@@macmost thanks Gary... i am trying to put the photos side by side to compare the before and after comparisons after using photo ai from topaz..just wanted to see the vast difference between the two...Norm

@macmost Год назад

@@normdorosh Ah, I see. Have you tried flipping between them? So view the first one, then right arrow to go to the next, left to go back. Left and right back and forth. But I suppose some people (me) prefer flipping between photos, and other prefer seeing them side-by-side.

@normdorosh Год назад

thanks Gary... i think i will just put both in photoshop together...but thanks so much for your help

@walterreil4001 3 месяца назад

Great video! Many thanks for covering what can be a very challenging and confusing subject for people. Not sure I fully understand everything yet. I have a Mac with an Apple Photos Library. Is it possible for me to share my entire Photos Library with other family members (who live in other cities), but only as VIEW-ONLY, such that they cannot Add / Edit / or Delete photos. We don't have a Family iCloud account. My understanding is that the other family members must have their own Apple Account IDs for me to share my library. Thank you very much.

@macmost 3 месяца назад

No, that's not what this is for at all. This is for actual family members and you share the shared library.

@bjornbeeli6161 Год назад

Thanks for explanation. I have a question about Folder/Album structure in the Shared Photo Library. I configured the Shared Photo Library and move all my favorites photos to this library. All these photos are structured in folder/albums in my personal library. Now all these photos are just flat in the new library. I cannot find any possibility to structure these photos in the shared library. The only possibility is that all other family members define these structure in there own personal library. But that makes no sense. Do I miss something?

@macmost Год назад

Right. Albums are for you. So everything is in the library flat as before. You can arrange photos in your albums as you like, and other people can arrange them in their albums as they like.

@bjornbeeli6161 Год назад

@@macmost Is there a way to arrange the photos in the shared library - otherwise 5 people have to do the same thing again and again. Every time I create the new album like 'Holiday 2022' and publish the photos in the shared lib, all members have to create this album on there site. Not very useful. Is that a missing feature, or are there technical problems to solve that?

@macmost Год назад

@@bjornbeeli6161 Not sure which direction Apple will go on this. On the one had it would be useful for everyone to see those photos grouped into that album. But on the other hand, why should one user's album structure be forced on the other members of the shared library?

@baggetta Год назад

hey there, thanks for this amazing video - question: I follow this process to share my library with my wife, do I have to do it again from my wife's computer so she can add her photos to the pool? Will that automatically merge our two libraries, or will it create two siloed 'shared libraries'?

@macmost Год назад

Yes, she needs to accept the invitation. When she does, she needs to make the same decisions about what to move to the Shared library and what to just have in her Personal library. Then you will have ONE Shared library. That's the whole idea.

@baggetta Год назад

@@macmost I have literally been waiting for a feature like this since they launched iCloud, thanks for clarifying !!

@baggetta Год назад

@@macmost here's a million dollar question: is there any way to remove duplicates that span each library. if I have the exact same photo on my library that she has on hers, and I want to merge them, it doesn't seem possible. The Duplicates feature disappears when viewing "Shared Library'...any ideas how to work around that?

@macmost Год назад

@@baggetta Maybe something for the future? We just got Shared Library and Duplicate merging a few weeks ago after all.

@arick1404 9 месяцев назад

soo, can i have a few icloud sharing library? because i need to share library with a few spouse and i dont wanna to mix it all

@georgefoster5617 Год назад

I have a MacBook with Ventura and I want to share the photo library with my wife's iPad which has iOS16.3 but there is no icon to let me invite her iPad. What am I missing?

@tiffaniarostegui3419 2 месяца назад

How do you merge the duplicate photos added to shared library?

@macmost 2 месяца назад

Not sure. Look and see what is offered. It may different depending on who had the original.

@anthonydauer Год назад

Does it matter if we chose a phone number or an email to add people?

@macmost Год назад

As long as they are linked to the same Apple ID, it doesn't matter much. If someone has a device, say an iPad, set to only get messages from one or more email addresses, and not their phone number, then they may only get that message on their phone. Just use what you normally use to chat with them over Messages.

@ventilator98 Год назад

I have a video I sent from another iPhone to MY iPAD! It was a video I wanted to send in an iMessage, so I did, and It was like an eleven hour video. It's been uploading since yesterday morning! How do I see the percentage, or some progress bar? I mean I immediately deleted it from the other iPhone from another account, but I deleted the video from that iPhone and on MY iPad, It's been uploading since yesterday morning! PLEASE HELP!

@macmost Год назад

Sent in what way? I'm not sure what you are using (AirDrop?) but look for a cancel option. I can't see what you are seeing, so you'll need to poke around and look for a solution.

@Dave4D Год назад

I have yet to see anyone clarify this, so maybe you have some insight… is there just ONE shared library or can I have multiple? Say I want a shared library with my family and then a completely different set of people (friends) added to a different separate library? Is that possible or can you only create (or be part of) a single shared library at a time?

@macmost Год назад

Just one.

@pakoserrano6704 Год назад

You can create a Shared album with your friends for example one album called Party with your friends and another album called vacations with your family

@macmost Год назад

@@pakoserrano6704 That's just the normal Shared Album function that has been around for years. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rt2hKEs-ZZU.html

@MartinSchabbauer Год назад

Hallelujah 🎉

@brcrdsb Год назад

If it's possible to turn off syncing one album from photos? Not entire Photos.

@macmost Год назад

Using this new iCloud Shared Photo Library? You choose which photos you want to be in your personal library and which to be in your shared library.

@MrLukec1976 9 месяцев назад

Hi Gary, not sure what I’ve done. But I shared with my wife. Now I don’t have the photos at all but she does?

@macmost 9 месяцев назад

Hard for me to guess what you have done. Look carefully at your settings and hers. Look at the top of the Photos app and see what you have selected there too.

@k.antigonetrowbridge9038 Год назад

Is there a way to share all photos BUT screenshots? I use screenshots for reminders but I doubt anyone else would find them useful.

@macmost Год назад

I think that is the default when you choose to share all. I think screenshots are automatically not shared. Also, note you don't need to save screenshots to your Photos library. I assume you mean on your iPhone, right? Just tap the thumbnail after taking a screenshot, then tap the Share button and Save To Files instead. Create a folder to hold them if you like.

@w3rky 4 дня назад

Thank you for the detailed video! @macmostvideo I have a question, if my partner and I are sharing the same library, are we able to move the entire shared library into both of our personal libraries? It looks like it can only be done by one person, removing all of the photos for the other. Am I correct in saying this?

@macmost 4 дня назад

Not sure why you would want to do that. The whole idea of the Share Library is you see the photo just like it is in your library. What's your use case here? Give me an example.

@w3rky 3 дня назад

@@macmost yes I can give a couple of examples. 1) If my partner wants to copy the entire library so that she can delete and edit photos specific to her taste. 2) So that we can delete the current shared library and create a new shared library with different users, I believe I can only be part of one shared library at a time. The only workaround I have found is to export the entire shared library and import the photos back to my personal library.

@macmost 3 дня назад

@@w3rky For the first one, you can either just duplicate the photo, you would then have two copies of it taking up lots of space. Or, you can just not put that photo into your shared library at all, but instead send it to them (AirDrop). For the second one -- I strongly recommend not doing that. That's not what Shared Libraries are for. Dropping and connecting to Shared Libraries will probably cause a lot of problems. Use Shared Albums instead, if you want others to see your photos.

@w3rky День назад

@@macmost thanks, I appreciate your help.

@StEvieWeevee Год назад

If one wanted to merge the Photos library from separate iCloud accounts, is the method described at the 8:10 mark the best way? I have two iCloud accounts, one of which is no longer used and want to merge all of those files into the active iCloud account. From prior merging attempts years ago, many of the files in the old account are duplicated in the active account so I plan on using the new Duplicates feature to clean up the Library after the merge is complete. All told, there are about 30,000 files in each Library, with likely 15,000 or so that are duplicates. Luckily, I have foot surgery next week so I'll have plenty of time. Many thanks in advance!

@macmost Год назад

Sounds like you have a mess. I wouldn't use this feature to merge them, that is not what it is meant to do. I would export all the photos from the secondary library, then import them into the primary library.

@StEvieWeevee Год назад

@@macmostDefinitely a big hairball! Will the export retain all of the meta data, most importantly like the date the photo was taken? Seems like I tried that once a few years ago and the "date taken" was over-ridden by the import date.

@macmost Год назад

@@StEvieWeevee If you export "unmodified originals" then all of the metadata that is embedded in the photo (from the camera) is retained.

@kenchen821 Год назад

I never get any notification when photos are deleted neither my other family members. It's just so broken

@charlesv1606 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video. So I'm interested in Shared Library because when I use Shared Albums, it seems that Apple completely ruins the resolution of the photos that go into Shared Albums, whereas my understanding is that the Shared Library albums will maintain the original resolution/quality. However, what concerns me is that any participant of the shared library can modify/edit any of the photos that are present. I usually put a lot of time editing the photos I take with Adobe LR, and I wouldn't want somebody else to further make changes to the photos that I contribute (I don't mind if they can download my photos or add their own to the Shared Library). Is there a way to restrict other participants from editing/changing the photos that I contribute to the Shared Library?

@macmost 5 месяцев назад

A Shared Library should only be with your closest family members. Like spouses, for instance. It is for sharing a library, not for showing others your photos. Using a Shared Album to do that. Not sure what you mean by "completely ruins the resolution." The resolution should be the same, but it is up to the other person how they view it online in a browser.

@charlesv1606 4 месяца назад

@@macmost Thanks for your response. And yes I want to both show certain other people my photos and also allow them to download at full resolution. In Apple Photos what i've noticed is that after I've taken a photo on my camera (and after editing in Adobe LR), my jpeg photos are 10-20 MB in size (and they're always 6000x4000 resolution assuming I don't crop anything). These characteristics are maintained when I add these photos to my own personal Apple Photos albums. However, once I copy these same photos into a Shared Album, Apple reduces the resolution of these photos down to ~2305x1537 (and the new size is 1-2 MB). That's what I meant with reduction in resolution or quality by Apple when moving between a personal album into a shared album. Checking back between the original photo in my personal Apple album and the same photo in the Shared Album this change becomes evident through the "Get Info" option of each photo.

@macmost 4 месяца назад

@@charlesv1606 I don't use Lightroom so I may not be able to help you there. But sharing online typically does show the user a high-resolution jpg image, not the unmodified image you seem to be exporting from Lightroom. The difference is probably not too much to the eye though. I suppose if you are doing something like sharing source files with clients in a business you may want to use some other file sharing solution, not a consumer one like iCloud.

@torontostew Год назад

Quick Question. Let's say I add my dad to my shared library. Can i save one of his photos from the shared library to my personal library and if my dad leaves the shared library will the photo stay in my personal library or will it be removed from my personal library since my dad left the group?

@macmost Год назад

Yes, you should be able to. Plus, after the first 7 days I believe if your dad leaves the Shared Library, you get the option to keep the photos he contributed.

@torontostew Год назад

@@macmost awesome!!!

@landon.cunningham Год назад

What about with normal shared albums - if a subscriber that is not you adds to that album - is it linking from their library or does it get stored in yours?

@macmost Год назад

So Shared albums, not the Shared Library that I'm talking about in this video? With Shared albums you'd see it and of course you'd have to have a copy of it or you wouldn't be able to see it.

@landon.cunningham Год назад

@@macmost Yeah just regular shared albums - if I create one and someone else adds a picture to it - does that go against my storage and end up in my library?

@macmost Год назад

@@landon.cunningham Your iCloud server storage, or your local drive storage? Shared Albums don't count against your iCloud storage. See support.apple.com/en-us/HT202299

@landon.cunningham Год назад

@@macmost If you create a shared library - what happens to your system library? Do you know have 2 library files in the pictures folder - or is the shared library fully cloud based?

@macmost Год назад

@@landon.cunningham The Shared Library is part of your System Library. You just have one Library on your drive, but some of those images are "Personal" and some "Shared."

@RobertKeenanComp-U-Right Год назад

Did I hear correctly, do all favorite photos get shared?

@macmost Год назад

I don't think so. It is just that all shared photos marked as favorite appear in each users' Favorites album. Test and see.

@davidbishop7683 Год назад

How does the shared library handle duplicates?

@macmost Год назад

Just as you would expect. If there are duplicates, it shows them to you. Try it and see.

@davidbishop7683 Год назад

@@macmost thanks.

@panpan12123 Год назад

Hi I try make a shared library and add only photos with named family people only. When I add the names it takes all the photos lets say of the whole year 500 photos instead of adding the named photos which are only 100.... how I fix it?

@macmost Год назад

Just select the photos you don't want to include and set them to Personal Library. You can switch photos as you like manually so customize as you like.

@adaoko Год назад

Thanks for the explanation! Great video. I think it's a half-baked solution because only those who have an iDevice with iOS 16.1 can participate in a shared library, which means I can't share photos with someone on PC, Android, or older iPhone. Also, it's ridiculous to only allow 1 shared library. What if I want to share some photos with my friends and some with my family in original quality? It seems like I have to stick with Google Photos 😢

@macmost Год назад

Actually, someone can. They would just have to use the Photos web app at iCloud.com. But if the others want to use Google Photos then no, you can't share between iCloud Photos and Google Photos, obviously. They are two different systems by two different companies.

@RogerPuzo415 4 месяца назад

I have a question. On a MBP. Is there a way to keep your original photos in Photos. But duplicate them so they are also in shared photo library. So you can manually back up the library from MBP to an external HD.

@macmost 4 месяца назад

Not sure what you are asking. Shared Photo Library is a feature designed to help you and your family share the same photos. But you are asking about backing up your library. Shared Photo Library doesn't do anything concerning backing up.

@RogerPuzo415 4 месяца назад

Thanks. I want to keep my original photos in my personal library and also put them on shared photo library. This way I can backup up personal library to an EHD. Ie. Photos will be in two places. In my personal library AND in shared library. Is this possible? As I understand it when you move to share SS library it removes from personal library. I don’t want them removed from personal library.

@macmost 4 месяца назад

@@RogerPuzo415 Watch this video again. it explains how Share Photo Libraries work. They aren't in two places. They are in one place but also shared with your family members. If you aren't dealing with sharing with family members, then this isn't the feature to use. Your library is BOTH your personal one (only you) and your shared library (you + family can access). You don't need to have something in both personal and shared. Just always view "both" and you'll see everything without having duplicates.

@RogerPuzo415 4 месяца назад

Thanks again. I appreciate it. Yeah. Great video. But I still want them in two places 😫. I feel safer being able to manually backing up to an EHD. But then want ability to share with family/kids. The shared albums (before shared library was developed) kept them in your personal library and just duplicated them in iCloud shared albums if I’m not mistaken (and still functions that way, correct?). I wish shared library at least gave option to do that. In other words I’d feel more comfortable having a back up in a safe than only using iCloud. But want them available to kids too.

@macmost 4 месяца назад

@@RogerPuzo415 So is the problem that you are afraid one of your kids may delete a photo? There are safeguards against that. I think I mention them in the video. But you can also ready about them here: support.apple.com/en-us/HT213248 "When a participant deletes a photo or video from the Shared Library, it moves to Recently Deleted. Only the contributor of that photo or video can delete it from Recently Deleted."

@garycard1826 Месяц назад

It took a bit of fiddling to figure this out. Good thing I had watched your video. I added Titles to all my pictures before sharing them to the Shared Folder but they do no appear there. Why is that?

@macmost Месяц назад

Do you mean you created a Shared Album? The titles should appear there. Not sure why they aren't for you.

@garycard1826 Месяц назад

Yes, I deleted all the pictures and after titling them in my Personal Album, shared them again to the Shared folder, but the titles don't appear there!

@macmost Месяц назад

@@garycard1826 You deleted the pictures? Sorry, I'm not following you. How did you share them if you deleted them?

@garycard1826 Месяц назад

Sorry, I mean I deleted them from the Shared folder and then shared them again after I added all the titles. But still the titles don't appear on the Shared folder pictures.

@macmost Месяц назад

@@garycard1826 I guess those just aren't included.

@juanvaldez1305 4 месяца назад

Hello. Having trouble here. I made a shared library but I cant see the photos of my wife. She doesn’t see my photos either. Does anyone know why? On our iphones

@macmost 4 месяца назад

You wouldn't see her photos and she wouldn't see yours. You would both see the photos you each designate as being shared between the two of you.

@gpellmind Год назад

I've been hesitant to try shared library because I don't know how it will handle duplicate photos that my wife and I have air-dropped to each other.

@macmost Год назад

Since you decide what to add, just try it and see. Start it off empty, add a few photos each. Then try one of those duplicates and see what it does. Probably both will be there.

@kdonlinex 9 месяцев назад

so you can’t you create “shared albums” in the shared library?

@macmost 9 месяцев назад

You should be able to, sure.

@painfullyhonest 2 месяца назад

nope. i go to photos/settings and the only options are general or icloud there is no shared folders option....now what? the version I have is 9.0 is that the problem?

@macmost 2 месяца назад

9.0 is current. Are you maybe not using iCloud Photos?

@painfullyhonest 2 месяца назад

@@macmost I don't think I understand your question. When I use photos it doesn't it automatically use iCloud? Do I have to initiate something or turn it on somewhere?

@macmost 2 месяца назад

@@painfullyhonest No. You have the option to use iCloud or not. Look in Photos, Settings.

@timhoffman3180 Год назад

Please help me understand. If I have a photo I want to share with the family, First I have to choose what are my favorite 5 family members. Then, I can only put that photo in the shared album, and then trust the other members wont, crop, edit, delete my only original photo? I see there is a notification i can receive if a photo is deleted. How do I get the deleted photo back? Is the deleted photo in my deleted folder or is it gone for good?

@macmost Год назад

If you don't trust the other people, then they are probably not good candidates for library sharing. But even if they make a mistake and delete one, you can get it back pretty easily. Yes, it would be in your deleted folder.

@timhoffman3180 Год назад

@@macmost Thanks for confirming.

@zigatretjak75 Год назад

A propos photos- I somehow dragged and dropped the photo library into pictures. Mow I cannot reverse the process. Any solution to this?

@macmost Год назад

What did you drag and drop, exactly? The large Photos library file is normally in the Pictures folder. That is its default location.

@zigatretjak75 Год назад

Thank you for your reply! My Mac is new and I have not noticed a library in Pictures until 2 days ago. At that time I opened the Photo app and chose a photo for editing in Topaz app. When I dragged it, the photo did not drop in Topaz as expected. Instead the Pictures folder opened and there I noted the Photo library and separately the photography I chose for editing. I could drag and drop the photography from Pictures into Topaz, edit it and when done I had a copy of edited photo in Pictures along with the Photo library. Then I had to drag and drop the edited photo into Photo library. However, it seems that was only a copy since the edited photo remained as separate file in Pictures. To avoid duplicates I deleted the edited photo in Pictures. Thank you for your help, regards Ziga TRETJAK

@macmost Год назад

@@zigatretjak75 If you want to edit a photo from the Photos app in another app, use Images, Edit With. See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-is7L1nrQT4w.html

@zigatretjak75 Год назад

@@macmost thank you so much, your contribution is very useful indeed!

@stsxt05 Год назад

Hi Gary, I have approx 50000 photos in about 50 albums named in year order, but now i have shared my library with my wife she can see the 50000 photos but my album data is not shared and she simply has 50000 photos in a random order, can i share my album data to to maintain the sorted order of our family photos? im using MacAir M1 , Ventura 13.1, IOS 16.2 iphone 12 and and IPAD 9th gen IPADOS latest version too. My wife is IOS 16.2 on an iphone 13, all patches and updates are installed but Apple seems to have missed this vital component off the new shared library function, or am I doing something wrong, does anyone else share their library but successfully include album titles too? thanks

@macmost Год назад

Albums aren't shared, photos are. You both have separate albums, organized as you each want. The photos shouldn't be in random order, but date order if she is viewing them that way.

@stsxt05 Год назад

@@macmost thanks Gary thats a great shame thats pretty useless then, 50000 photos from loads of holidays from three decades all mixed up again is next to useless, oh well, something we wont use then, i thought this would be of benefit to share our family memories !! appreciate the rapid response though !

@macmost Год назад

@@stsxt05 Why are they "mixed up?" They are all dated and some may have GPS if you took them with a phone. I never bother with albums myself. I just look at the dates for a trip and there are all the photos from that trip.

@stsxt05 Год назад

@@macmost Hi Gary , because 30 years ago GPS data wasnt invented lol !! , and to be hionest neither of us can remember what we had for dinner last week let alone where we were 30 years ago, so our photos are sorted by titles reflecting an occasion or place, this is placed in the album title, remove the album title and we have no way of sorting them into a specific holiday or family occasion. Some places we visited several times a year so the potential for mixing photos up is huge. However, Ive just found if I copy the album title and then slect all photos in an album i can paste this to all the photos in the keywords field, im hoping this is searchable !!! thanks for your elp though , appreciate the help Sir

@NathanYu Год назад

How is shared library more useful than shared album?

@macmost Год назад

I try to explain that in the video. Very different things.

@KevinGerhart1701 23 дня назад

I wish there was a way to do shared library, but make the files read only so people couldn't change them.

@macmost 23 дня назад

A Shared Album does that. A shared Library should only be used with one or a very few people that you completely trust, like your immediate family. For "people" you should use Shared Albums.

@KevinGerhart1701 23 дня назад

@@macmost I'm seeing that now. I guess I was looking for a slicker solution than Dropbox for read-only photo sharing (that preserves my file names) with family and friends.

@JacobAndJamal 9 месяцев назад

If a family has a shared account, and only wants access to their own individual photo stream, what do we need to do ? I let my wife log onto my iPad with her account now my photos are showing in her photo stream

@macmost 9 месяцев назад

Sounds like when she logged out of your account, she kept the photos on the iPad. Then when she logged into her account it added those photos to her Photos library ("library" not "stream," that was something different). Can't say for sure, but that's my guess.

@sxgroups 11 месяцев назад

Unless I click the option to save all my photos and vidoes in the iCloud first, this shared library option is not even visible. This is ridiculous, as my photos run into 100s of GB of storage, the space for which I don't have in my iCloud account even with 200GB of storage. Now that Apple is shutting down Photo Stream, which was so useful, I find no way to create similar options to share photos without any interventions with my spouse. This is insane.

@macmost 11 месяцев назад

Yes, this is a feature of iCloud so you'd need to be using iCloud Photos to use iCloud Shared Photo Library. But if your intention is to just share galleries of photos with friends, then you don't need either iCloud Shared Photo Library or Photo Stream. You are looking for simple "Shared Albums" which have been around for many years.

@LiandaLudwig Год назад

How do you share a movie that is a huge file that is NOT in your library? (made with iMovie) I have relatives who are not Mac people (horrors!) and even though I've tried to "share" and they made an iCloud account, they still can't open it. Frustrating!

@macmost Год назад

Use a free streaming service like RU-vid. Make it super-easy for them: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FYP6ttYmWzE.html

@rivvvers Год назад

I’m not to fond of the idea that photos are ‘moved’ to this shared library. Sounds like a receipt to have photos lost for good

@macmost Год назад

You shouldn't share a library with someone you don't trust. Plus, if you look at the details there are many failsafes against exactly the thing you are worried about.

@ruudsmulders9445 Год назад

Very dissatisfied with iCloud 200 GB family storage, sharing a complete library is a drama and the support is hopeless have been struggling with storage since the arrival of Ventura and iOS 16, have been calling Apple for more than 2 hours in total, the supervisors can't figure it out and have put the problem to Apple itself, but that takes so long very unfortunate I feel so powerless except that I can switch to Google Problem more than 60,000 photos were largely duplicated, I think I'm starting again as head of the family and deleted the family members and deleted all my photos, now my family members have 5 GB standard storage and iCloud tries to download with them 60,000 photos that aren't there, it says they will leave the family account once the 60,000 photos are downloaded, but you can't with 5 GB and iCloud completely crashes unusable for months hopelessly bad from Apple 1 star is still too much. Be warned, or better yet, ignore them

@mehmd1913 Год назад

Thank you for this tutorial. I do not see the value in this. I like shared albums better.

@macmost Год назад

Keep in mind Shared albums are for showing photos to "other" people, not people you want to have a combined album with. Shared albums are lower resolution versions and you have a limit on how many photos you can in them.

@mehmd1913 Год назад

@@macmost I did not know that shared albums are at a lower resolution. Even if the invitees are on iPhones? How many pictures/videos in a shared album vs shared library?

@macmost Год назад

@@mehmd1913 I can't remember the resolution limits of the photos, but they have the amount limits here: support.apple.com/en-us/HT202299

@mehmd1913 Год назад

@@macmost got it. Thank you!

@pakoserrano6704 Год назад

But i have another question Right now I create shared album with my family all of them have iPhones and if we go to the beach we create an album called Beach if we go to the park we create another album called park and every body upload the photos of the park and beach and it’s easy to find it But If I automatically shared a photo how can I separate phtos from the beach and for the park because all the pictures upload to the same shared album Maybe I don’t understand well the benefits of this functions

@rossrobson91 Год назад

I really don’t see many people ever using shared libraries, it just takes your privacy and throws it away.

@macmost Год назад

How so??? What does it even have to do with privacy at all?

@peteallennh 19 дней назад

So... I just created the shared library and added 21 photos to it. I shared the invite to my family, only to find that this stupid thing shared all 1800+ photos on my iPhone. More broken crap. Deleted.

@macmost 19 дней назад

Sounds like you simply didn't add 21 photos to it like you thought, but added all of them. You could have simply selected them and removed them pretty easily.

@SteveHartmanVideos 2 дня назад

This is exactly what I am worried about.

@maux6396 Год назад

What happened with “just works“? This is way too complicated for the average user. I hope Apple can come with a better solution, easier to understand and to use

@ruudsmulders9445 Год назад

Zeer ontevreden over iCloud 200 GB gezinsopslag, delen van een complete bibliotheek is een drama en de support is hopeloos ben al vanaf de komst van Ventura en iOS 16 aan het sukkelen met de opslag, in totaal al meer dan 2 uur met Apple gebeld, de supervisors komen er niet uit en hebben het probleem bij Apple zelf neergelegd, maar dat duuuuurt zo lang erg jammer voel me zo machteloos behalve dat ik naar Google kan overstappen Probleem meer dan 60.000 foto’s stonden er grotendeels dubbel op, ik denk ik begin opnieuw als gezinshoofd en heb de gezinsleden verwijderd en al mijn foto,s verwijderd, nu hebben mijn gezinsleden 5 GB standaard opslag en probeert iCloud bij hen 60.000 foto’s te downloaden die er niet zijn, er staat dat ze het gezinsaccount verlaten zodra de 60.000 foto’s zijn gedownload, maar dat kan niet met 5 GB en iCloud loopt helemaal vast al maanden onbruikbaar hopeloos slecht van Apple 1 ster is nog te veel. Wees gewaarschuwd, of slimmer nog laat ze links liggen