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How do people organise their family photos? katie and i have our own accounts on each of our macs and our own AppleID for our phone/iPads. We have Family Sharing enabled for purchase and have iCloud storage that is 'family shared'.
However, our photo libraries remain frustratingly separate. What I'd like is all our 'family' photos to be accessible to both of us on any of our devices but that still seems impossible.
We've got digital photos going back to 2000 from the looks of things. We started with a single computer and account which was fine back then. Number of pictures starts going up massively as cameraphones got good.
Some stuff is sorted into Albums, some from earlier versions of iPhoto as 'events' (which now appear as albums) - there's probably 200 or so like this.
I can create a shared album in iPhoto, give Katie access, then select photos to put into it but that's a shit load of manual work - you don't seem to be able to select from existing albums in the 'select' window. Can drag and drop but that's still a load of work.
There doesn't seem to be any way to "share" existing albums (or for that matter, the whole library).
How about iCloud Family sharing? Not that I've used it.
You need to look past Apple. The way our family do this is with dropbox. If me or the mrs take a photo the app automatically uploads. You can also install on the mac and sync everything. Guess you can do similar with Google photos or flickr.
Then every so often i'll go and organise photos into years or month and years depending on how many we have.
iCloud family sharing works on the 200GB and above plans in the manner you require.
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">iCloud family sharing works on the 200GB and above plans in the manner you require.</span>
not as far as I can see. We’ve got 200gb shared but no way to create a shared photo library across 2 Apple ids.
Two approaches here:
https://www.imore.com/how-use-icloud-family-sharing-photos-mac
Use Family Sharing or an iCloud shared photo album.
That said I like to keep stuff locally - but then I'm not bothered about sharing my photos.
Two approaches here:
Didn't find that when I searched - clearest explanation of how iCloud sharing works (and it's limitations).
I'd not clocked that there was a 'share to icloud' option under the sharing button. So you *can* open an existing album, cmd-A to select all, share, create new album. Still a very manual process (can't just right click and share to someone) but better.
We use the iCloud sharing to create shared albums. I've got one called 'The Kids' that my wife and the oldies are invited to. Anyone with an invite can view and contribute photos to it.
Or if you want to share the same library then when you open iPhoto with the option key held down then you can point the application to the iPhoto library. You first have to give all the users read and write access to the library file by going into finder, get info on the library file and change access permissions to include users and change their status to read and write.
A little bit of a faff but only takes a few seconds once you've set it up.
Or if you want to share the same library then when you open iPhoto with the option key held down then you can point the application to the iPhoto library. You first have to give all the users read and write access to the library file by going into finder, get info on the library file and change access permissions to include users and change their status to read and write.
A little bit of a faff but only takes a few seconds once you’ve set it up.
How does that play with iCloud?
Are you actually doing that yourself? I'm pretty sure I tried it a few years back and ended up with permissions issues (despite having set up as you say). From memory started getting pictures in the library that appeared blank. I think new stuff that was added to it wasn't treated properly.
We use WhatsApp for most photo's, and just dropbox the ones that are wanted in HD for printing.