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Will iCloud automatically update shared photo albums on MacBook?

Hello, on MacBook, if I move a shared photo album to either iCloud or OneDrive, will pictures added to the album afterward from other family members automatically update into the moved (iCloud or OneDrive) album?

I am trying to upload pictures from that shared album into an Etsy listing, but Etsy won't let me access albums. So I'm just trying to figure out how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated! TIA!Moving a shared album.


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MacBook Air, macOS 14.4

Posted on Jul 13, 2024 2:39 PM

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Jul 17, 2024 8:06 AM in response to JenP76

You're trying to upload pictures to Etsy using Safari, is that right? And you choose Photos, and you get a mess of pictures rather than your albums-- is that the problem?

If that's it, it's because there is a "feature" that Apple implemented for a different method of choosing pictures, and very few apps (including, oddly, Safari) have adopted it. So you're left with a mess.


Until this is all straightened out, there are a couple ways to go. One is to use that search box that's in the upper right corner. In the picture above I just have a bunch of unordered pictures , but if I type "horse" in the search box,

I get just the pictures of a horse race I visited a while back. The search box works great, and you can make it better by including keywords and significant terms in captions and titles.


Another option that I use is to choose the pictures in Photos, and export them to a temporary folder on my Desktop. The biggest advantage to exporting may be that you can make smaller picture files (which is all you need for most web things) so that they transfer quickly and don't get cropped in some funny way. You can also remove private information in the export dialog.


Let us know if this is what you wanted or not...

Will iCloud automatically update shared photo albums on MacBook?

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