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I just tried out the shared album thing. I shared a photo whose original size is 3.4MB. The photo you get when you download it from the shared album on iCloud i
by ptoomey3 8y ago
I just tried out the shared album thing. I shared a photo whose original size is 3.4MB. The photo you get when you download it from the shared album on iCloud is 925KB. And, I'm pretty sure there is no checkbox you can check to prevent that ️. I love lots about the apple ecosystem, but their photo management/sharing system is not one of them. It boggles my mind, as lots of Apple engineers have families. But, despite that, they don't have any system for seamlessly sharing photos (or entire libraries) with family members.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoI agree it's not perfect, but for myself and my family (we all have iPhones, and if you don't have an iPhone in our family, I will happily provide a refurbished one to you) it is superior to all other photo management options out there (Google might shut down Photos one day, Facebook needs no explanation, Smugmug/Flickr UX is woefully inadequate for family photo library management). One day I hope Apple improves delta/library reconciliation, but for now, it's the best I've been able to find. It Just Works (for the most part).
- ptoomey3 8y agoTotally to each their own...there is no perfect solution for this. I do understand the the apprehension with google shutting down services, though google photos is so wildly popular it would almost be analogous to them shutting down gmail at this point. Also, one nicety with google photos is the photos are just photos in a folder structure of your choosing. If/when the service goes away you can literally just import the folder structure to the next thing.