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Q: How can i combines photos of my girlfriends iPhone into my iCloud Photolibrary and vice versa?

Hi Apple-lovers,

I have the following situation. Me and my girlfriend both have a iPhone using different iCloud accounts and both with iCloud photolibrary enabled. We went on a nice holiday together and we both took photos with our iPhones. Now i want the following:

 

- I want to have her photos into my PhotoLibrary

- I want to have my photos into her PhoyoLibrary

- I do not want to see duplicate photos

- I want all photos in full (original) resolution with all metadata present (i.e. Location, Date, Time, Edit-information, etc.)

 

Want is the best way to do this? Has anybody a clever solution without losing Resolution or Metadata?

 

Thanks,

Rob, the Netherlands

iPhone SE, iOS 9.3.2

Posted on Jul 10, 2016 8:21 AM

by Rob.nl,Solvedanswer
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A:

I found a solution myself. This how you can import photos from someone elses iPhone into your Photos Library without losing any information like resolution, live-photo, edit-information or geolocation.

 

I used my MacBook.

- Open Photos app on Macbook

- Connect iPhone of someone else

- Authorize the computer on the iPhone when asked

- Click 'Import'-tab in the Photos-app on the MacBook and import selected photos

 

In my case, i did the same with my girlfriends iPhone. She logged in into the MacBook using her credentials and executed the same steps as described above with my iPhone connected.

 

End result is that both of us now have all photos from both iPhones in our own libraries in full quality and resolution.

Posted on Jul 14, 2016 12:09 PM

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Q: How can i combines photos of my girlfriends iPhone into my iCloud Photolibrary and vice versa?

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  • by Eric Root,Apple recommended

    Eric Root Eric Root Jul 10, 2016 1:36 PM in response to Rob.nl
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    Jul 10, 2016 1:36 PM in response to Rob.nl

    See the link. You can create a shared album.

     

    Photo Sharing - iCloud

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    Rob.nl Rob.nl Jul 10, 2016 1:35 PM in response to Eric Root
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    Jul 10, 2016 1:35 PM in response to Eric Root

    Does downloading from a shared album retain all photo attributes, such as resolution, live-photo, date/time and location info? I have a little doubts about the resolution... I thought the resolution was downsampled when downloading from shared albums.

  • by Rob.nl,Solvedanswer

    Rob.nl Rob.nl Jul 14, 2016 12:09 PM in response to Rob.nl
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    Jul 14, 2016 12:09 PM in response to Rob.nl

    I found a solution myself. This how you can import photos from someone elses iPhone into your Photos Library without losing any information like resolution, live-photo, edit-information or geolocation.

     

    I used my MacBook.

    - Open Photos app on Macbook

    - Connect iPhone of someone else

    - Authorize the computer on the iPhone when asked

    - Click 'Import'-tab in the Photos-app on the MacBook and import selected photos

     

    In my case, i did the same with my girlfriends iPhone. She logged in into the MacBook using her credentials and executed the same steps as described above with my iPhone connected.

     

    End result is that both of us now have all photos from both iPhones in our own libraries in full quality and resolution.