Q: How to add all photos from e.g. a year to a shared album?
I use the iPad Mini 4 with iOS 9.3.3 (and an iPhone and Apple TV4). I would like share my fotos (>5000) on the screen saver on Apple TV. For this, it appears, they have to be in a shared album. Since I have about 9000 picutes stored in the iCloud, I have to add a subset [less that 5000, that seems to be the limit :-( ]. So far I can only add picture per picture, or group per group ("Moments", usually 1 to 10 pictures) to the shared album, which takes for ever. If I do too many in one go, iPhoto crashes. I would like to add year per year, if possible (about 500 pictures in a year), or anything else more efficient. Any ideas? Thanks for all the help I can get.
iPad mini 4 Wi-Fi, iOS 9.3.3, Apple TV4
Posted on Jul 24, 2016 6:56 AM
You could use more than one Shared album and switch between them.
I'm using for my Screensaver only photos that have been marked as Favorite. Perhaps you can weed out your years a bit this way.
This page lists the maximum numbers of photos you can add to a shared album:
My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing limits - Apple Support
The limits are there, because the Shared Albums are a free part of iCloud and do not count against your free iCloud storage.
Posted on Jul 26, 2016 1:28 PM