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I recently began sharing an iCloud storage plan with members of my family. Suddenly all their photos are showing up on my Photos ap on my Mac. We all have different Apple ID's. It's not just showing recent photos, but photos from years ago.
How do I stop this? I want to share storage but not access.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.14
It's not a shared "family" folder. The photos show up in my main feed.
To clarify:
I invited family to share storage plan. We all have different Apple IDs but share the same AT&T plan.
Their photos are now showing up in my Photos app - NOT in a family folder under SHARED – in my main photo feed.
I turned off "Shared Albums" to remove the "family" album just in case – even though there was nothing in that folder.
Nothing changed, all of my family's photos are still showing up in my Photos, both on my Macbook Pro and my iPhone.
I don't want to stop sharing the storage plan.
I DO want to stop sharing photos.
Everything I've read says this shouldn't be happening, but it is.
Yes, just checking because that's why you'd get all the families photos on all devices.
Perhaps you have done something else other than enable family sharing. Have you also turned iCloud photos on.
Yes, iCloud photos is on. But that shouldn't make them accessible to my family members, should it?
There is obviously something you have overlooked and we aren't aware of. Family sharing does not result in photos being shared across different ID's.
tygb wrote:
Photos will be shared when family sharing is set up....
They most certainly won't be.
thats how the family sharing account is designed by apple engineers .
It most certainly isn't.
How do I stop family's photos showing up on my Photos
