Mac OS Photos - Shared Albums

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Mac OS Photos - Shared Albums

I really don't like how Shared Albums in Photos is implemented.

Why can't I order by camera dates?

Why if I delete a picture from my collection it's not deleted from the Shared Album? At least ask me what I want to do if it's hard to do an automatic reconciliation.

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I don't care the explanation about that the Shared Albums are in reality Photos Stream, call it "Dumb Photo Streams that are useless to maintain a shared family album".

Where can I file a request to change this behaviour? is there anything like that for Apple?

Can I see if any improvement is happening for Photos anytime soon? it's stuck in this terrible status for ever now.

Otherwise I'll move my picts to some other software and I'll stop paying for icloud space.

I bet there are thousands of users like me that need a proper Shared Album feature that are dropping Photos for this reason.

Posted on Jan 30, 2021 9:23 AM

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TonyCollinet

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Jan 30, 2021 9:41 AM in response to tamer.s

Hi

We are users here like you, ranting at us isn't going to change anything. If you want to give feedback to apple, the only channel they might listen to is:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

They are more likely to do something if a lot of people request the same.

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tamer.s Author

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Jan 30, 2021 10:02 AM in response to TonyCollinet

I don't agree, sorry :)

I see this question being posed many times in this forum and everybody seems happy with the answer: "it's just a photo stream, they show up in the order they're added"

the slideshow of the shared album is done by camera shot date! not date added.

if you select the shared album and check the menu View>Sort there is only one greyed option that cannot be changed. what's the point to even show it?

This is a public forum, if many will understand by this thread how poorly this has been implemented, then it will make a difference and more comments will lead to actions in Photos team.

I wrote the feedback in the link you shared, thanks. Anyway I'm pretty sure I'll get no feedbacks or meaningful answers.

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Mac OS Photos - Shared Albums

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