Does it have to say "Album Name by John Doe" at the top of the public website I create from shared albums? I have enough trouble keeping my personal information off of the Google machine, so if I want to share some of these links in forums or classified sites, I'd prefer not to have my name at the top...but there doesn't seem to be any way to remove it.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.0
You can try contacting Apple at the number at the bottom of this page and see if you can get them to change the name that's listed under your Apple ID account. Not sure if they will do it but you can certainly give it a try.
It looks like it will show the full name set up in your apple ID account settings.
So only by changing your name there.
Shared albums are private communication channels and even a shared album on a public webpage should only be shared with people you invite personally by name. Any person you invite personally to view your album should know your full name anyway. The shared albums are not supposed to be used as public web galleries, where you post the link to the shared album on the web. If you invite people to contribute photos to the shared album, they need to be sure, that only the people they are seeing on the invitation list will receive the link and be able to see this particular shared album and no one else. even a shared album as a public website is not public at all. Only people with the link can access it. Invite only people to the shared album, who you can trust to keep the URL to the shared album private.
If you want to publish a shared album as a public website and to share the link in a forum, where you do not know, who will be able to access this link, do not invite anyone as a subscriber to the album, with the invitation to post photos there. They may not like it at all, if people they do not know will get access to their photos.
No, I'm not sure, and I don't understand why it is there either.
You can feedback your wishes to apple here:
The name specified there seems to be connected to payment information likely to goof up billing for app store purchases, etc. It doesn't look like a place where a phony name can be used. Do you know for sure if this is the case? Right beneath that area, there's a part about hiding your real email, which seems less important. It's just strange; forcing that name into every public website created from a shared iCloud album doesn't make much sense to begin with. I don't understand why it's even there, let alone why there's no way to hide/change it.
Is there a way to remove my full name from shared albums in iCloud?
