When I take photos with meta-data and share them in Photos the shared version has no meta-data. I spent weeks providing meta-data for thousands of photos I want to share with my family. How do I do this?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.14
The simple answer is: Not using shared albums in photos.
Shared albums reduce the resolution of the images as well as stripping away most of the metadata. I believe the official reason for this is privacy, but it would be nice to have the choice.
The only way to share (that I know of) within the apple ecosystem (other than the kludge of sharing a library via a movable external drive) is to export them to shared iCloud Drive folders.
Other than that, choose a suitable 3rd party photo sharing system.
The simple answer is: Not using shared albums in photos.
Shared albums reduce the resolution of the images as well as stripping away most of the metadata. I believe the official reason for this is privacy, but it would be nice to have the choice.
The only way to share (that I know of) within the apple ecosystem (other than the kludge of sharing a library via a movable external drive) is to export them to shared iCloud Drive folders.
Other than that, choose a suitable 3rd party photo sharing system.
If you are still run-in macOS 10.14 on your Mac, you use "File > Export" to save the photos a JPEGs in a folder, then transfer the exported files, as folder on a USB stick, or I a DropBox folder. The exported JPEGs will keep the metadata, but not, if you already upgraded to macOS 11 Big Sur. Then she the photos as TIFF files.
It's also a result of Apple's Privacy policy - keep metadata out of shared albums which could be public and contain location and date info.
You can ask them to change the policy (Tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added in Photos via Feedback - Photos - Apple.) but I doubt if it'll carry any weight.
When I share Photos none of the meta-data is shared, this is insane.
