icloud photos album

I now have the following two questions, for which I couldn't find any clear answers in the forum:

--> (1) If I would sign up for a 2TB iCloud storage plan and would switch on iCloud Photos on both devices (with my Mac being the system library), would the resulting merged iCloud Photos library have all the albums both from my iPhone and from my Mac (that is "Albums" not just photos)? Or would it only have all the photos from both devices but the album structure from only one of the devices (e.g. my Mac)?

--> (2) If the resulting iCould Photos library does indeed also perfectly merge all the pre-existing albums from both devices, would then the resulting system library on my Mac accordingly now also show all the albums which I had created on my iPhone before setting up iCloud Photos?

Thank you, all the best,

Michael

By design, the 3 libraries, iCloud, macOS and iOS would be in sync at the end.

The free space on your phone would be a consideration. It would be the weak link here. A 440GB library on a Mac may take 44GB or more on your phone. You would have to optimize the phone's library which means smaller sized photos and no videos on the phone.

Buffalohill wrote:

So all albums currently on my iPhone and all albums currently on my laptop would end up in the merged library (specifically talking *albums* not just photos)...?

That should happen.

occasionally I had it happen, that the albums vanished, when I started to use iCloud Photos on several devices at the same time. So I recommend strongly to make sure you create a current backups of your library on your Mac before you start using iCloud Photos, better safe than sorry.

It seemed to work better, when I first enabled iCloud Photos on the iOS devices and got them in sync with iCloud Photos Library, before I enabled iCloud Photos on the Mac.