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My wife and I both have iCloud accounts for our photos from our phones. Is there a way for me to merge our photos or someone retrieve the photos from my wife’s iCloud account?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 11.4
You can't merge iCloud accounts.
What you can do is set up a separate user account on your mac which you sign into your wife's iCloud account. You can then sync a photos library on that account with her iCloud account
If you really want a merged library, then you could set up a library on an external drive that both accounts use as the system lirbrary. Though that would also merge your online iCloud accounts (both accounts would contain all the photos)
You can't merge iCloud accounts.
What you can do is set up a separate user account on your mac which you sign into your wife's iCloud account. You can then sync a photos library on that account with her iCloud account
If you really want a merged library, then you could set up a library on an external drive that both accounts use as the system lirbrary. Though that would also merge your online iCloud accounts (both accounts would contain all the photos)
Great, thanks
I probably don't want to merge our accounts per se, but would like to retrieve photos from her account into my account and delete the photos that I move from her account to mine. Is there an easy way to do that with our accounts besides individually sending her photos to me?
No - it will be manual
But the easiest way (assuming more than 1 or 2 photos are needed) will be to export a batch of files (in one step - select them all, then file>export unmodified original) to a folder on the senders mac, then transfer them to the receiver mac via usb stick, and import them from there.
If both accounts are on the same computer is there a way to share a folder or drive?
You can use a shared iCloud drive folder as the easiest way.
Alternatively either of you can give read/write priveliges to one of your folders to another user on the mac.
Thanks!
or maybe I just open her account in a browser and then download to my computer
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