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Have just started looking into shared albums and seem to have come across a major flaw. When you create a shared album from an already existing album, it does not carry the titles of each photo across.
I spent hours and hours clicking the get info button on each photo to to enter a title so that when you view the photo, it has a title above it; but when you create a shared album, the titles are not duplicated!
Any ideas anyone?
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
Hi barberlives123 & Old Toad,
Thanks for your clarification of that just being the way it works, but that leads me to the question, “Why?”
For example, the album I am sharing is comprised of photos of my family from way back when the kids were young and the people I’m sharing it with are also invited family members. The fact that they can’t see those descriptive titles in the shared album seems to me quite bizarre, and certainly a nuisance. The shared album doesn’t even allow me to enter information into the title metadata of the photos that have been copied! That seems to go against the whole premise of sharing ☹️ It should be up to me, the “author,” to decide what is private with my own family members.
Hi barberlives123 & Old Toad,
Thanks for your clarification of that just being the way it works, but that leads me to the question, “Why?”
For example, the album I am sharing is comprised of photos of my family from way back when the kids were young and the people I’m sharing it with are also invited family members. The fact that they can’t see those descriptive titles in the shared album seems to me quite bizarre, and certainly a nuisance. The shared album doesn’t even allow me to enter information into the title metadata of the photos that have been copied! That seems to go against the whole premise of sharing ☹️ It should be up to me, the “author,” to decide what is private with my own family members.
That’s a lot of what should be unnecessary work. The fact that Apple won’t let metadata be copied to shared albums makes me wonder how secure they consider shared albums to be. A failure of design in my humble opinion.
Hello MacUser308,
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. Upon review of your post, it seems that you have questions about the titles of photos carrying over when you share an album. We can see why you’d want this clarified so we’re happy to explain. Metadata (such as location, date, title, and other data) is intentionally not shared when you share photos with another album. This is working as expected for Photos.
We welcome all thoughts, comments and suggestions, on your Photos app or any other Apple products and services. Send us feedback on this here: Apple Feedback.
Additionally, this helpful article was linked to your posting in case you’ve not yet explored it: How to share albums in Photos on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Please let us know if you have follow up questions, so we can continue assisting. Take care!
Why? You'd have to ask Apple why they are so protective of our privacy. We're all just end users here like yourself.
You can bundle up the photos in a folder and email it to family members with all of the metadata intact. Or use a 3rd party photo sharing site that includes all of the metadata.
Thanks for your suggestion re 3rd party but I had already thought of that and was trying to keep everything under the Apple umbrella. I’ve used Google Photos fairly extensively for sharing and find it pretty seamless, but I’m continuing to explore the issue through Apple support because I like the whole syncing thing through iCloud.
You can always use a 3rd party image editor, i.e. Affinity Photos, GraphicConverter or Photoshop Elements for Mac, to add additional white space at the bottom of the photos and add the data you want the family members to have via text to that space before uploading to the Shared Album. Or use the Markup editing feature of Photos to add the text directly to the photo.
That's the way it was designed. All metadata is stripped from photos in Shared Albums as part of Apple's privacy protection policy.
Photos titles in shared albums
