iCloud shared album and photos widget

I have a rather simple question: my wife and I are using Apple family, with shared storage. Now since iOS offers the "shared photo lilbrary", we both are planning save all our photos to our shared library.

So far so good, it looks like the perfect solution for us.

However, we are wondering: does the default iOS photo widget app also picks photos out of the shared photo library? Can somebody please confirm that?

Posted on Nov 12, 2022 2:12 AM

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