Photos information

If you use the Share button in Photos the images are not on your Desktop. They're in the Photos Library. If you want to get the metadata embedded into the file so others can see if with apps that can read EXIF and IPTC fields the export the photos with those two checkboxes checked and add them to the email from the Desktop.

How do you "share?" If you use the "File>Export>Export nn Photos" dialog you can choose to include the metadata.

Lots of other methods of "sharing" strip the metadata form the image file to protect you.

You still haven't said how you attempted to "share" a picture with Mail.

With Mail you can choose a size of your attachment. If you do not choose "Actual Size" then the IPTC metadata is not included.

You could also add a spreadsheet with the titles and other metadata as a PDF, when you mail the photos to share them.

In Photos, select the photos you want to share with titles etc, then enter the keyboard shortcut ⌘P to print them and select the stylesheet layout. Select the the number of columns you want, then specify the metadata.

Then selectb "Print" and select to print to PDF in the PDF menu.

Attach the annotated spreadsheet to the email with the shared photos.

Sorry, my screenshots are in german, because I cannot change the language to english right now, but I hope, you can see where the controls are that you need to find.

Try exporting the photo to the Desktop with those options sleeted. Open the photo with Preview and click on the Inspector button.

Then clic on the IPTC button and check to see if your metadata is there:

xHave you installed and run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or VPN apps on your Mac?

That's the problem

EnricoRoy wrote:

I used Share from the File menu in Photos

That's the problem. When you use the Share menu it doesn't pick up the edits particularly the metadata. You need to report the photo to the desktop with those checkboxes selected and then add them to the email. Also select "Full Size".

Just ran a test of your method and the export method to confirm and it did confirm.

It looks like Photos>Share will export Exif data but not most IPTC data, but even the Exif data will not be included with Mail's small, medium, or large formats. Large seems to be the default. But if you specify Actual Size, the Exif data is recorded, including location, but not keywords, or captions. Oddly, the title seems to survive.

The family members who do not use Macs will have to use an app that can read the EXIF and IPTC metadata fields in the image file.

You do export them with these checkboxes checked, right?

You can verify that the info is in the file by opening the file with Preview, click on the Inspector button and then on the IPTC and EXIF buttons to view those fields:

EnricoRoy wrote:

The photos I'm trying to share are already on my Desktop

Lots of methods of "sharing" strip the metadata from the image file to protect you. I still do not know what you mean by "share." While this is the forum for Photos on a Mac, your are talking desktop. What exactly are you doing? Can you tell us the steps?

EnricoRoy wrote:

I've attached some if these photos to an e mail message and sent them to a family member.

It's the "attached" part that you have not provided steps for. Did you drag the picture to Mail? Did you use Share from the File menu in Photos? Did you use the Photo Browser in Mail? Did you export the picture, saving in a folder on the desktop, and drag or something from there? Or something else? Before we can help we need to know what you did...

Type: sleeted should be selected.

There is no reason to ever install or run any 3rd party "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus, VPN or security apps on your Mac.  This documents describe what you need to know and do in order to protect your Mac: Effective defenses against malware and other threats - Apple Community and Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support.  

There are no known viruses, i.e. self propagating, for Macs.  There are, however, adware and malware which require the user to install although unwittingly most of the time thru sneaky links, etc.   

Anti Virus developers try to group all types as viruses into their ad campaigns of fear.  They do a poor job of the detecting and isolating the adware and malware.  Since there are no viruses these apps use up a lot of system resources searching for what is non-existent and adversely affect system and app performance.

There is one app, Malwarebytes, which was developed by a long time contributor to these forums and a highly respected member of the computer security community, that is designed solely to seek out adware and known malware and remove it.  The free version is more than adequate for most users.  

Also, unless you're using a true VPN tunnel, such as between you and your employer's, school's or bank's servers, they aprovide false secutiry from a privacy standpoint.  Read these two articles: Public VPN's are anything but private and Former Malware Distributor Kape Technologies Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, Zenmate, and a Collection of VPN “Review” Websites.  They just use up system resources with no tangible value.

Also EnricoRoy wrote:

I'm getting the idea through this forum that I should cancel my Norton subscription for my Mac, is that right?

If so what about the iPad and iPhones - cancel the subscription for them too?

Yes.