Is it Possible to have "shared with you" photos in the "for you" or a shared album but NOT in main photo library?

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Is it Possible to have "shared with you" photos in the "for you" or a shared album but NOT in main photo library?

So... seems simple enough but in classic apple fashion that probably means no or super complicated.... I can't be the only one who hates having every photo from every message automatically added to my photo Library so, like most of us, I have turned off "Automatic Sharing" under (iOS) Settings/Messages/Shared with You. However, I do miss being able to browse all those shared photos together ANYWHERE ELSE! with this setting off they are no longer in the previously very handy "For You" section of Photos. Seems dumb to me that we can't have that area on but not in the main Library - sort of the way the shared albums stay nice and separate (possibly too separate but that's for a whole other post :).

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Posted on May 30, 2024 11:35 AM

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léonie

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May 30, 2024 11:52 PM in response to heshphoto

The "For You" is showing you selected photos from your library. To see them there, they need to be in your library. The photos are no duplicates, they are just shown in two places.

The "Shared Albums" are different. They are holding duplicates of the photos you have shared. If you delete a shared photo from your Photos Library, once it appears in a Shared album, it will remain in the Shared album. But I cannot recommend to do this. The photos in the shared albums are scaled down to 2048 pixel at the longest edge, so you will lose quality, if you delete the original from your library, and Photos is stripping metadata - the photos do not retain the location or the captionsmin the shared albums. It would not matter so much for photos shared with you, that are already in a lesser quality and do not have location data.

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Is it Possible to have "shared with you" photos in the "for you" or a shared album but NOT in main photo library?

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