I had been able to get comments to move with a posted photo if I posted the photos one at a time, but not when I selected multiple photos to post simultaneously. Unfortunately, now the comments seem to get stripped even when I post one photo at a time. Copying the comments over is possible but very time consuming. And without comments the photos aren’t as useful in a shared album
iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 18
It has always been this way, intentionally. Apple has stripped the location data, the titles, the descriptions, the keywords, the dates when sharing a photo to a shared album, for privacy reasons, so we are sharing just the photo (in a smaller, optimized version for sharing), but not accidentally any metadata. It is only recently, that Apple has relented and is keeping the dates and we can get comments added, when we share the photos one at a time.
The shared albums are a very old service, introduced as the first iCloud Service together with My Photo Stream with MacOS 10.11 Lion and Mt. Lion in 2011/12. At that time they were called Shared Photo Streams and were intended to be used as a chat with pictures, not as a web gallery of photos. We are supposed to to share a photo, the subscribers like them and add a comment, respond by sharing a photo of their own. At that time we still had a better tool to share albums, with iPhoto iOS - we could create shared Web Journals and slideshows, but we needed a chat with pictures.
Now we can do this kind of chat better using the Messages.app, and the shared photo streams are no longer necessary for this purpose, but we are left without an easy way to share Web Journals and slideshows. Apple has renamed the Shared Photo streams to Shared albums and stopped to remove the dates, so we now can sort them chronologically, but they are not yet really albums - they are still a stream of photos for sharing photos and talking about our photos
I would recommend to share only very few, handpicked photos, one at a time. And add the comments before you invite the other subscribers, otherwise they will get an alert, whenever you add a comment.
It has always been this way, intentionally. Apple has stripped the location data, the titles, the descriptions, the keywords, the dates when sharing a photo to a shared album, for privacy reasons, so we are sharing just the photo (in a smaller, optimized version for sharing), but not accidentally any metadata. It is only recently, that Apple has relented and is keeping the dates and we can get comments added, when we share the photos one at a time.
The shared albums are a very old service, introduced as the first iCloud Service together with My Photo Stream with MacOS 10.11 Lion and Mt. Lion in 2011/12. At that time they were called Shared Photo Streams and were intended to be used as a chat with pictures, not as a web gallery of photos. We are supposed to to share a photo, the subscribers like them and add a comment, respond by sharing a photo of their own. At that time we still had a better tool to share albums, with iPhoto iOS - we could create shared Web Journals and slideshows, but we needed a chat with pictures.
Now we can do this kind of chat better using the Messages.app, and the shared photo streams are no longer necessary for this purpose, but we are left without an easy way to share Web Journals and slideshows. Apple has renamed the Shared Photo streams to Shared albums and stopped to remove the dates, so we now can sort them chronologically, but they are not yet really albums - they are still a stream of photos for sharing photos and talking about our photos
I would recommend to share only very few, handpicked photos, one at a time. And add the comments before you invite the other subscribers, otherwise they will get an alert, whenever you add a comment.
On further exploration I can post a photo to a shared album with the comments incorporated if I do it from my iPad!
Thanks for the history lesson-- that explains a lot!
But that is only one at a time, isn't it?
léonie wrote: … we can get comments added, when we share the photos one at a time.
Looks like just what you said!
Yes one at a time, but better than nothing. From my phone the comments don’t move along even one photo at a time
post photos with comments to shared photo album
