I work at a school and create a shared photo library to easily collect and safely store photo from throughout the school. My experiment was a success and the school would like to take it on formally. Is there a way to transfer ownership of the photo library to another user?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Numbers
Over 10 teachers and I snap photos with our iPhones (4s-6s) and upload the photos to the shared iCloud photo album Via the Photos app on our iPhones. I imagine most of the teachers are running iOS 8-9. I'm not sure the version of Photos they use on their phones, but I'm running iOS 9.3.1.
I created the iCloud Shared Photo Album and so I am the only one with the ability to erase pphotos. I would like to transfer those rights to another team member, our IT pro. Currently I'm not sure how to grant him admin rights that would allow him to easily delete files.
That's album is associated with the Apple/iCloud ID and password you used to enable the Share Photo Albums and manage. That ID will also be linked to any purchases you have made from the App Store, iTunes Store or the Apple Online Store.
1 - Therefore, you may want to create a new Apple ID just for the school. Then on your Mac log out of iCloud and log back in with the new Apple ID. You'll have to recreate the shared albums with that ID using the current library and re-invite the teachers again. You should have all of the photos from the Shared Album in the Photos library. If not then download them and add to the library before switching.
2 - Once you have the new shared album(s) up and running you an delete the existing ones.
3 - Now when you turn the library over to the IT pro, they can create a new "school photo" user account on their Mac, log into iCloud with the new school Apple ID that you created. You'll have to copy the library to the "school photo" user account on the IT Mac and set it as the System Photo Library. The IT pro will then have control of the shared libraries from that special user account.
Describe how you're collecting and storing the photos in detail, i.e. system version, application used and version, where the library is located, any iCloud usage if there is any, etc.
What type of photo library is it?
iPhoto? Photos?
I am not sure there is really an ownership issue, or are you just talking technically?
How do I transfer ownership of the shared photo library to another user?
