See shared albums on iCloud.com?

I think it'd ridiculous that I have to SEND MYSELF a link in order to view a shared album via web browser instead of being to access it from my iCloud account. Absolutely insane that we have to do a dumb workaround like this to see shared albums via browser. Why on earth isn't there a "shared album" folder under the Albums folder tree.

I know this is an old thread.

But I wanted to get my vote in that this seems like it would be a simple feature and awesome addition to icloud.com. Make it seamless as to whether I am on my device or a browser - have 'Shared' as an option to see what has been shared with me _in icloud.com_

AND include the pics that others have shared in Albums that I started.

No brainer from a usability and customer experience perspective.

No I don't mean for it to automatically create a public website...automatically create a folder within iCloud so that we can have all the features on iCloud via web browser as we have on our i devices.

Why on earth isn't there a "shared album" folder under the Albums folder tree.

Shared albums are not hosted in the same space as your iCloud.com account is. Shared albums are not visible at all outside an iOS/macOS Photos app unless you create the public website.

Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Someone at Apple Dev dropped the ball on this one when designing the infrastructure and user experience of this feature. I am very disappointed in this oversite.😕

Not showing the shared albums the same as they are shown in Photos is one thing, but at least I should be able to see the photos anyway?? Now in icloud.com I cannot see even the photos from the shared album, and I cannot really understand what is the logic which photos are shown in icloud.com and which photos are not.

That's not how shared Albums work on the web. They get a URL, and are not visible from within iCloud.com.

Your subscribers would not be able to see them on iCloud.com as they would need your Apple ID and password.

iCloud: View a shared album on the web

Someone at Apple Dev dropped the ball on this one when designing the infrastructure and user experience of this feature

And you're telling me this because....?

Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

As I have explained. Shared albums are not viewable on icloud.com

Apple hosts them elsewhere. If you want to view them outside of an iOS or macOS photos app, you must make a public website and view it there.

Apple.com/feedback is where you can offer your concerns to Apple.

We understand this is not a built in feature of the iCloud website, but is the real answer that is is due to security, or is it a nudge to get people to alter all their devices to be an apple that can then run the iPhoto app? After all, you can give permission to others to post and edit photos on a shared folder, and other secure items are accessible in iCloud. Don't worry, we still love you Apple.

This helps me to stop trying to figure it out for the last 2 hours how to share from icloud.com - I added a title/caption to each of the photos I wanted to Share from icloud.com (as I saw no way to add titles to photos on the iphone app) - so I see now it's a moot point to ever title each one prior to trying to share, because it's impossible fo share from icloud.com, if they can't be shared from icloud.com and the titles don't push down pack to the photos on the iPhone app... then I have to ask, why is the title/caption feature even there for photos on icloud.com? These titles don't get downloaded with the photo either? Where would the titles/captions ever show up?

Yes. They see it on iCloud.com, but not while signed in to your iCloud.com account. Two separate "spaces"

The entire shared album "feature" is not visible while you are signed in to your iCloud.com account, so there is nowhere within your icloud.com account to show you the link. It is only visible in the Photos app.

Not roundabout. By design.

You're saying that even though I can view my shared album on my web browser, the shared album "feature" is not available.

Is that right?

No. It's not visible from within your iCloud.com account.

Shared albums are managed from within the Photos app. You can create and manage regular albums on icloud.com, but not shared albums.

The bottom line is, in order to manage, in whatever way you wish, Shared Albums, you do that in your Photos app, not from within your iCloud.com account.