Sharing Photo Album with Family and Tagging

Greetings.


My husband I and both have separate Apple ID's but want to both look at the same photos in Photos. We can do this on Dropbox easily... we just use the same account. When he adds a photo to a folder it syncs across all of our devices instantly. I'd like to do the same in Photos. "Sharing" my photos with him seems like a silly term since I want him to have full access to everything and I've heard you can only share one folder? I'm also interested in tagging. For instance. I tag the photo "Florida" and when either of us types in "Florida" all those photos pop up. We'd like to do this on any device.


So my question is, how do we share all our photos which are located in multiple albums and do this across all of our devices? Also, can we tag them with keywords and can we both use this feature to find the photos instantly? We, of course, want to keep our own Apple ID's. Dropbox does everything but the tagging. Should we stick with that? Thanks!

MacBook Air, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1), MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 12:22 PM

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Oct 11, 2018 11:33 PM in response to Urbaneness

Photos is a single-user application. You can show each other your photos in shared albums, but only in a smaller size. You can share up to 200 albums, but shared albums are limited to the pixel size to 2048 pixel at the longest edge. And for privacy reasons metadata are removed. So they are not suitable to work together on your photos.

You could however create a separate Photos Library as an archive, where you add all photos you want to share with each other. You just have to create this separate library on an external drive or a separate disk partition to avoid problems with the file ownership. Otherwise you could not open this library in turn. The file system format on the drive must allow you to set the "Ignore ownership on this volume" checkbox. The procedure is described here: Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support

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