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Haleh Shoa's avatar

Great read, as usual, Paul. So, does this mean that we can't put assets into shared albums and delete them from our own feed? I do that with work assets and teach others to do that. It's really helpful for those who use their phones to create content.

Paul Einarsen's avatar

Explain. Not sure I understand the workflow.

Haleh Shoa's avatar

I put the photo/video into a shared folder (shared with the team or me) and then delete it from my Photos. It'll remain in the shared folder and not in my Photos so all I see are my personal photos.

Paul Einarsen's avatar

Clever. That’s how I use iCloud Shared Photo Library. I don’t see why the new Shared Albums would change that. In fact it would be even better because the Shared Albums content will be Original quality. I’ll play with that.

Jefferson Graham's avatar

another reason to bypass iCloud. Good writeup.

Paul Einarsen's avatar

How so?

I get a lot of value from iCloud already and I think this just adds more. Between a robust Shared Albums and iCloud Links I can share and transfer pretty much any file without using WeTransfer, Dropbox, Air.inc, or other third party services.