Just before lockdown I hastily bought and set up an iPad for my 95 year old mother who lives 100 miles away from me with a live-in carer. The idea being that she could FaceTime/Zoom with, and see shared photos from the rest of the family with the carer’s help.
This is working very well, except that one of my sisters has no access to an Apple device. She is able to view the shared album on any browser with the public link, of course, but not add photos or comments to it. I suggested that she installs iCloud for Windows and creates an Apple account. She has done this, but when she tries to open iCloud Photos on her PC she gets a message that "there is no Apple device associated with this ID". With hindsight this is consistent with this link which says iCloud needs to be set up on an Apple device before starting.
So, If I sign out of one of my devices and sign in with my sisters ID it becomes “her” device, so the process should work, but raises questions:
1. What happens when I sign out of her ID and back in to my own? does it all fall down again?
2. Can Windows users add any photo on their computer to the shared album, or only ones that they have first added to their iCloud Photos Library? I suspect the latter, which raises another question about adding photos to her iCPL when “her” iPad is with me. Just done a test on a Parallels VM and the answer to this is yes they can.
At the moment she sends me photos she wants to add and I can do it for her of course, but if there is a reasonable way for her to do it directly we would do that.
Thanks for any input!
This is working very well, except that one of my sisters has no access to an Apple device. She is able to view the shared album on any browser with the public link, of course, but not add photos or comments to it. I suggested that she installs iCloud for Windows and creates an Apple account. She has done this, but when she tries to open iCloud Photos on her PC she gets a message that "there is no Apple device associated with this ID". With hindsight this is consistent with this link which says iCloud needs to be set up on an Apple device before starting.
So, If I sign out of one of my devices and sign in with my sisters ID it becomes “her” device, so the process should work, but raises questions:
1. What happens when I sign out of her ID and back in to my own? does it all fall down again?
At the moment she sends me photos she wants to add and I can do it for her of course, but if there is a reasonable way for her to do it directly we would do that.
Thanks for any input!
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