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I have an iPhone 12. My wife has a iPhone 13.
We have a shared photo library together. We both have share automatically turned on sharing automatically works on my wife’s phone when I’m in Bluetooth range however, it does not work on my phone when my wife is in Bluetooth range.
I’ve confirmed that we both are running the most recent version of iOS.
I’m stumped here. Any ideas?
iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 16
Does your camera show the yellow Share button, when you take a picture?
If not, switch to the shared library in the Camera.
See the section "Use Shared Library - Share straight from the Camera": How to use iCloud Shared Photo Library – Apple Support (UK)
Personally, I would not risk to enable the automatic sharing right from the camera. It can be embarrassing, when we accidentally take a photo, that we did not intend to take. When I put the iPhone away with the camera still open and then touch a volume button when taking it up, it will take a picture, for example.
And sharing all the mediocre or bad shots before weeding them out, is a waste of bandwidth and wasting storage on the devices of the sharing partners. I am sharing a photo when I mark it as a favorite and delete the others.
Does your camera show the yellow Share button, when you take a picture?
If not, switch to the shared library in the Camera.
See the section "Use Shared Library - Share straight from the Camera": How to use iCloud Shared Photo Library – Apple Support (UK)
Personally, I would not risk to enable the automatic sharing right from the camera. It can be embarrassing, when we accidentally take a photo, that we did not intend to take. When I put the iPhone away with the camera still open and then touch a volume button when taking it up, it will take a picture, for example.
And sharing all the mediocre or bad shots before weeding them out, is a waste of bandwidth and wasting storage on the devices of the sharing partners. I am sharing a photo when I mark it as a favorite and delete the others.
Thanks for the response!
Yes - when I pull up my camera it doesn’t have the yellow share button even when I’m right next to my wife. When I pull up her camera when she’s sitting next to me, her camera has the yellow share button enabled.
Im fine automatically sharing accidental shots with her. It would be way easier if every picture I took when I’m around her was shared by default.
Any other ideas?
I take it, you have checked if your Bluetooth is working properly? Does Air Drop work for you, for example?
And you have all settings enabled as in the document I linked above?
Share automatically in Apple Photos not working
