Here’s one reason why you shouldn’t use shared photo albums with Photos Family Sharing

Yurick Vezina asks a seemingly reasonable question about deleting an iCloud shared album:

I’m the owner and I don’t have the option to remove or add subscribers nor to delete the album! All the current subscribers are part of my family in Family Sharing; I don’t have the option to remove them.

Apple documents this very, very poorly, like a lot of elements of Family Sharing, which is a method of pooling certain resources without sharing an Apple ID. Family Sharing has slightly improved since its introduction, but I have recommended against using it, as it has too few advantages and locks you into a set of irreversible choices with your accounts, media purchases, and app purchases. You can leave a family group, but you still wind up entangled.

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