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Can you make a shared album and invite the same account to all of them?

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scrollaway1y ago· 2 in thread

I'm not sure what you mean by that. There's multiple accounts to invite. Do you mean a shared group?

I actually just tested creating a google group now, but indeed you cannot invite a group to a shared photo album.

Creating multiple shared albums, and sharing each album individually, manually, every single time, is super cumbersome. Plus I don't think the other users see the list of shared albums anywhere.

A huge shame given how great of a photo gallery app Google Photos is.

solardevOP1y ago

> Creating multiple shared albums, and sharing each album individually, manually, every single time, is super cumbersome.

Yes, this, sorry. I meant just having a "myorg+socialmedia@gmail.com" account, and sharing all the shared albums to that one user. The social media person always logs in with that account and they can see all the shared albums. But yeah, you do have to share all the albums with them individually (unless they're always of the same people/pets, in which case you can use the "partner sharing" AI stuff too which works maybe 80% of the time).

scrollaway1y ago

Yes, I've actually used partner sharing as a workaround like you mention but it's not ideal and clearly not built for this use case.

Ah well, I don't think there's a clean solution to this right now. A shame. Maybe someone will make one.

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