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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1780482" data-attributes="member: 396914">OK, thanks for clearing it up. On your iPhone, with iCloud Photos library off, Photo Stream off, then nothing is going to transfer from the iPhone, except when you connect to YOUR mac and Photos copies from your iPhone to your Photos library. Just taking a picture will NOT copy it over to anywhere. On the iPad, you saidWith those settings, photos in the iPad Photos app will not sync to anything except the Photos App on your Mac. Again, just taking a picture will NOT copy it anywhere.I would turn on PhotoStream and iCloud Photo Library, but the challenge is that your iPhone will be tied to YOUR iCloud account, not your wife's. But given that you have Family Sharing set, if I understand what the link I gave earlier means, you and she should be able to see one another's pictures. However, your account will also need expanded storage so that all of YOUR pictures can go to YOUR iCloud account to be shared with her. Now, I'm no expert, so if anyone who is wants to correct what I just said, come on in and help out. However, that should work, according to what I think Apple is saying.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1780482, member: 396914"] OK, thanks for clearing it up. On your iPhone, with iCloud Photos library off, Photo Stream off, then nothing is going to transfer from the iPhone, except when you connect to YOUR mac and Photos copies from your iPhone to your Photos library. Just taking a picture will NOT copy it over to anywhere. On the iPad, you saidWith those settings, photos in the iPad Photos app will not sync to anything except the Photos App on your Mac. Again, just taking a picture will NOT copy it anywhere. I would turn on PhotoStream and iCloud Photo Library, but the challenge is that your iPhone will be tied to YOUR iCloud account, not your wife's. But given that you have Family Sharing set, if I understand what the link I gave earlier means, you and she should be able to see one another's pictures. However, your account will also need expanded storage so that all of YOUR pictures can go to YOUR iCloud account to be shared with her. Now, I'm no expert, so if anyone who is wants to correct what I just said, come on in and help out. However, that should work, according to what I think Apple is saying. [/QUOTE]

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