[Solved] How to Sync Photos Between Two Apple IDs

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• User Case: How Do I Sync Photos Between Two Apple IDs?
• Why Need to Sync Photos Between Two Apple IDs?
• Best Way to Sync Photos Between Two Apple IDs
• Common Way to Sync Photos Between Two Apple IDs
• Conclusion

User Case: How Do I Sync Photos Between Two Apple IDs?

In the Apple community, many users raised the above questions. Now, many users may have two or more iCloud accounts, so it is not uncommon to move and sync photos between multiple accounts. From now on, this post will explore why users want to sync photos from different Apple IDs and how. Keep reading this article to find out.

Why Need to Sync Photos Between Two Apple IDs?

For Apple users, an Apple ID is a unique identifier tied to a specific account. As long as an iCloud account is registered, users can access photos from any device. By syncing photos across all devices, users can access their entire photo library from any device signed in with an Apple ID. This means users can easily view, edit and share photos on iCloud from their iPhone, iPad, Mac or any other Apple device.

However, because Apple ID marks the uniqueness of user data, it is difficult for users to merge or sync their data with data in other Apple IDs. Actually, users need to easily sync photos from different Apple IDs for the following reasons:

In this article, you can learn 2 possible ways to sync photos between different Apple IDs. The first method just requires you to add multiple iCloud Photos accounts to a professional web-based multiple cloud storage manager---MultCloud, and use the cloud sync function to sync photos easily. The latter method is to use the sharing function provided by iCloud to share photos with another iCloud account.

Best Way to Sync Photos Between Two Apple IDs

MultCloud is the easiest way to sync photos between 2 or more Apple IDs. As a professional cloud file manager, MultCloud provides Cloud Transfer, Team Transfer, Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, Remote Upload, and many other functions to help you transfer, sync and backup data between clouds without downloading or uploading, and even help you upload files to the cloud remotely. 

Compared with other sync methods, MultCloud can provide you with the following advanced options.

Plus, MultCloud supports Dropbox, Dropbox Business, Google Drive, Google Workspace, iCloud Photos, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, MEGA, Flickr, Box, pCloud, Amazon S3, and even NAS, WebDAV, FTP/SFTP, Shared with Me and Shared Drives, so you can manage multiple cloud storage accounts in one place.

To quickly sync photos between Apple IDs, you need to use MultCloud's "Cloud Sync" feature. The following is the detailed operation process.

Step 1. Sign Up

First, go to the official website to create an account. Alternatively, you can log in directly with your Google account or Facebook account.

Step 2. Add iCloud Photos

After signing up for MultCloud, click the "Add Cloud" button, select the iCloud Photos icon, and follow the instructions to add it to MultCloud.

Step 3. Sync 2 iCloud Photos Accounts

Click the "Cloud Sync" button and select the albums in these two accounts as the sync source and sync target respectively. Then click "Sync Now" to start syncing.

Also, if you want to back up from iCloud Photos to another cloud, you can add the target cloud to MultCloud, then enter the "Cloud Backup" interface, select its folder as the backup destination, and click "Backup Now". For example, you can backup iCloud Photos to Synology.

Common Way to Sync Photos Between Two Apple IDs

Shared Albums from iCloud are great for sharing vacation photos with family, honeymoon photos with your spouse, or funny pet photos with best friends, so you can opt for this feature as an alternative. You can choose the iCloud mobile app to do this.

Step 1. Launch "Photos", then tap the "Albums" tab at the bottom of the screen.

Step 2. Click the "+" sign in the upper left corner of the screen and select "New Shared Album".

Step 3. Enter a title for the shared album, and select "Next".

Step 4. Enter the person/address for "To:" and click "Create".

Step 5. Add photos or videos to this shared album.

Step 6. After that, open the shared album from the "Albums" tab, and click the people icon to set the permissions of collaborators. You can add participants (subscribers) to collaborate, remove subscribers, make albums public, allow others to add photos to shared albums, and receive notifications. You can also delete shared albums if desired.

This method can be temporarily used as an alternative to synchronizing photos between different Apple IDs, because this method has the following disadvantages:

• You cannot automatically sync new photos to other users, because you need to manually add photos to the shared album.
• Collaborators can also only manually upload new photos to the shared album to achieve sync.

Conclusion

As you can see, with MultCloud, you can merge two iCloud Photos accounts and manage all your files. Also, you can sync photos between two Apple IDs in just 3 steps, which can save you a lot of time.

In addition to the MultCloud cloud-to-cloud sync feature, you can also use the "Cloud Transfer" function to move files between cloud services, and use basic functions such as copy to, download, share, cut, paste, delete, preview, rename, copy, etc. to better manage cloud files. Just add your cloud account to MultCloud and you can use these features immediately.