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How to Share Multiple Photos from Your iPhone. You can follow these easy steps to share multiple photos from your iPhone: Step #1: Open the Photos App. Bring up the Photos app on your iPhone, tap the Select option to the upper-right corner of the screen, and then start selecting the photos that you want to send. The default is Photos Library 2, and that’s a pretty awful way to tell it apart from the main Photos Library. When you name the new library, you can save it in the Pictures folder like the. Here is a guide on how to use multiple libraries within Photos on your Mac.

Fat Cat Software makes two very similar products: PowerPhotos and iPhoto Library Manager. Each product performs many of the same functions, but PowerPhotos works with Apple's current 'Photos' app, while iPhoto Library Manager works with the older 'iPhoto'. Below is a summary of their similarities and their differences.

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Fat Cat Software app	PowerPhotos works with	iPhoto Library Manager 4 works with
Apple app	Photos Photos is the built-in photo management app that currently ships with all new Macs.	iPhoto iPhoto was the built-in photo management app on the Mac for many years, until it was replaced by Photos in 2015.
Licensing and pricing	If you have purchased either PowerPhotos or iPhoto Library Manager 4 at any time, that same license can be used with both programs. Enter the name and serial number that was emailed to you when purchasing into the registration window, and you can access the full features of either program. There is no need to purchase separate licenses for the two programs. A single user license costs $29.95, and if you purchased iPhoto Library Manager 3 in the past, you can use your old serial number to receive upgrade pricing of $14.95.
Features in common	Create and manage multiple photo libraries Browse photos and albums in grid and list view Search for photos across multiple libraries Find and eliminate duplicate photos Copy photos and albums from one library to another Merge multiple libraries together
Feature differences	Delete photos directly from PowerPhotos Create albums directly from PowerPhotos Migration assistant helps migrate multiple iPhoto libraries to Photos	'Rebuild Library' command for corrupt libraries
Copying limitations	Faces and projects cannot be copied	Projects cannot be copied
System requirements	PowerPhotos 1.9.9 requires macOS Catalina (10.15) or Big Sur (11.0)	iPhoto still runs on systems up to macOS Mojave, but does not run on Catalina and is no longer receiving updates from Apple. iPhoto Library Manager requires macOS 10.6.8 through 10.13.6 (10.14 and later not supported).

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Photos makes it easy to create and switch between libraries. That’s good when photos need to be kept completely separate. For instance, a real estate agent might want to keep personal photos separate from house photos taken for work. But too much separation is annoying—you have to keep switching between libraries, and it’s easy to import new photos into the wrong one.

If you struggle with multiple Photos libraries, never fear—you can merge them. Unfortunately, the process is slow, can require a lot of disk space, and may result in the loss of some metadata. You have three options: merging through iCloud Photos, using the PowerPhotos utility, and merging by exporting and importing. Each has pros and cons.

Merge through iCloud Photos

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Apple’s iCloud Photos service offers the best solution for merging libraries. The trick is that whenever you designate a library as your System Photo Library, Photos automatically uploads all images that aren’t already present, adding them to the photos already in iCloud Photos. It also retains all the metadata surrounding your photos—titles, keywords, albums, facial recognition, projects, and more.

On the downside, using iCloud Photos almost certainly won’t be free unless you have so few photos that the combined library will fit within the free 5 GB of iCloud space Apple gives everyone. Almost everyone will have to pay for additional storage space ($0.99 per month for 50 GB, $2.99 for 200 GB, or $9.99 for 2 TB) for at least the month in which you’re doing the merge. iCloud Photos is a good service, so it’s likely worth paying for anyway.

More problematic is that the iCloud Photos way of merging will be very slow. If you haven’t already started using it, it could take a week or more to upload many thousands of photos. Plus, it will probably download the entire cloud-based collection of photos to each library whose photos you want to merge, so you may need a lot of local disk space too.

If you haven’t previously used iCloud Photos, go to System Preferences > iCloud and click the Options button next to Photo. In the dialog, select iCloud Photos.

Now, starting with the smallest Photos library and working up in size, follow these steps for each library you want to merge:

Double-click the Photos library to open it.
In Photos > Preferences > General, click Use as System Photo Library. (If it’s dimmed out, that library is already set as the System Photo Library.)
Wait for photos to upload. Scroll to the bottom of the Photos view to see the progress. A Pause link will appear there during uploading—click it if you need to keep Photos from overwhelming your Internet connection. Once the photos have all uploaded, go back to Step 1 with your next Photos library.

When you’re done, the last Photos library becomes the one you’ll keep, and you can delete the others. Needless to say, make sure you have good backups first!

Merge with PowerPhotos

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The $30 PowerPhotos from Fat Cat Software provides a variety of extra capabilities when working with Photos. It helps you to create and manage multiple libraries, copy photos between libraries, find duplicates, and—most important for this topic—merge libraries.

Because PowerPhotos is working entirely on your Mac’s drive, it’s fast and it doesn’t require huge amounts of extra disk space. Unfortunately, unlike the iCloud Photos approach, which brings in both originals and any edits to those photos, PowerPhotos can import only your original photos or the versions that you’ve edited, not both. Plus, it can’t merge facial recognition data, smart albums, or print projects.

PowerPhotos provides an actual interface for merging too—choose Library > Merge Libraries to start.

In the window that appears, you have four tasks:

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Choose source libraries. You aren’t limited to merging just two libraries; you can pick multiple sources.
Choose the destination library. This is the library you want to receive all the photos. If you want, you can create a new one.
Configure duplicate handling. PowerPhotos can import just one of several copies of duplicate photos, or you can bring in all the duplicates if that’s important.
Choose options. PowerPhotos can merge album contents, create an album from each source library, and create a backup before merging. Most important, though, is

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