I Didn't Know iCloud Photo Was a Thing

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When sharing photos at work most of my co-workers would simply post a link to Google Photos in our company Slack. As an iCloud user, I thought my photos were only visible on my Mac or iPhone - machines logged in to my Apple account and setup to sync photos. So if I wanted to share photos with co-workers on Slack, I had to either upload them to Flickr or upload them directly into Slack. I always just uploaded them into Slack.

I just realized today that I can view all of my photos from the web via iCloud Photos. What’s more is I can share photos with a URL just like my co-workers have been with Google Photos. The shared link also expires after 1 month, which is a nice additional security / privacy feature.

Knowing that I can access my photos outside of Apple devices eases my mind. While I can’t ever see myself switching to Android from iOS, I could see myself using a Thinkpad + Linux for my desktop computing needs.