Portrait watch Face - adding photos from shared album
I can add photos to the portrait watch Face from my albums but not my shared albums - am I doing something wrong
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Brian_P7
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Hey susanfrommarkham.
Great question. You're not doing anything wrong at all. With the Portraits watch face, local albums will work, but shared albums don't have the same functionality, and therefore may not work for setting as a watch face. However, what you can do to get around that is just save the photo you'd like to use as part of a created watch face to your device, and then the creation should occur without issue.
" Save photos and videos from a shared album
When you share photos and videos with someone, they can save shared items to their own library.
- Tap the photo or video.
- Tap the Share button
. - Tap Save Image or Save Video."
This info came from How to use Shared Albums in Photos on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Once that is all done, you can follow the steps in the "Create a photo watch face" section of View photos and Memories on Apple Watch and you'll be good to go.
Take care.