Unable to add a photo from Photos - Private Access to Photos

[Rebecca Welhouse]

Just bought an iPhone 15 after a good run on an iPhone 8+. Also, I was able, after a couple of tries, to transfer my family file on my iMac running 14.2.1 to iCloud Drive from Dropbox - and was able to access ReunionTouch on the new phone. Probably should have only tried one of these at a time, but my Dropbox subscription was coming up for renewal.

I just tried to add a photo from Photos to a person in ReunionTouch on the new iPhone and got this message: Private Access to Photos - Your photo library may be shown in this app, but it can only access the photos and videos you select to share with it. Because the app does not receive access to your photo library, you won't be asked to manage privacy. Apps that use Private Access to Photos will appear in Privacy settings.

I looked at ReunionTouch in the Photos app in Privacy & Security and sure enough, it says, "Private Access - This app can show your photo library, but can only access the items you select." Is this new? Is this there a way to change this? How do I "select" items to access? No other app has this "Private Access" designation. Is this an iCloud issue? What do I do?

[Rebecca Welhouse]

This appears to be an iCloud Drive problem, because I just tried to add a photo to my family file that is still openable on Dropbox and it worked. Will this be fixed or am I going to have to go back to Dropbox for my main family file? Anyone?

[theKiwi]

I am able to add a media item from photos on my iPhone to ReunionTouch - there's one tricky thing to achieve...

First you get this screen

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As it tells you to - click on a photo to Select it you get this screen

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The part I have trouble with is clicking the Choose that's way down at the bottom right corner - my fingers and thumb are too fat to easily tap right in that corner easily.

Then I end up with this

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and you can see the thumbnail has been added to the gallery for myself.

Roger

[Rebecca Welhouse]

Thanks for responding, Roger. That's exactly the way it used to work for me and since I switched from DropBox to iCloud Drive, it just won't work!

[theKiwi]

So at what stage of my instructions does it fail?

Roger

[Bob White]

Reminder: Leister recommends that one not use the old iPhoto or the current Photos for storing pictures. However, there seems to be a variation here that appears to be related to Privacy & Security settings somehow or another. Hopefully, Gregg can enlighten all of us regarding what is going on in this instance. (More info... in the manual, there is a section titled "Working with Apple's Photos App......")