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Sudden photo sharing Q
My wife and I have separate Apple IDs and different mail addresses, and have never used Apple’s family sharing feature. Suddenly, all the photos taken by my wife and stored in her Photos library have appeared in my Photos library on my iPhone. How can I remove them?
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This is almost certainly because your wife has turned iCloud Photo Sharing on, and you have somehow inadvertently subscribed to that share, either through Messages or in an email you would have received. Reversing that is straightforward, and should remove all shared photos from your library immediately.
If she can locate the shared album, she can go to its People tab, select you as a subscriber, then select Remove Subscriber. She can also turn off iCloud Photo Sharing in two different places within Settings: either tap on iCloud, then Photos, and disable it there, or tap on Photos & Camera to see it with other controls.
Once those photos have gone from your Photos, your wife can turn iCloud Photo Sharing on again when she wishes; for them to reappear on your iPhone, you’d have to accept an invitation to share with her again.
If disabling sharing does not remove them, and you’re sure that they’re not being shared from a Mac or elsewhere, you can try signing out of your respective iCloud accounts at the same time, then signing back in and ensuring that your account details are entered correctly.
If there has been some confusion in your accounts, you’d need to contact Apple’s iCloud support to check and, if necessary, fix that.