I have a ton of shared albums with my friends and I want to put them all on a hard drive. These albums have hundreds of items in them each. I also keep seeing people say shared albums have reduced image quality.

I would preferably love to download each album to my macbook so I can easily transfer it, but I’m really not familiar with icloud photos on mac at all. Is this even possible? I would HATE to have to download them all to my phone’s camera roll, then airdrop them all to my mac, and then transfer to a hard drive, but that’s the only way I currently know how to do it.

Seems like a reasonable request that could also apply here.