Aug 20: iOS 27 quietly makes your shared family albums count against your iCloud storage

MacRumors reported today that iOS 27 upgrades Shared Albums to full resolution — but the trade-off is that shared albums now eat into your iCloud storage for the first time. Until now, families could keep up to 5,000 photos and videos in shared albums without touching their iCloud limit; that free pass is gone, and photos other people add to your album count against *your* quota too. Apple's workaround is a temporary shared album that lasts 30 days and then deletes anything you didn't save. The story was flagged by two independent sources (GDELT + SearXNG) in this morning's sweep, and it hits every family running a grandparents-and-cousins shared album.