Our family is using Amazon Photos with Family Vault feature that collects photos in one place. We use Amazon Echo Show to display the photos. We got tired by Echo's spam (we want to use only for photo frame and other features) and we would like to transition to iCloud Photos but we cannot find a similar solution.
Can anyone recommend a good set up with iCloud Photos and some sort of hardware to view our photos on an always on display? We do not wish to manually copy our photos to be clear.
An iPad mounted to a wall or on a stand would be my suggestion. You can leave it plugged in and set the display to never turn off.
There are a few different ways you could display your photos. One way would be to set the lock screen wallpaper to shuffle photos. The benefit of this approach is it leaves your iPad in a pretty normal state, easy to unlock and use at any time. However, your photo frame is then limited to the customizations you can make to the lock screen, which is still pretty good for your use case and has gotten better recently.
Another option would be to set up a slideshow in the Photos app or similar and then use Guided Access to keep the screen locked to that app or slideshow. The benefit of this approach is that you can display anything with tons of customization. However, there’s a bit of extra complexity in setting it up, unlocking the device to use it if you need to, and setting it up again afterward.
My advice is to try the lock screen wallpaper approach first and then switch to Guided Access if you don’t like it.
The last piece is making sure you have all the right photos from the whole family. For that, use an iCloud Shared Photo Library.
Can anyone recommend a good set up with iCloud Photos and some sort of hardware to view our photos on an always on display? We do not wish to manually copy our photos to be clear.