Photo albums not showing when uploading to safari

You're hardly alone. Oddly, if you use Mail, you can see albums. It may be that services just haven't updated their websites to the new protocols. I'm beginning to suspect that it ain't going to happen.

I'm running Ventura, by the way, and I haven't heard new complaints about Sonoma changing the way the search works.

Still, I don't get why keywords work for me and not for you. Have you tried re-booting, lately?

It could also be the Library itself, if this has been carried over from a previous system. You could create a small test Library with a few pictures in it and see if the same thing happens.

You can also boot into Safe Mode-- I do that from time to time when I see something odd. Instructions are here:

           Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support 

Good luck, and let me know what happens...

This is what mine looks like when I start to upload to google images:

'mark is a keyword I use to find stuff, and it worked.

You might have to wait for a few minutes for Photos to finish writing to its data base. I notice that it sometimes takes just a little while for a search to find things that I just did.

Let us know!

There is currently no help for it. Safari on Sonoma does not show the albums in the Media browser.

As a work-around - keep Photos open to select the photo you want to upload. Then copy the filename from the photo and search for this filename when you are uploading photos from Safari. Or save the selected photo to the Desktop, then upload it from there. But use the Photos.app to find the photos you want to share.

In addition to what léonie suggested, if you have a bunch of pictures you want to upload, you can select them in Photos and assign a keyword to them all. (You can remove that later, if you want.) Then, in the upload process, you can search for the keyword and get the pictures you want.

So-- think keywords rather than albums

Your screenshot looks right to me.

Your original post says  "macOS 10.15" which is Catalina. Is this accurate? The business of not showing albums in the upload routine started with Ventura (macOS 13), I think.

It's odd to me that you said, "and it said that it had applied it to all of my selection" That doesn't happen for me-- when I select 60 pictures and open Info and add a keyword, it just appears in the keyword field with no response.

If keyword doesn't work for some reason, then I'd try putting "ETSYNOV2023" in the caption or the title to see if that works for you.

Gosh, you ask hard questions! (I hope that comes off friendly) I think that the images appear in the order they were added to Photos, so that the most recent ones are first. This is a great idea--the ones you upload last are the ones you're most likely to need--unless you add a bunch of pictures in mass, and then the order that Photos uploads them is pretty random within that group. This should be the same order you see in the Recents folder.

unfortunately I tried chrome and there are no folders shown either. This is absolutely ridiculous and sure hope they have fixed this in the next update or OS version