Under 18 workspace edu users unable to share in google photos

[cheruwc]

We're using google workspace education and the under 18 restrictions seems to have blocked sharing entirely for under 18 user accounts which were created after June 2021. They get a message "Sharing is turned off" if they try to access sharing in google photos. If an over 18 user tries to share a photo or album to these under 18 user, they'll get a "Trouble sending photos. Try again later." message.

The under 18 restrictions listed users will not be able to use partner sharing and did not mention that sharing will be blocked entirely.

The current workaround is to put them as over 18 but defeats the purpose of the under 18 setting.

Anyone else facing this issue?

Google support is not able to provide clarity on this so far since its not a core supported service.