How to share albums in Photos on your iPhone, iPad and Mac

Shared Albums let you share photos and videos with just the people you choose – and they can add their ain photos, videos and comments.

  • iPhone or iPad

  • Mac

Earlier you begin

  1. Update your iPhone, iPad or iPod impact to the latest iOS or iPadOS, your Mac to the latest macOS and your Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD to the latest tvOS. If y'all take a Windows PC, update to Windows 7 or later on and download iCloud for Windows.
  2. Prepare iCloud on all of your devices.
  3. Make certain you're signed in to iCloud with the aforementioned Apple ID on all of the devices yous want to utilize with Shared Albums.

Turn on Shared Albums

  • On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, become to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos, so turn on Shared Albums.
  • On your Mac, open the Photos app. From the menu bar at the tiptop of the screen, choose Photos > Preferences. Click the iCloud tab, and so select Shared Albums.
  • On your Apple TV, become to Settings > Users and Accounts > iCloud and turn on Shared Albums.
  • On your Windows PC, open iCloud for Windows and select Photos. Click the Options push to verify that Shared Albums is on, then click Utilise. Find out more than almost sharing albums with iCloud for Windows.

If y'all're using earlier versions of iOS, iCloud for Windows, iPhoto or Aperture, you lot tin yet create and see Shared Albums. In before versions of iOS, macOS, tvOS and iCloud for Windows, Shared Albums was chosen iCloud Photo Sharing.

Use Shared Albums on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

iPad and iPhone both showing a shared album

Create a new shared album

  1. Get to the Albums tab and tap the Add push .
  2. Tap New Shared Album.
  3. Requite the shared anthology a name, then tap Side by side.
  4. Choose people to invite from your contacts, or enter an email accost or iMessage phone number.
  5. Tap Create.

Delete a shared album

  1. Open up the shared anthology.
  2. Go to the People tab.
  3. Tap Delete Shared Album.

If yous're looking at your listing of shared albums, yous tin also tap Edit, then tap the Delete button  to delete a shared album.

When yous delete a shared album, information technology's removed automatically from all of your devices and the devices of your subscribers. If Public Website was enabled, the shared album is removed from the spider web too. Deleting a shared album permanently deletes all of its photos. Earlier continuing, make sure you save whatsoever photos yous want to keep.

Invite more people

  1. In Albums, select a shared anthology that you created.
  2. Go to the People tab.
  3. Tap Invite People.
  4. Enter the names of people yous want to share this album with.
  5. Tap Add.

You can even share albums with friends and family who don't use iCloud. Just open a shared album that you created, go to the People tab and turn on Public Website. Your photos are published to a website that anyone can see in an upwards-to-date web browser.

Remove a subscriber

  1. Open the shared album.
  2. Go to the People tab.
  3. Select the subscriber you want to remove.
  4. Tap Remove Subscriber at the bottom of the screen.

Every bit the creator of a shared album, you control who tin can access it. Y'all can remove subscribers or delete the album at whatever time.

Add photos and videos

  1. In the Photos tab or from within an album, tap Select and so select the photos and videos that you lot want to share.
  2. Tap the Share push button , then tap Add to Shared Album.
  3. Choose the album where you want to share your photos. Then tap Post.

If you have a shared album open, you can also tap the Add together button to select photos and videos to add.

When you add together new photos, the people you share the album with are notified automatically. Make sure that Subscribers Can Post is turned on so they tin can add together photos and videos too. But go to the shared anthology's People tab.

Delete from a Shared Album

  1. Open the shared album.
  2. Tap the photo or video.
  3. Tap the Bin push .
  4. Tap Delete Photo.

If y'all're the owner of a shared anthology, you can delete whatsoever photos, videos or comments from anyone. Subscribers can delete anything they personally added. Anything you delete is automatically deleted from the anthology on all of your devices and the devices of subscribers.

Any photos you lot saved or downloaded from a shared anthology to your Photos library stay in your library even if the shared album is deleted or the person who created it stops sharing it.

Save photos and videos from a shared anthology

When you lot share photos and videos with someone, they tin relieve shared items to their ain library.

  1. Tap the photo or video.
  2. Tap the Share button.
  3. Tap Save Paradigm or Salve Video.

Use Shared Albums on your Mac

MacBook Air with Photos app showing a shared family album

Create a new Shared Album

Delete a shared album

  1. Open up the shared album.
  2. Click the People button  in the toolbar.
  3. Click Delete Shared Album.

When you delete a shared album, it'southward removed automatically from all of your devices and the devices of your subscribers. If Public Website was enabled, the shared album is removed from the web too. Deleting a shared album permanently deletes all of its photos. Before standing, make sure you save any photos you want to continue.

Invite more than people

Remove a subscriber

  1. Open the shared album.
  2. Click the People button  in the toolbar.
  3. Select the subscriber y'all desire to remove.
  4. Click Remove Subscriber.

Equally the creator of a shared album, y'all control who can access it. You can remove subscribers or delete the anthology at whatsoever fourth dimension.

Add photos and videos

  1. Select the photos and videos you lot want to share.
  2. Click the Share push button  in the toolbar, then select Shared Albums.
  3. Cull the album where you desire to share your photos.

If yous have a shared album open up, you can also click "Add photos and videos" to select photos and videos to add. You tin also just drag photos from your library directly into the shared album in the sidebar.

When you add new photos, the people you share the album with are notified automatically. Open the shared anthology, click the People push  in the toolbar and make sure that Subscribers Can Post is turned on so that they can add photos and videos besides.

Delete from a shared album

  1. Open up the shared album.
  2. Select the photo or video.
  3. Control-click, then click Delete from Shared Album. Click Delete.

If you have a shared album open up, y'all tin also select a photo and press the Delete key to delete information technology from the shared album.

If y'all're the owner of a shared anthology, y'all can delete any photos, videos or comments from anyone. Subscribers tin delete annihilation they personally added. Annihilation you delete is automatically deleted from the album on all of your devices and the devices of subscribers.

Any photos yous saved or downloaded from a shared album to your Photos library stay in your library fifty-fifty if the shared album is deleted or the person who created it stops sharing it.

Save photos and videos from a shared anthology

When you share photos and videos with someone, they can salve the shared items to their own library.

  1. Select the photograph and video yous want to save.
  2. Control-click, then click Import.

File types that you lot can utilize in Shared Albums

Shared Albums support these image formats:

  • HEIF
  • JPEG
  • RAW*
  • PNG
  • GIF
  • TIFF

Shared Albums as well back up special formats that you capture with your iPhone, such as slo-mo, time-lapse, Alive Photos and Memory videos. When shared, photos are reduced to ii,048 pixels on the long edge, except panoramic photos, which tin exist upwardly to v,400 pixels wide. Yous tin share GIFs that are 100 MB or smaller.

Shared Albums support these video file types and formats:

  • HEVC
  • MP4
  • QuickTime
  • H.264
  • MPEG-4

Videos tin can be upward to fifteen minutes in length and are delivered at up to 720p resolution.

* You can't upload RAW photos to Shared Albums on your Windows PC.

Shared Albums upload a copy of your data. Downloaded content may non contain the aforementioned data as the original.

Shared Album storage limits

A shared anthology tin hold up to 5,000 photos and videos. If you reach your Shared Anthology limit, yous need to delete some photos or videos before adding new ones. The photos and videos you share (and the comments or likes associated with those photos) stay in iCloud until you or the contributor delete them manually, or until y'all delete the shared album completely.

The photos and videos in your Shared Albums are kept in iCloud, but they don't count towards your iCloud storage limit.

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