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

Shared Albums let yous share photos and videos with but the people you cull — and they can add together their own photos, videos, and comments.

  • iPhone or iPad

  • Mac

Before y'all begin

  1. Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to the latest iOS or iPadOS, your Mac to the latest macOS, and your Apple Tv 4K or Apple TV Hard disk drive to the latest tvOS. If you have a Windows PC, update to Windows 7 or subsequently and download iCloud for Windows.
  2. Set up iCloud on all of your devices.
  3. Make sure that you're signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID on all of your devices that you desire to use with Shared Albums.

Turn on Shared Albums

  • On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos, and then plow on Shared Albums.
  • On your Mac, open the Photos app. From the menu bar at the height of the screen, choose Photos > Preferences. Click the iCloud tab, then select Shared Albums.
  • On your Apple Goggle box, become to Settings > Users and Accounts > iCloud and plough 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 Apply. Acquire more about sharing albums with iCloud for Windows.

If y'all're using earlier versions of iOS, iCloud for Windows, iPhoto, or Aperture, y'all can still create and see Shared Albums. In earlier versions of iOS, macOS, tvOS, and iCloud for Windows, Shared Albums was called iCloud Photo Sharing.

Utilise Shared Albums on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod bear on

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. Give the shared anthology a name, then tap Side by side.
  4. Choose people to invite from your contacts, or type an electronic mail address or iMessage phone number.
  5. Tap Create.

Delete a shared anthology

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

If y'all're looking at your listing of shared albums, you tin also tap Edit, so tap the Delete button  to delete a shared album.

When you delete a shared album, it'southward automatically removed 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 besides. Deleting a shared ablum permanently deletes all of its photos. Earlier continuing, make sure that you salve any photos that you want to go on.

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 that yous want to share this album with.
  5. Tap Add.

Yous tin can fifty-fifty share albums with friends and family who don't apply iCloud. Just open up a shared album that you created, go to the People tab, and turn on Public Website. Your photos publish to a website that anyone can see in an upwards-to-date web browser.

Remove a subscriber

  1. Open the shared album.
  2. Become to the People tab.
  3. Select the subscriber that y'all desire to remove.
  4. Tap Remove Subscriber at the bottom of the screen.

As the creator of a shared album, you control who can access it. You can remove subscribers or delete the album at whatsoever time.

Add photos and videos

  1. In the Photos tab or from within an anthology, tap Select and and so select the photos and videos that yous want to share.
  2. Tap the Share button ,  so tap Add to Shared Anthology.
  3. Choose the album where yous want to share your photos. So tap Mail service.

If you accept a shared album open, you lot tin also tap the Add push button to select photos and videos to add together.

When you add new photos, the people that you share the album with are notified automatically. Make sure that Subscribers Tin can Postal service is turned on so that they can add photos and videos as well. Just get to the shared album's People tab.

Delete from a Shared Album

  1. Open the shared album.
  2. Tap the photograph or video.
  3. Tap the Trash button .
  4. Tap Delete Photo.

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

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

Save photos and videos from a shared album

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

  1. Tap the photograph or video.
  2. Tap the Share button.
  3. Tap Save Paradigm or Save 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 the shared album.
  2. Click the People push  in the toolbar.
  3. Click Delete Shared Album.

When you delete a shared album, it's automatically removed 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 ablum permanently deletes all of its photos. Before continuing, make sure that you relieve any photos that you want to keep.

Invite more people

Remove a subscriber

  1. Open up the shared album.
  2. Click the People button  in the toolbar.
  3. Select the subscriber that you want to remove.
  4. Click Remove Subscriber.

As the creator of a shared album, you control who can access it. You can remove subscribers or delete the album at any time.

Add together photos and videos

  1. Select the photos and videos that you desire to share.
  2. Click the Share push  in the toolbar, and so select Shared Albums.
  3. Choose the album where you desire to share your photos.

If you take a shared album open, you can besides click "Add photos and videos" to select photos and videos to add. You can as well simply drag photos from your library directly into the shared album in the sidebar.

When you add together new photos, the people that 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 Mail is turned on so that they can add photos and videos likewise.

Delete from a shared anthology

  1. Open the shared album.
  2. Select the photo or video.
  3. Command-click, then click Delete Photo. Click Delete.

If you have a shared anthology open, you can also select a photo and press the Delete primal to delete it from the shared album.

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

Any photos that you 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 album

When yous share photos and videos with someone, they tin can save the shared items to their own library.

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

File types that yous can apply in Shared Albums

Shared Albums support these image formats:

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

Shared Albums also back up special formats that y'all capture with your iPhone, like slo-mo, time-lapse, Live Photos, and Memory videos. When shared, photos are reduced to 2048 pixels on the long edge, except panoramic photos, which can be up to 5400 pixels wide. Y'all can share GIFs that are 100MB or smaller.

Shared Albums support these video file types and formats:

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

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

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

Shared Albums upload a re-create of your information. Downloaded content may not contain the same information as the original.

Shared Album storage limits

A shared anthology can concur up to 5000 photos and videos. If you accomplish your Shared Album limit, you 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 you delete the shared album completely.

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

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