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

Shared Albums let yous share photos and videos with just the people y'all choose — and they can add 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 tree TV 4K or Apple Tv set HD to the latest tvOS. If you lot take a Windows PC, update to Windows vii or later on and download iCloud for Windows.
  2. Set up iCloud on all of your devices.
  3. Make sure that you lot're signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID on all of your devices that you lot desire to employ with Shared Albums.

Turn on Shared Albums

  • On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon, become to Settings > [your proper name] > iCloud > Photos, then plow on Shared Albums.
  • On your Mac, open the Photos app. From the bill of fare bar at the top of the screen, choose Photos > Preferences. Click the iCloud tab, then select Shared Albums.
  • On your Apple TV, go to Settings > Users and Accounts > iCloud and plow on Shared Albums.
  • On your Windows PC, open iCloud for Windows and select Photos. Click the Options push button to verify that Shared Albums is on, and then click Utilize. Acquire more virtually sharing albums with iCloud for Windows.

If you're using before versions of iOS, iCloud for Windows, iPhoto, or Aperture, you lot can still create and encounter 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 touch on

iPad and iPhone both showing a shared album

Create a new shared album

  1. Go to the Albums tab and tap the Add push button .
  2. Tap New Shared Album.
  3. Requite the shared anthology a proper noun, and then tap Next.
  4. Choose people to invite from your contacts, or type an electronic mail address or iMessage telephone number.
  5. Tap Create.

Delete a shared album

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

If yous're looking at your list of shared albums, you can besides tap Edit, then tap the Delete push button  to delete a shared anthology.

When you lot delete a shared anthology, 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 likewise. Deleting a shared ablum permanently deletes all of its photos. Earlier continuing, make sure that y'all salve any photos that you desire to continue.

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 you 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 yous created, go to the People tab, and turn on Public Website. Your photos publish to a website that anyone can meet in an up-to-date web browser.

Remove a subscriber

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

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

Add photos and videos

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

If you have a shared anthology open, you tin also tap the Add button to select photos and videos to add.

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

Delete from a Shared Anthology

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

If you're the possessor of a shared album, you tin delete any photos, videos, or comments from anyone. Subscribers can delete annihilation that they personally added. Annihilation yous 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 album 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 share photos and videos with someone, they can salvage shared items to their own library.

  1. Tap the photo or video.
  2. Tap the Share button.
  3. Tap Salvage Image or Save Video.

Utilise Shared Albums on your Mac

MacBook Air with Photos app showing a shared family album

Create a new Shared Album

Delete a shared anthology

  1. Open the shared anthology.
  2. Click the People button  in the toolbar.
  3. Click Delete Shared Anthology.

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 likewise. Deleting a shared ablum permanently deletes all of its photos. Before standing, brand sure that you save any photos that you want to keep.

Invite more people

Remove a subscriber

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

Every bit the creator of a shared album, you lot control who can access it. Yous can remove subscribers or delete the album at whatever time.

Add photos and videos

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

If yous take a shared album open, you can also click "Add together photos and videos" to select photos and videos to add. You can also simply elevate photos from your library direct into the shared anthology in the sidebar.

When you add new photos, the people that you lot share the album with are notified automatically. Open up the shared album, click the People button  in the toolbar, and brand sure that Subscribers Can Mail service is turned on then that they tin add photos and videos too.

Delete from a shared album

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

If yous have a shared anthology open, you lot tin too select a photograph and press the Delete cardinal to delete it from the shared anthology.

If y'all're the possessor of a shared album, you 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 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 album

When y'all share photos and videos with someone, they can save the shared items to their own library.

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

File types that you can use in Shared Albums

Shared Albums support these epitome formats:

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

Shared Albums as well support special formats that you capture with your iPhone, like slo-mo, fourth dimension-lapse, Live Photos, and Retentiveness videos. When shared, photos are reduced to 2048 pixels on the long edge, except panoramic photos, which tin can be upward to 5400 pixels wide. You can share GIFs that are 100MB or smaller.

Shared Albums support these video file types and formats:

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

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

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

Shared Albums upload a copy of your data. Downloaded content may not contain the same information as the original.

Shared Album storage limits

A shared anthology can concord up to 5000 photos and videos. If yous reach your Shared Album limit, you need to delete some photos or videos before adding new ones. The photos and videos y'all 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, just they don't count against your iCloud storage limit.

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