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 cull — and they can add together their own photos, videos, and comments.

  • iPhone or iPad

  • Mac

Before y'all brainstorm

  1. Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on to the latest iOS or iPadOS, your Mac to the latest macOS, and your Apple Tv set 4K or Apple TV Hard disk to the latest tvOS. If you accept a Windows PC, update to Windows 7 or later and download iCloud for Windows.
  2. Gear up iCloud on all of your devices.
  3. Make sure that you lot're signed in to iCloud with the aforementioned Apple ID on all of your devices that you want to use with Shared Albums.

Plow on Shared Albums

  • On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos, then turn on Shared Albums.
  • On your Mac, open up the Photos app. From the carte bar at the summit of the screen, cull Photos > Preferences. Click the iCloud tab, so select Shared Albums.
  • On your Apple TV, get 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 button to verify that Shared Albums is on, then click Utilize. Learn more about sharing albums with iCloud for Windows.

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

Use Shared Albums on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod bear upon

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 Anthology.
  3. Give the shared anthology a name, and so tap Next.
  4. Cull people to invite from your contacts, or type an email address or iMessage phone number.
  5. Tap Create.

Delete a shared album

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

If you're looking at your list of shared albums, you can likewise tap Edit, then tap the Delete push  to delete a shared album.

When you delete a shared album, it'south 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 save whatsoever photos that y'all want to keep.

Invite more people

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

You can even share albums with friends and family who don't utilize iCloud. Only open up a shared album that you created, go to the People tab, and plough on Public Website. Your photos publish to a website that anyone can see in an up-to-date spider web browser.

Remove a subscriber

  1. Open the shared album.
  2. Go to the People tab.
  3. Select the subscriber that 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 can admission it. You lot 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 so select the photos and videos that you desire to share.
  2. Tap the Share push ,  then tap Add to Shared Album.
  3. Choose the album where you want to share your photos. Then tap Post.

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

When y'all add together new photos, the people that yous share the album with are notified automatically. Make sure that Subscribers Can Mail service is turned on then that they tin add together photos and videos too. Only go to the shared album's People tab.

Delete from a Shared Album

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

If you're the owner of a shared album, yous can delete whatsoever 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 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 album

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

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

Utilize 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 up the shared album.
  2. Click the People button  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 also. Deleting a shared ablum permanently deletes all of its photos. Before continuing, make sure that y'all salvage any photos that you lot 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.

As the creator of a shared album, y'all command who can access it. Y'all can remove subscribers or delete the album at whatever fourth dimension.

Add photos and videos

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

If you accept a shared album open, you can also click "Add photos and videos" to select photos and videos to add. You can likewise but drag photos from your library directly into the shared album in the sidebar.

When you add new photos, the people that y'all share the album with are notified automatically. Open the shared album, click the People push  in the toolbar, and brand sure that Subscribers Tin Mail service is turned on and then that they can add photos and videos too.

Delete from a shared album

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

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

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

Whatsoever photos that you 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.

Salvage photos and videos from a shared album

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

  1. Select the photo and video that y'all want to relieve.
  2. Command-click, then click Import.

File types that yous can utilise in Shared Albums

Shared Albums support these image formats:

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

Shared Albums also support special formats that you capture with your iPhone, like slo-mo, time-lapse, Live Photos, and Retentivity videos. When shared, photos are reduced to 2048 pixels on the long edge, except panoramic photos, which can be up 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-iv

Videos tin exist up to xv 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 not comprise the same data as the original.

Shared Album storage limits

A shared album can agree upwardly to 5000 photos and videos. If you reach your Shared Album limit, you need to delete some photos or videos earlier adding new ones. The photos and videos yous share (and the comments or likes associated with those photos) stay in iCloud until y'all or the correspondent delete them manually, or until you delete the shared anthology 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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