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

Shared Albums allow you share photos and videos with only the people you choose — and they can add their own photos, videos, and comments.

  • iPhone or iPad

  • Mac

Before you begin

  1. Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon to the latest iOS or iPadOS, your Mac to the latest macOS, and your Apple TV 4K or Apple Boob tube Hard disk to the latest tvOS. If you accept a Windows PC, update to Windows 7 or later and download iCloud for Windows.
  2. Set iCloud on all of your devices.
  3. Brand sure that y'all're signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID on all of your devices that you want to apply with Shared Albums.

Turn on Shared Albums

  • On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos, then turn on Shared Albums.
  • On your Mac, open the Photos app. From the carte bar at the top of the screen, choose Photos > Preferences. Click the iCloud tab, and so select Shared Albums.
  • On your Apple tree Television set, go 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 button to verify that Shared Albums is on, and so click Utilize. Learn more than about sharing albums with iCloud for Windows.

If you lot're using earlier versions of iOS, iCloud for Windows, iPhoto, or Discontinuity, you tin can nevertheless create and see Shared Albums. In earlier versions of iOS, macOS, tvOS, and iCloud for Windows, Shared Albums was called 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 anthology

  1. Go to the Albums tab and tap the Add button .
  2. Tap New Shared Album.
  3. Give the shared album a name, then tap Next.
  4. Choose people to invite from your contacts, or type an email accost or iMessage phone number.
  5. Tap Create.

Delete a shared anthology

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

If you're looking at your list of shared albums, yous can also tap Edit, then tap the Delete button  to delete a 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 besides. Deleting a shared ablum permanently deletes all of its photos. Earlier continuing, brand sure that you lot save any photos that you 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 that you lot want to share this album with.
  5. Tap Add.

You can even share albums with friends and family who don't employ iCloud. Just open a shared album that you created, get to the People tab, and turn on Public Website. Your photos publish to a website that anyone tin run across in an up-to-engagement spider web browser.

Remove a subscriber

  1. Open up 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.

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

Add photos and videos

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

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

When you add new photos, the people that y'all share the album with are notified automatically. Brand sure that Subscribers Tin can Mail is turned on so that they tin can add together 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 photo or video.
  3. Tap the Trash push .
  4. Tap Delete Photo.

If you're the owner of a shared anthology, you tin delete any photos, videos, or comments from anyone. Subscribers tin 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 fifty-fifty if the shared anthology is deleted or the person who created it stops sharing it.

Save photos and videos from a shared album

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

  1. Tap the photo or video.
  2. Tap the Share push button.
  3. Tap Salvage Epitome 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 anthology

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

When you lot delete a shared anthology, 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 web too. Deleting a shared ablum permanently deletes all of its photos. Before continuing, make sure that yous save any photos that you want to go on.

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 yous want to remove.
  4. Click Remove Subscriber.

As the creator of a shared album, yous control who can admission it. Yous tin remove subscribers or delete the anthology at whatever time.

Add photos and videos

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

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

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

Delete from a shared album

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

If yous have a shared anthology open, you can as well select a photo and press the Delete primal to delete information technology 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 lot delete is automatically deleted from the album on all your devices and the devices of subscribers.

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

Save photos and videos from a shared anthology

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

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

File types that yous can use in Shared Albums

Shared Albums back up these image formats:

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

Shared Albums also support special formats that yous 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 broad. Yous tin share GIFs that are 100MB or smaller.

Shared Albums support these video file types and formats:

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

Videos can be up to fifteen minutes in length and are delivered at upwards 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 aforementioned information as the original.

Shared Album storage limits

A shared album can concord up to 5000 photos and videos. If yous accomplish your Shared Album limit, you lot demand 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 lot 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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