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

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

  • iPhone or iPad

  • Mac

Before yous 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 Hd to the latest tvOS. If y'all have a Windows PC, update to Windows 7 or later and download iCloud for Windows.
  2. Set upwardly iCloud on all of your devices.
  3. Make sure that you're signed in to iCloud with the aforementioned Apple tree ID on all of your devices that you want to use with Shared Albums.

Plough on Shared Albums

  • On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings > [your proper noun] > iCloud > Photos, then turn on Shared Albums.
  • On your Mac, open the Photos app. From the carte bar at the tiptop of the screen, choose Photos > Preferences. Click the iCloud tab, then select Shared Albums.
  • On your Apple tree Boob tube, go to Settings > Users and Accounts > iCloud and turn on Shared Albums.
  • On your Windows PC, open up iCloud for Windows and select Photos. Click the Options button to verify that Shared Albums is on, then click Apply. Learn more almost sharing albums with iCloud for Windows.

If yous're using earlier versions of iOS, iCloud for Windows, iPhoto, or Aperture, you can still create and meet Shared Albums. In earlier versions of iOS, macOS, tvOS, and iCloud for Windows, Shared Albums was chosen iCloud Photo Sharing.

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

iPad and iPhone both showing a shared album

Create a new shared album

  1. Go to the Albums tab and tap the Add together 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 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 you're looking at your list of shared albums, you can also tap Edit, and so tap the Delete push  to delete a shared album.

When y'all 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 web too. Deleting a shared ablum permanently deletes all of its photos. Before continuing, make sure that you lot save any photos that you desire to keep.

Invite more than 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 y'all want to share this anthology with.
  5. Tap Add.

You can even share albums with friends and family who don't use 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 meet in an up-to-date web browser.

Remove a subscriber

  1. Open up the shared album.
  2. Become to the People tab.
  3. Select the subscriber that you 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 information technology. You can remove subscribers or delete the album at any fourth dimension.

Add photos and videos

  1. In the Photos tab or from within an album, tap Select and then select the photos and videos that y'all want to share.
  2. Tap the Share button ,  and so 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 anthology open, you lot can too tap the Add together button to select photos and videos to add.

When you add new photos, the people that you lot share the anthology with are notified automatically. Make certain that Subscribers Tin can Post is turned on so that they tin can add photos and videos too. Just become 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, you can delete any photos, videos, or comments from anyone. Subscribers tin delete anything that they personally added. Annihilation you delete is automatically deleted from the album 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 even if the shared album is deleted or the person who created information technology stops sharing information technology.

Save photos and videos from a shared album

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

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

Apply 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 push  in the toolbar.
  3. Click Delete Shared Album.

When yous delete a shared album, information technology'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 salve any photos that y'all 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, you lot control who tin access it. You can remove subscribers or delete the album at any time.

Add photos and videos

  1. Select the photos and videos that y'all want 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 you have a shared album open, you tin can also click "Add photos and videos" to select photos and videos to add. You lot can also simply drag photos from your library straight 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 button  in the toolbar, and make sure that Subscribers Tin Postal service is turned on so that they tin add photos and videos too.

Delete from a shared anthology

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

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

If you're the owner of a shared album, you lot 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 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.

Save photos and videos from a shared anthology

When you 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 yous can utilize in Shared Albums

Shared Albums back up these epitome formats:

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

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

Shared Albums back up 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 can't upload RAW photos to Shared Albums on your Windows PC.

Shared Albums upload a re-create of your data. Downloaded content may non contain the aforementioned information as the original.

Shared Album storage limits

A shared anthology can hold up to 5000 photos and videos. If you accomplish your Shared Album limit, you lot need to delete some photos or videos before adding new ones. The photos and videos you lot 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, only they don't count confronting your iCloud storage limit.

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