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 lot choose — and they tin add together their ain 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 tree TV Hard disk to the latest tvOS. If you have a Windows PC, update to Windows seven or later and download iCloud for Windows.
  2. Prepare iCloud on all of your devices.
  3. Make sure that y'all're signed in to iCloud with the aforementioned Apple 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, become to Settings > [your proper noun] > iCloud > Photos, then turn on Shared Albums.
  • On your Mac, open up the Photos app. From the menu bar at the acme of the screen, choose Photos > Preferences. Click the iCloud tab, so select Shared Albums.
  • On your Apple Tv, get to Settings > Users and Accounts > iCloud and turn 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, then click Apply. Larn more about 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 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 album

  1. Become to the Albums tab and tap the Add together button .
  2. Tap New Shared Anthology.
  3. Give the shared album a proper noun, then tap Next.
  4. Cull people to invite from your contacts, or type an email accost 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 you're looking at your list of shared albums, yous tin too tap Edit, and then tap the Delete button  to delete a shared album.

When y'all 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 yous salve any photos that you want to keep.

Invite more people

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

You can even share albums with friends and family unit 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 see in an upwards-to-date spider web browser.

Remove a subscriber

  1. Open the shared anthology.
  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 anthology, you control who can admission information technology. Yous 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 you want to share.
  2. Tap the Share push button ,  then tap Add to Shared Album.
  3. Choose the album where you want to share your photos. And then tap Post.

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

When you add new photos, the people that you share the album with are notified automatically. Make certain that Subscribers Tin can Mail service is turned on so that they can add together photos and videos too. Just go to the shared album's People tab.

Delete from a Shared Anthology

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

If you're the owner of a shared album, yous tin can delete any photos, videos, or comments from anyone. Subscribers can delete annihilation that they personally added. Annihilation 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 album to your Photos library stay in your library even if the shared album is deleted or the person who created it stops sharing information technology.

Salvage photos and videos from a shared album

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

  1. Tap the photo or video.
  2. Tap the Share button.
  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 album

  1. Open the shared album.
  2. Click the People button  in the toolbar.
  3. Click Delete 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 anthology is removed from the web also. Deleting a shared ablum permanently deletes all of its photos. Earlier continuing, make certain that yous salvage any photos that you want to proceed.

Invite more than people

Remove a subscriber

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

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

Add together photos and videos

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

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

When you add new photos, the people that you share the anthology with are notified automatically. Open the shared album, click the People button  in the toolbar, and make sure that Subscribers Tin can Mail service is turned on so that they can add together photos and videos too.

Delete from a shared album

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

If you have a shared album open, y'all tin can also select a photo and press the Delete fundamental to delete it from the shared album.

If you're the owner of a shared album, y'all can delete whatever 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 y'all 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.

Salvage 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 yous want to relieve.
  2. Control-click, and then click Import.

File types that you can use in Shared Albums

Shared Albums support these image formats:

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

Shared Albums too support special formats that you capture with your iPhone, like slo-mo, time-lapse, Alive Photos, and Memory videos. When shared, photos are reduced to 2048 pixels on the long border, except panoramic photos, which can be up to 5400 pixels broad. You can share GIFs that are 100MB or smaller.

Shared Albums back up 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.

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

Shared Albums upload a copy of your data. Downloaded content may non incorporate the same information as the original.

Shared Album storage limits

A shared album can hold up to 5000 photos and videos. If you reach your Shared Album limit, yous need to delete some photos or videos before calculation 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 yous delete the shared anthology completely.

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

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