

Next, tap the album you want to grant uploading permission to-you’ll see the album’s thumbnails (shown below at left).

To do this in Photos for iOS, tap Shared at the bottom of your screen and, if necessary, tap the Back button at upper left to close the shared album you’re viewing so you see thumbnails of all shared albums.

An X next to a name means that person unsubscribed from the album. In that case, you can resend an invitation, as shown here. A question mark to the left of a name means that person hasn’t responded. This sheet lets you perform all manner of subscriber-related chores. In the sheet that appears, turn on Subscribers Can Post. Next, click the subscriber icon in Photos’toolbar (circled below). To set it up in Photos for Mac, double-click a shared album to open it or, if you have the sidebar turned (Option + Command + S), just click the album’s name in the Sharing section to select it. This creates an incredibly convenient, two-way sharing between you and your subscribers. To download content in Photos for iOS, tap the image thumbnail to open it, tap the share icon that appears, and then tap Save Image from the row of icons that appears at the bottom of your device’s screen.Ī bonus (and semi-hidden) feature of shared albums is that you can let any subscriber add their own pictures and videos to the album. Photos dutifully adds the item to your Last Import album, where you can treat it like any other picture or video in your library: Edit it, add it to another album, include it in a project, and so on. On your Mac, Control-click a thumbnail and choose Import from the shortcut menu. In order to edit or use a shared photo in projects of your own, you need to download it. This album houses big, beautiful thumbnails of the most recent additions to each shared album, as well as comments and likes-it’s a great way to breeze through shared content to see what everyone is up to. Photos also helpfully collects all your sharing updates in a special Activitiesalbum in Shared view in both Photos for Mac and iOS. To delete a comment, tap and hold your finger down on it, and then tap the Delete button that appears just above the comment. Beneath the picture, you see controls that let you like the image, view comments, and add your own. To like an image or add and view comments in Photos for iOS, tap to open the shared album, and then tap the picture itself to open it. To delete a comment, point your cursor at it and then click the Delete button that appears. Click Send, and Photos adds your comment to the list. Click the smiley-face icon to like it, or click in the comment field and enter something pithy. When you do, the comment sheet shown below appears. To like and comment on an item in a shared album in Photos for Mac, open the album, double-click a picture or video and then click the “+” icon that appears in the picture’s lower-left corner (it looks like a thought bubble). On the first sheet that appears (left), you can enter a comment and then tap Shared Album at the bottom to summon the next sheet which shows a list of shared albums (right). Creating a shared album in Photos for iOS works the same way, though you can’t select a whole album for sharing: You have to select individual thumbnails instead (bummer!). Once they click the Subscribe button in the email, the shared album appears in Photos’Shared view on all the devices on which they ’ve turned on iCloud Photo Sharing. Your invitees promptly receive an email invitation to subscribe to your album. When you’re finished filling out the all the fields, click Create. When creating a new shared album, you can use the sheet at right to name it, invite people to it, etc. The sheet at left lets you create a new shared album or add selected items to a previously shared album. In the Comment field, enter a description of the goodies you’re about to share. In the resulting sheet, click New Shared Album, and then on the next sheet, name the album and invite someone to subscribe to it by entering their name, email address, or cell phone number into the To field. Click the share icon in Photos’toolbar and choose iCloud Photo Sharing. In Photos for Mac, select an album or some thumbnails. Creating a shared albumĬreating (and adding content to) shared albums is mercifully simple. The iCloud pane of Photos’ preferences holds the key to turning on various iCloud services.
