How to Enable Shared Albums on iPhone
Before you can share any kind of photo album, you first have to make sure you’ve turned on the shared albums feature via iCloud Photo Sharing. here’s how:
Tap Settings. Tap Photos. Move the Shared Albums slider to on/green.
How to Share an Existing Album on iPhone
If you’ve already got an album full of share-worthy photos, follow these steps to share an album with up to 100 of your closest friends:
Go to Photos. Select the Albums tab and tap the album you want to share. Tap . . . Tap Share Photos. Tap Add to Shared Album. Tap Shared Album. Tap New Shared Album (even though the album already exists on your iPhone, you have to create a shared album for others to see it). Type a name for the share album and tap Next. Enter the names, email addresses, or phone numbers of the people you want to share the album with. If they’re in your Contacts app, they’ll appear in a tappable drop-down list. Other iPhone users will be in blue. Just like with iMessage, non-Apple users appear in green. They can access a shared library even without the Photos app. Enter as many names as you want to share with and tap Next. Tap Post to share the photos and the album.
How to Create a Shared Album on iPhone
If you have a set of photos but haven’t compiled them into an album yet, you can do that before you share the album with others. Here’s what to do:
Tap Photos. Tap +. Tap New Shared Album. Give the album a name and tap Next. Enter the names, email addresses, or phone numbers of the people you want to share the album with. If they’re in your Contacts app, they’ll appear in a tappable drop-down list. Other iPhone users will be in blue. Just like with iMessage, non-Apple users appear in green. They can access a shared library even without the Photos app. When you’re done, tap Next > Create. Tap the album you just created. Tap +. Browse all of your existing photos. Tap each photo you want to add to the new shared album. When you’ve tapped all of the photos you want to add to the new album, tap Add. Add a note that will be sent to the people you’re sharing the album with, if you want, and tap Post. The shared album is created and you can see the photos in it, and add to or remove them. To control the settings for the album, check out the tips in the callout above.
