How to Share a Photo Album on Your iPad With Your Friends

This article explains how to share a photo album on your iPad with your friends or family members using the Shared Album option in the Photos app. Instructions are for iOS 12 and later.

How to Share a Photo Album on Your iPad With Friends

Apple lets you back up your photos to the cloud and download pictures across all of your devices on iCloud. You can also share entire photo albums among friends and family. After you share an album on your iPad, friends and family can "like" individual photos, comment on them, and add their photos and videos to the album you created.

It doesn't take long to create a shared album, but to share your photos, you first need to turn on the Shared Albums option in Settings on your iPad. Then you make the shared albums in the Photos app.

1. Launch the Settings app.

2. Scroll down and choose Photos from the left menu.

3. Tap the slider next to Shared Albums to On/Green.

   Exit the Settings app and return to the Home screen.

4. Launch the Photos App.

5. Tap Photos.

   You can also tap Albums to choose an album you've already made on your iPad.

6. Tap the Select button in the upper-right corner of the screen.

7. After you choose Select, choose photos to share by tapping on them. A blue check mark next to a picture means you've selected it.

   You can add as many photos as you want to your shared album.

8. When you have finished making your selections, tap the Share button.

9. Tap Shared Albums.

   You can still add or remove selected photos from this screen. Swipe right to find more pictures to add, and tap to select them.

10. Name the album and tap Next.

11. On the next screen, you indicate who to share the album with. Type an email address into the box or press the + sign to choose from your Contacts. When you're done, tap Create.

    Only people with iCloud accounts are able to view shared albums.

12. Add a comment if you want and then tap Post.

The people you shared the album with can see its contents, comment on them, and add to it.

How to Make Another Shared Album

After you create a shared album, any pictures you add this way go into it, but you can also manage multiple collections. Here's how to make a another album.

1. Select the photos you want to add as outlined above.

2. Tap Shared Album at the bottom of the window that appears after you tap Shared Albums in the Share menu.

3. Tap New Shared Album.

4. Name the new album and choose the people to share it with.

What Else Can You Do With the iPad's Shared Photos?

Your shared albums appear on your Albums tab in the Photos app. You can see both the ones you make and ones that other people share with you. Everyone with access to a shared album can change or view it in several ways, including:

• Adding new photos by scrolling to the end and tapping the blank photo with the plus sign. When you are finished selecting photos to add, tap the Done button in the upper-right corner.
• Add new people to the group by tapping the People button at the upper-right corner while viewing a shared album. You can also turn on or off the ability for subscribers (people you've added) to post photos or video.
• Make a public website for the album so that friends can view the photos in a web browser on their computer.
• Like an individual photo by tapping it to expand it on the screen and tapping the Like button in the lower-right corner of the display. It looks like a thumbs-up symbol.
• Add a note or comment to a photo by tapping Add a comment at the bottom of the screen.