Undoubtedly, photographs are really important to immortalize moments we live with friends and family at special events or trips. In these cases to share the photos with our closest ones we can do it through social networks or send them through some messaging service. But if everyone involved has an iPhone there are simpler ways to do it.
The iCloud photo library allows us to create albums that we can share with other people from our iPhone, iPad or Mac in a really simple way. This way we save having to download them from the photo library and drag them back to the courier service. In addition to this way we get that the photographs are not lost in the endless conversations that we can have with someone staying all within the ecosystem.
Create a shared album on iPhone
When we create an iCloud album, all the people we put into it will be able to add new photographs and make any kind of change . It’s as if in Google Drive we share a folder between several people and all of them can make changes. As we add photos, notifications will be skipped to the members of the album and we can also like specific photos and add specific comments as if it were Facebook or Instagram.
To create a shared album simply follow the following steps:
- Open the Photos application.
- At the bottom we must select the ‘albums’ tab.
- To create a new shared album, we must press the ‘+’ icon in the upper left corner.
- We will select the option ‘New shared album’.
- We will introduce the album title and then the people with whom we want to share the album. It is important to note that we must specify the Apple ID of that user.
Once this is done, the people we choose will receive a notification and the album will appear in this same Photos tab in the section of ‘shared albums’. Now we simply have to add photographs, being able to transfer them from the photo library itself. Simply select the share icon in the lower left and then select ‘Add to shared album’. In this way we will be able to nourish the album with photos although we can also do it in a traditional way by entering the album itself and at the end select the box with a ‘+’ icon and we can search our photo library for the photo we want to add.
Create a shared album on Mac
You can also create this type of album on the Mac. We will simply have to follow the following steps:
- Access the Photos application.
- On the left side we will see an option called «shared albums» and when passing over it we will see the ‘+’ icon next to it.
- By pressing we can already include the title and Apple IDs of the people who will participate in it.
