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OS: Windows 7 / Vista / XP; Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher) Memory: 2 GB RAM; Graphics: Video card must be 128 MB or more and with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher). DirectX: Version 9.0c; Storage: 8 GB available space.

Before you begin

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 TV HD to the latest tvOS. If you have a Windows PC, update to Windows 7 or later and download iCloud for Windows.
Set up iCloud on all of your devices.
Make sure that you’re signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID on all of your devices that you want to use with Shared Albums.

Turn on Shared Albums

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos, then turn on Shared Albums.
On your Mac, open the Photos app. From the menu bar at the top of the screen, choose Photos > Preferences. Click the iCloud tab, then select Shared Albums.
On your Apple TV, go 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. Learn more about sharing albums with iCloud for Windows.

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If you'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

Create a new shared album

Go to the Albums tab and tap the Add button .
Tap New Shared Album.
Give the shared album a name, then tap Next.
Choose people to invite from your contacts, or type an email address or iMessage phone number.
Tap Create.

Delete a shared album

Open the shared album.
Go to the People tab.
Tap Delete Shared Album.

If you're looking at your list of shared albums, you can also tap Edit, then tap the Delete button to delete a shared album.

When you 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 you save any photos that you want to keep.

Invite more people

In Albums, select a shared album that you created.
Go to the People tab.
Tap Invite People.
Enter the names of people that you want to share this album with.
Tap Add.

You can even share albums with friends and family who don't use iCloud. Just open 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 up-to-date web browser.

Remove a subscriber

Open the shared album.
Go to the People tab.
Select the subscriber that you want to remove.
Tap Remove Subscriber at the bottom of the screen.

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

Add photos and videos

In the Photos tab or from within an album, tap Select and then select the photos and videos that you want to share.
Tap the Share button , then tap Add to Shared Album .
Choose the album where you want to share your photos. Then tap Post.

If you have a shared album open, you can also 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 sure that Subscribers Can Post is turned on so that they can add photos and videos too. Just go to the shared album's People tab.

Delete from a Shared Album

Open the shared album.
Tap the photo or video.
Tap the Trash button .
Tap Delete Photo.

If you're the owner of a shared album, you can delete any 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 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 it.

Save photos and videos from a shared album

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

Tap the photo or video.
Tap the Share button .
Tap Save Image or Save Video.

Use Shared Albums on your Mac

Create a new Shared Album

In the sidebar, click the Add button next to Shared Albums.
Type the email addresses of people you want to share the album with. Click the Add button to select contacts from iCloud.
Click Create.

Delete a shared album

Open the shared album.
Click the People button in the toolbar.
Click Delete Shared Album.

Invite more people

Select a shared album that you created under Shared in the sidebar.
Click the People button in the toolbar.
In the Invite People field, type the email addresses of people that you want to share this album with. Click the Add button to choose people to invite from your contacts.

You can even share albums with friends and family who don't use iCloud. Just open a shared album that you created, click the People button in the toolbar, and turn on Public Website. Your photos publish to a website that anyone can see in an up-to-date web browser.

Remove a subscriber

Open the shared album.
Click the People button in the toolbar.
Select the subscriber that you want to remove.
Click Remove Subscriber.

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

Add photos and videos

Select the photos and videos that you want to share.
Click the Share button in the toolbar, then select Shared Albums.
Choose the album where you want to share your photos.

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If you have a shared album open, you can also click “Add photos and videos” to select photos and videos to add. You can also simply drag photos from your library directly into the shared album in the sidebar.

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

Delete from a shared album

Open the shared album.
Select the photo or video.
Control-click, then click Delete Photo. Click Delete.

If you have a shared album open, you can also select a photo and press the Delete key to delete it from the shared album.

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 it.

Save photos and videos from a shared album

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

Select the photo and video that you want to save.
Control-click, 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 also support special formats that you capture with your iPhone, like slo-mo, time-lapse, Live Photos, and Memory videos. When shared, photos are reduced to 2048 pixels on the long edge, except panoramic photos, which can be up to 5400 pixels wide. You can share GIFs that are 100MB or smaller.

Shared Albums support 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.

* You can't upload RAW photos to Shared Albums on your Windows PC.

Shared Albums upload a copy of your data. Downloaded content may not contain 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, you need to delete some photos or videos before adding 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 you delete the shared album completely.

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

Privacy is something we often take for granted until it is gone. Ask yourself this: Do you have photos that you would not want someone else to see? Most people would answer yes, which makes it all the more surprising that more of us don’t take the necessary measures to ensure that our private pictures are secure.

Keep your personal photos private on macOS

Today we’re going to show you how easy it is to hide pictures on a Mac by looking at some of the most popular and useful tips for keeping your pictures locked away.
We begin with hands-on tips and build up to the photo hiding app, Hider 2.

How to hide picture folders manually

There are a few manual ways to keep your private photos away from someone who has access to your Mac. These methods may not provide the full privacy solution but, combined, may give you enough security to feel comfortable.

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We’re going to skip obvious and time-consuming options like renaming and moving folders so that they don’t sound like they contain anything “interesting.”

Instead, let’s begin with the macOS Photos app, which has the functionality to “hide” photos, although it has a very different idea of what “hidden” truly means. When you select photos, simply right click and choose to hide them. Now they will not appear in your photostream.

While this may be sufficient if you’re showing someone your photo collection, it will not stop someone who has access to your Mac. To view these items and unhide them, all you have to do is go to View > Show Hidden Photo Album.

Very convenient for you. But unfortunately also very convenient for someone else using your system.

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A hidden feature to hide pictures

Many people don’t know that it is possible to create multiple photo libraries on one system. Simply hold the Option key (alt) when launching the Photos app. This will launch a dialog asking you to select from a list of photo libraries or create a new library. This new secret library can even be set up on an external drive.

All you have to do is hold the Option key when launching the app and select it from the list to choose this library. It won’t stop a dedicated hacker, but it will prevent kids and co-workers from stumbling across photos they shouldn’t see.

Or lock photos by encrypting everything!

Another option is the macOS app, FileVault 2. The solution offered by this app is very limited but maybe enough considering your personal photo privacy needs.

FileVault 2 will encrypt your entire system drive, including photos, but this will only safeguard your system when your Mac is turned off. As soon as it turns on and you enter your password, your drive is unencrypted.

What this means is that co-workers and hackers could still access your private photos after you’ve logged in, so it’s mainly a security feature to prevent someone who has stolen your Macbook from getting at your data.

Another restriction is that you can only encrypt your system drive, so if you have photos on another internal or external drive, FileVault will not be of much help.

Here’s how to turn FileVault on:

Log in to macOS with an account that has admin privileges.
Navigate to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > FileVault
Click the padlock in the lower-left corner and enter your admin password.
Turn on FileVault
Copy the recovery key and put it somewhere safe
Your system will now reboot, and once you have signed in, your drive will encrypt for the first time.

Note – The first encryption could take hours. You can use your Mac during the process.

Better yet, get specialized hide photo help

FileVault will encrypt your entire disk, but what if you just want to hide a few specific pictures or hide a single gallery? macOS may have some useful tools to help lock away your private pictures, but they can't compare to an app developed specifically for this purpose. Hider 2 is an actual photo hider app, and it ticks all the boxes - ease of use, functionality, integration, and powerful security.

Once installed, Hider 2 integrates with macOS to such a degree that it feels like it was always a part of your system. Now, hiding photos, hiding galleries, even hiding other types of files becomes as easy as dragging whatever you want to hide to the Hider 2 app icon or right-clicking on files to add them that way. Compared to the effort needed for the manual methods, this is simply the quickest way to hide photos.

It’s not just about ease of use as the app offers a high level of security thanks to AES - 256 encryption, which ensures that not only are your photos hidden from prying eyes, they also are safe and secure from dedicated hackers.

What does it take to keep your images safe?

Once you hide pictures, photo galleries, and anything else you want to secure, you can group and organize your files in the app to make finding what you need as easy as can be. Hider 2 is even integrated with Finder so that tag searches on your photos will also work.

Hider 2 essentially operates as a secret, secure room. When you’re in the room, you can work as easily as you would with photos and files that aren’t hidden, and when you’re done, you simply close the door by toggling the app off. At that point, everything inside that room disappears until you enter the app with your password again.

Having private pictures is natural, so the solution for hiding them should be just as natural. While macOS provides a smattering of picture hiding and encrypting options, they just can’t compare to a dedicated photo hide app like Hider 2.

Try it today to take control of your private life before someone else does.