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How to ready iCloud Photo Sharing on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and PC

iCloud Photograph Sharing is like having your own individual Instagram. Here's how to go information technology prepare it upward and so you can share with friends and family.

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Apple tree's iCloud service includes iCloud Photos, a free service Apple offers for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and PC. It lets you create shared albums that your friends, family unit, and co-workers can access, annotate upon, and even add their ain images and video. By default, iCloud Photos uses iCloud accounts, only you can also create a private iCloud.com website for non-iCloud users to view photos and video.

Why apply a shared album instead of a service like Instagram or Facebook? iCloud's albums allow for greater privacy than both services — iCloud Photos is encrypted, and your activities are only shared with the people you've invited to the group instead of the full general public.

Here'southward how to set up iCloud Photos!

How to enable iCloud Photos on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC

How to disable iCloud Photos on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC

Navigating iCloud Photos

How to enable iCloud Photo Sharing

When you lot enable iCloud Photograph Sharing, you tin create and share albums with other people that also have an iCloud account. You can likewise be invited to share someone else'southward album after you lot've enabled it.

How to enable iCloud Photo Sharing on iPhone and iPad

Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.

Curlicue down and tap Photos.

Toggle the Shared Albums switch on.

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How to enable iCloud Photos on your Mac

Launch the Photos app on your Mac.

Select Photos from the app carte du jour in the upper left corner.

Select Preferences from the drib downwardly carte.

Select the iCloud tab.

Tick the box for iCloud Photos.

Tick the box for Shared Albums.

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How to enable iCloud Photos on your PC

On your PC, open the Start Menu and navigate to the iCloud folder.

Open the iCloud application.

In the box that pops up, click on the Options push side by side to Photos.

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Check the box labeled iCloud Photos to enable this pick.

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How to disable iCloud Photos

Want to turn off iCloud'southward photo sharing features? You need only switch off the option in settings.

How to disable iCloud Photos on iPhone and iPad

Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.

Curl downwards and tap Photos.

Toggle the Shared Albums switch off.

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How to disable iCloud Photos on your Mac

Launch the Photos app on your Mac.

Select Photos from the app bill of fare in the upper left corner.

Select Preferences from the drop down carte du jour.

Select the iCloud tab.

Untick the box for Shared Albums.

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How to disable iCloud Photos on your PC

On your PC, open the Start Menu and navigate to the iCloud folder.

Open the iCloud application.

In the box that pops upwards, click on the Options button next to Photos.

Uncheck the box labeled iCloud Photos.

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Navigating iCloud Photos

There are a lot of ways yous tin can organize, view, and interact with shared albums in iCloud Photos. Here are some things you can practise:

How to view and create shared photograph albums on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC

How to like, comment, and add together subscribers to shared photo albums on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC

Any questions?

Practice you accept any questions about how to fix iCloud Photos? Put them in the comments and we'll help you out.

Updated August 2022 Updated to reflect the latest on iCloud Photos.

Lory Gil

Lory is a renaissance woman, writing news, reviews, and how-to guides for iMore. She besides fancies herself a bit of a rock star in her town and spends likewise much fourth dimension reading comic books. If she's not typing abroad at her keyboard, you tin probably find her at Disneyland or watching Star Wars (or both).