"To share this album" means to pass along or distribute the album to others, so they can also listen to it and enjoy its contents.
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You can easily
share albums with friends from there if you aren't a fan of social media, and you can pick up your order at Target if you like.
Personally, I haven't
shared an album of 24 photos of, well, anything recently, which makes this trend even more confusing.
You can
share the album with individual contacts, send the shared URL to your messaging app of choice, email a link to the album, and so on.
Google, which bought Bump less than four months ago, announced this week that, effective Jan. 31, it will discontinue Bump and another app, Flock, a photo app that
creates shared albums from friends who are at the same event.
While you will lose comments and collaborative photos if you
stop sharing an album, it is nice that you can share it again with a brand new URL if you need to, instead of deleting the entire album and rebuilding it from scratch.
To create your
first shared album, fire up your Google Photos app and click the menu icon (three horizontal lines) in the search bar.
The Google
Photos shared album feature we heard about back in September is finally ready to go live on Android, iOS, and the web.
After you select an image and tap the share button, you can select Shared album and then
New shared album to create a shareable album.
Windows and Android users can still
see shared albums if they create an Apple ID and sign in to iCloud using the web interface, but it's a massive inconvenience.
The stand - alone photo hosting service offers unlimited storage, excellent image search and fresh features like animated gifs and
even shared albums.
«Instead of sharing a shelter animal 2,000 miles away... go to the shelter page for your local community and
share their album of adoptables,» Clarkson advises.
One of our favorite things about the sharing toggling in Google Photos is that if you
stop sharing an album and then share it again later, the album is given a brand new, randomized URL (unlike the static URL that is permanently assigned to albums when you share an iCloud photo album).
While it defaults to the last album you used, you can tap «Shared Album» to choose a
new shared album, if need be.
On Twitter, she commented, «So excited to
share this album.
She curated the first exhibition exploring the phenomenon of crowdsourcing in art (Phantom Captain, apexart, New York, 2006), and, with artist Jon Rubin, organized an exhibit in which worldwide participants created a photo -
sharing album of their imaginings on Tehran (Never Been to Tehran, Parkinggallery, Tehran, Iran, 2008).
The shared album has some social features as well.
So, it's in your best interest to keep sensitive photos out of
shared albums and only share with people you trust.
While the chances of someone guessing the long and obfuscated URL that points back to
your shared album is minuscule, that doesn't prevent the people with whom you share the URL from sharing it with others.
You'll see a list of
all your shared albums (in our example, there's just the «Pets» album we created in the last section).
If
you share your album with three of your friends, you're not giving their three Google accounts permission to access the shared album.
When
you share an album, you can't really limit who can see it.
In the menu, click «Shared» to access
your shared album directory.
Google Photos creates a custom (and obfuscated) URL for each album and
you share the album by sending people that URL.
You can grab a copy of the sharing link, see who's been invited to view the album, toggle collaboration and commenting on or off, and — naturally — stop
sharing the album.
Sharing albums is now a lot easier with the Google Photos app, too.
If
you share an album of an event with your friends on Google Photos, they'll automatically get pushed photos to share by Google's AI.
Google Photos (
shared album), Google +, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and other installed apps such as Instagram.
Additionally, with more control over sharing, you can
share albums or selected songs with specified members.
Select any of
your shared albums.
It captures the same experience —
shared albums, collaborative album building, shared comments, and more — in a way that is totally cross-platform.
They can not add photos to
shared albums, leave comments, or otherwise interact with the album like your friends with iPhones can.
All
the shared album URLs look like this:
At the top, you'll see your Apple - product - using - friends because their Apple accounts are associated with
the shared album.
If you don't have
any shared albums yet, hit up that tutorial and share an album before proceeding.
We've blurred the string in this screenshot because, as we noted above, each URL is permanently associated with
the shared album and doesn't change unless you delete the album entirely and start over.
You can also search by emoji, change which folders sync up from your mobile devices, and create
a shared album so that a group of friends or family can all upload photos to a common location.
To manage
a shared album, open the menu, then tap Shared, and select whichever album you want.
In addition to adding photos from within
the shared album, as we just did, you can also send photos from anywhere else in iOS (your regular photo roll, other camera apps, etc.) using the iOS Share Sheet function.
You can do so by opening
any shared album and clicking on «People» at the bottom, like so.
You can then sync and share these grouped photos to your friends and family, and they can choose to sync their photos to add to that moment, quickly creating
a shared album.
That means
a shared album with photos from all the people that were there.
You can simply view
your shared albums, or only reach back to the past 1,000 photos.