
Instructions for Setting Up Your
Photo-Phoenix Album
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Set Up Your Album
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Share Album with Family & Friends
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Family & Friends Upload to Your Shared Album
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Save New Photos
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Remove Access​
Steps
1. Set Up Your Album
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In your Photo settings on your phone, make sure that “Shared Albums” is turned on.
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Open the Photos app on your Mac.
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Create a new shared album:
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Scroll down to “Sharing” and click the + sign to create a New Shared Album.
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Name the album (I named ours “Our Photo-Phoenix Album”)
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2. Share Album
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Click on the 3 dots on the upper right hand corner of the shared album.
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Go to “Shared Album Details”
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Scroll to “Participants” and click the + sign on the bottom that says “Invite”
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When prompted, add the person from your contacts, a cellphone number, or an email address, and your iPhoto app will automatically invite the person. This might take several minutes.
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When the person accepts the invitation, you will receive a notification.
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When the person uploads photos to the Photo-Phoenix album, you will also received notifications.
3. Photo Upload
Your people will:
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Receive your invitation to subscribe to the Shared Album.
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Open the shared album link sent by you.
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Select photos in their own photo library to upload by tapping the "Add Photos" button. If the photos are physical, they can take a good quality iPhone photo of them to upload.
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Upload photos directly from their iPhone/iPad or Mac.
4. Save Photos
To save the images to your Photo Library:
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Click "Select" in the upper right.
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Select the images you want to save.
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Click the Share icon on the lower left, scroll to "Save Images" and Click.
5. Remove Access
To remove a Subscriber when you no longer wish for them to have access to your album:
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Click on their name.
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Scroll down to Remove Subscriber.