iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customize and use the homepage tiles
- Apple Invites
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
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- Photos on iCloud.com overview
- View your photos and videos
- Browse photos or videos by date
- Hide your photos and videos
- Upload and download photos
- Add or edit a title, caption, or other metadata
- Organize photos and videos
- Add photos and videos to Favorites
- Play a slideshow of photos
- Delete and recover photos and videos
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows device
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
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Share photos and videos with an iCloud Link on iCloud.com
You can share photos and videos in Photos on iCloud.com with an iCloud Link (not available in all countries or regions). Anyone with the link can view them.
Note: You can only share photos and videos in your personal library on iCloud.com. To share an item in an iCloud Shared Photo Library, use the Photos app on a device with iOS 16.1, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, or later.
Share photos and videos with an iCloud Link
Go to icloud.com/photos, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Select the photos or videos you want to share.
Click
, choose Share, then do one of the following:
Choose Email Link, enter one or more email addresses in the To field, then click
.
Choose Copy Link, then click Copy Link. Share the link with friends. For example, you can paste it into a Messages conversation.
Stop sharing an iCloud Link
iCloud Links automatically expire after 30 days, but you can stop sharing them sooner.
Go to icloud.com/photos, then sign in to your Apple Account (if necessary).
Click iCloud Links in the sidebar.
Click the photo collection you want to stop sharing.
Click
, choose Stop Sharing, then click Stop Sharing.
Note: If you want to make a shared album, see Create and manage shared albums in Photos on iCloud.com.
Learn how to use iCloud Photos on iCloud.com on a phone or tablet.