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shared album as public website privacy

I want to share a photo album with non-iPhone users. The language from Apple is not clear. "Public website" and "anyone can access"...are my albums private to only those I invite or can anyone with the link access?

Posted on Apr 14, 2023 8:03 AM

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Posted on Apr 14, 2023 10:31 AM

If you share an album as a public website, everyone who knows the link can access it. So you should only share the link with people you can trust to keep the URL secret. And delete the album again, once all people you invited to the album have saved the photos.


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Apr 14, 2023 10:31 AM in response to ah!

If you share an album as a public website, everyone who knows the link can access it. So you should only share the link with people you can trust to keep the URL secret. And delete the album again, once all people you invited to the album have saved the photos.


Apr 15, 2023 12:08 AM in response to ah!

Just do not send the URL to people who like to gossip or cannot keep a secret, and never share any photo digitally that is very personal. And do not share photos of other people with any third person without their permission. That is independent of the method of sharing.


To share confidential photos selectively, you could mail them. But even then you need to be able to trust the recipients, that they will not distribute the photos further without your permission. You may want to tag your important photos with a copyright notice, for example a watermark.

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