If I delete a picture in my photos will it also delete from the shared album?

If I delete a picture in my photos will it also delete from the shared album?

iPhone 12, iOS 16

Posted on Jul 13, 2023 9:35 AM

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Posted on Jul 13, 2023 10:57 AM

The shared albums are holding their own copies of the shared photos. When you delete a photo from your Photos Library the shared version will remain in the Shared album. But the photos in the Shared albums may be in a lesser quality than the originals in Photos. All shared photos are optimized for sharing and will be scaled down to 20498 pixels at the longest edge and metadata will be removed for privacy reasons.

I recommend to save the original somewhere before you remove it from Photos if the image or video is important to you.


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Jul 13, 2023 10:57 AM in response to Erin_emery

The shared albums are holding their own copies of the shared photos. When you delete a photo from your Photos Library the shared version will remain in the Shared album. But the photos in the Shared albums may be in a lesser quality than the originals in Photos. All shared photos are optimized for sharing and will be scaled down to 20498 pixels at the longest edge and metadata will be removed for privacy reasons.

I recommend to save the original somewhere before you remove it from Photos if the image or video is important to you.


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