An album that keeps itself up to date

Set up one album the family can look at whenever they like, and add to it for years without sending anything again.

A shared album is the answer to a question people ask over and over: how do I keep sending photographs of the grandchildren to their other grandmother without doing it every two weeks for the rest of my life?

You make one album, invite a handful of people to it, and from then on anything you drop into it appears on their phones by itself. No sending, no links, no asking whether it arrived.

Key points

• Make a shared album and invite the people who should see it
• Let them add their own photographs, so it becomes a family album
• Add to it in three presses, from anywhere
• Remove somebody at any time, quietly and immediately

What to remember

• New Shared Album, name it, invite people. Then never think about sending again.
• You add. They see. That is the entire arrangement, and it holds for years.
• People can be removed at any time, quietly, and they are not told.

Try this

Think of the one person who would most like to see more photographs of your family than they currently do. Setting this up for them takes about a minute and lasts for years.

Practice: An album that keeps itself up to date. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.

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