All you need to know about shared albums iCloud

Recently, for the first time tasted the general albums I realized in iCloud, it's incredibly cool thing. The ability to share photos in one click with people who are in the hundreds, and even thousands of kilometers away from you - it's great. Below I will discuss all the features of this function.

What is the function

Sharing photos iCloud allows you to create a shared album, sharing them any photos and videos. And even if you created the album, people with whom you've shared can also fill to photos and videos.

Photos and videos you've uploaded to a shared album is not stored on other users devices and are in the cloud. That is, if another user wants to watch a video in the album, he will have to wait for it to boot. Of course, with good internet speed is very fast.

All Activity on the album looks like a news feed. It displays information about what the user is connected to the album, which files have been filled, and so on. It is possible to put the Huskies and comments.

How to turn it on

First you need to go to Settings - iCloud - Photo and switch to an active state slider "Sharing photos iCloud». After that, the application "Photo" will be a separate tab. Here you can create new albums, add their photos and videos, as well as invite them to users. To do this, you need only know the user's email address.

restrictions

Very few restrictions. First, view the albums can be not only on iOS devices. It supported as Mac, Windows, and if you enable the "Open Web Site", users will be able to view the album even in the browser.

The great thing about shared albums is that they do not take up space in your iCloud. The number of files in a single album can not exceed 5000, the video should not be longer than 5 minutes, the image in the resolution of not more than 2048 pixels. That is, if the photos will be more in the next boot, they reduced to the desired size.

applications

I can think of many uses for this feature. Most simple - to share photos with loved ones who are far away. You can also create a shared album with friends and throw off your photos to the general meetings or funny pictures.

Another example: I'm learning to play the drum kit. If my teacher was at a distance, I could throw off his video of his game, and he could remotely her comment. The same applies to any other occupation, if you learn something new, your teacher is not necessarily close, he will be able to make changes in your training, even at a distance. Of course, this can not be compared with the personal training, but not the worst option.

In the end, I'm sure you'll be able to come up with new uses of this function. I advise you to try, suddenly you underestimated her as well as I do.