Sharing shows an album to a group. The album stays yours throughout.
You choose what that circle sees before anything is shared#
Sharing is two steps. First pick the album; albums another circle already sees say so, for example "Shared with Friends". Then Keepr shows a strip of what the circle will get and asks one thing, What Family sees: All 85 photos and videos, or Leave some out. Photos you've hidden from everyone stay hidden either way, and the first choice says so.
If no other circle sees the album yet, "All" is already chosen and Share is one tap. If one does, nothing is chosen and Share waits until you pick, because that is the moment a second album would otherwise get made.
Leaving some photos out for that circle#
Tap Leave some out. Every photo in the album starts ticked; untick the ones this circle shouldn't see. To change a run of photos at once, tap one and then hold another. Back in the share step the choice reads, for example, "80 of 85, 5 left out for Family", with those photos shown dimmed so you can check them before you share; tap it to change them. The ones you leave out stay in the album for you and for every other circle it's shared with. You don't need a separate album for each circle.
One thing to know: photos you add to the album later are seen by every circle it's shared with, unless you leave them out too.
What you choose when you share#
In album settings, the Circle Sharing tab lists the circles the album is shared with, each with one line saying what it sees and what it allows, and the circles it isn't shared with yet, each with a Share button. Tapping a shared circle opens the same sheet as sharing: change what it sees or its permissions there, and everything saves as you change it. Stop sharing is in that sheet too.
Three permissions, set per share, so the same album can behave differently for different circles:
| Permission | Default | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Can add photos | Off | Whether circle members can upload into the album |
| Can download | On | Whether they can save copies of its photos |
| Can share onward | On | Whether they can share its photos outside Keepr |
The defaults are deliberate: showing people an album shouldn't quietly let them add to it, but it also shouldn't stop a grandparent saving a picture of their grandchild.
Turning uploads on#
Worth doing for the albums that are genuinely collective — a wedding where everyone has photos, a holiday several families were on. It's the difference between an album you maintain and one that fills itself.
Anyone who adds a photo keeps ownership of it. Whose storage it uses depends on the album: in a personal album where everyone pays for what they upload, it uses their storage; in an album whose creator pays for everything, it counts toward yours; in a Family Hub album, toward the hub's. How uploads work, under Allow Uploads when you share, says which one applies.
Who can share#
The album's owner, into circles they're a member of. You can't share someone else's album, and you can't share into a circle you don't belong to.
Sharing with several circles#
An album can go to as many circles as you like, each with its own permissions. The grandparents might get view-only; the siblings might be able to add.
If one photo in it isn't for all of them, leave it out when you share with that circle, or hide it from particular circles at any time later, without splitting the album. The album's "Who can see this album" panel shows how many are left out for each circle.
Stopping#
You can stop sharing at any time. That circle stops seeing the album immediately.
Nothing is deleted. Photos its members added while it was shared stay in the album — they were added to your album, and removing the circle's access doesn't remove their pictures. If you want those out too, that's a separate decision, and worth thinking about: they're someone else's photographs.
Sharing versus moving to a hub#
If several people should co-own an archive rather than just see it, a Family Hub is the better fit — shared storage, everyone adding, nobody's personal allowance carrying it.
Sharing is right when the album is yours and you want people to see it. Moving is right when it belongs to the household. See Moving an album into a hub.