Finding the balance between sharing moments of your life with your online circle and maintaining your personal and data privacy can be challenging. Fortunately, Apple has settings to help you with that. Here's how to create a single album to post to social media for easy and private sharing.

Why You'll Love This Tip

Share photos while protecting your privacy.
Give an app access to one single album and keep the rest of your photos private.
Save yourself time scrolling through your Photo Library by putting all of your share-worthy photos in one place.

How to Share a Single Album with an App

System Requirements

This tip was performed on an iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 18.5. Find out how to update to the latest version of iOS.

Did you know you can grant an app access to only certain photos? That means, if there are photos you want to share but you don't want to give an app access to your entire Photo Library, you can pick and choose which photos allow that app to access. This is an excellent security feature, but scrolling through your entire camera roll to individually select photos to share with that app can be tedious and time consuming, especially if you want to share certain photos across several apps.

Creating an album specifically for social media sharing can be a great way to get all your shareable pictures in one place so you don't have to scroll through your photos when trying to decide what to post and grant an app access to. For more great ways to get the most out of your iPhone while keeping the important things private, check out our free Tip of the Day newsletter.

Open your Photos app.
Scroll down and tap Albums.
Tap Create.
Tap New Album.
Enter your album name.
Tap Add Photos.
Select the photos you want to allow apps to access.
Tap Add.
Tap Create.
Now, open your Settings app.
Tap Privacy & Security.
Tap Photos.
Tap on an app to change its photo access.
Tap Limited Access.
Tap Collections.
Tap on the album you created to share.
Select all or some of the photos.
Tap Done.
Tap Edit Selected Photos to change the photos you want to share with the app.

You can continually add photos to this album, though you'll have to go back into Settings to allow access to the new photos as you add them. It takes a bit of work, but is worth it to maintain your privacy.