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Share the Frame app, not your photos

This code and address only open the Frame website, so your friend can set up a frame with their own album. Your photos and your album are not included.

Set up another iPad with this album

The code and the message contain your album link. Anyone who gets them can see your photos, so only send them to your own iPads or people you'd happily show the photos to.

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Or scan this code with the Camera app on the other iPad:

  1. On the other iPad, open the Camera app and point it at this code.
  2. Tap the yellow banner that appears. Safari opens with your album ready.
  3. Follow the steps there to add it to the Home Screen.

Picture Frame

Give an old iPad a second life as a photo frame that shows an iCloud Shared Album. Set it up here, on your phone or your current iPad, then send it to the old iPad with a code. No account, no app, and nothing to type on the old iPad.

How It Works

On your phone or current iPad

  1. Open Photos and go to your shared album.
  2. Tap the people icon, turn on Public Website, then tap Share Link and Copy.
  3. Paste the link below and tap Check my album, then Show the code.

On the old iPad

  1. Open the Camera app and point it at the code. Tap the yellow banner that appears.
  2. Tap the Share button in Safari, then Add to Home Screen, then Add.
  3. Set Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock to Never and leave the iPad plugged in.

Prefer to use this device as the frame? You can do that too, after you check the album.

Changing album? Paste the new album link below and tap Check my album. To put the same album on another iPad, tap Show the code afterwards and scan it with the Camera app on that iPad.

Tip: name the album after the frame, such as “Mum's Frame”. To change what the frame shows, add or remove photos in that album from your phone. Nothing to touch on the frame.

This is the comment typed when the photo was added to the shared album. Only the first comment shows. You can also switch it on or off from the menu on the frame.

Note: sleep only blanks the screen to black. It does not turn the iPad off, and the screen light stays on at the same brightness. Tap the screen at night to wake the frame for a minute.

Send it to the old iPad

Tap the button, then point the Camera app on the old iPad at the code. The album, the town and the timing all come with it.

  1. On the old iPad, open the Camera app and point it at this code.
  2. Tap the yellow banner that appears. Safari opens with your album ready.
  3. Follow the steps there to add it to the Home Screen.

Note: the code contains your album link, so don't post a photo of it online. An iPad older than iOS 11 can't scan codes. For that one, send the album link to it another way, such as by email, and paste it on that iPad.

Or use this device as the frame

Tap the Share button at the top of Safari, then Add to Home Screen, then Add.

From now on, open the frame from the new Frame icon. It fills the whole screen and remembers your album.

Then set Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock to Never and leave the iPad plugged in.

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Picture Frame web address, for setting up again from scratch:

Open it in Safari on the iPad, then add it to the Home Screen.