Who can see and comment on your album

Your album, your rules

Every album has privacy settings that let you decide who can see your album and who can leave messages on it. You can change these any time from your album settings.

Who can view your album?

• Private. The people you invite and active members of your album's circle can see it once it is published. Active members of the circle count as people you invite, so they can comment and post wherever your invitees can. See Invite family and friends to an album. Best for family-only memorials, baby albums, or private celebrations.
• Public. Anyone with the link can view the album. Best for weddings, graduations, or retirement parties where you want to share widely.

Who can add messages?

• No one. Your album becomes view-only. People can look through it but can't leave a message.
• People you invite. Only the people you invited can comment or post.
• Invitees and approved guests. Anyone signed in can ask to join in, and you approve them one by one.
• Anyone signed in. Any signed-in visitor can leave a message. Everything still runs through our content filters, and you can remove anything you don't like.

Your Guest Book

If you turn on the Guest Book, visitors can post to it like a guest book, leaving short messages that everyone can read. The Guest Book has its own settings for who can post and who can comment, so you can keep it as open or as private as you like.

Review before it appears

Turn on Review posts and comments before they appear and new messages will wait for your approval before anyone else sees them. Great for memorials or any event where you want to keep things gentle.

Private albums keep things simple

If your album is set to Private, commenting and Guest Book options are automatically limited to your invitees, who include the active members of your album's circle — since nobody else can see the album, they can't leave messages on it either.

Confirming your choice at publish time

When you publish your album, we ask you to double-check your privacy setting one more time — so you're sure it's what you want before your link goes live. You can change this at any time from your album settings.

Tip: You can always start private and open things up later if you want to share more widely.