How to Share Photos Privately
Stop leaving copies of personal photos on platform servers. Here’s how to send pictures privately and at full quality. Files are being removed from our storage when the room is closed (a recoverable copy may be kept for up to 7 days).
Photos are the most personal files most of us send — and the ones we’re most careless with. We drop them into chat apps and shared albums that quietly keep a copy forever. Here’s how to share pictures with one person, without leaving them in a chat app or a shared album.
Where your photos actually end up
Send a photo through a typical messaging app or upload it to a shared album, and you’ve created a copy that lives on that company’s servers — often re-compressed, frequently scanned, and kept long after the moment has passed. For a casual snapshot that may be fine. For anything personal — family photos, documents you photographed, pictures you simply don’t want sitting in a platform’s data center — it’s more exposure than you signed up for.
How to share photos privately
- Open a room in your browser.
- Drop in the photos you want to share.
- Give the short code to the person you’re sharing with.
- They open it and the pictures land on their device. When a room is closed, its files and room details are being removed from our storage. Our cloud provider may keep a recoverable copy for up to 7 days.
No shared album to manage, no account, and no copy left sitting in a feed.
Good for
- Family photos you’d rather not park in yet another cloud account.
- Pictures of documents, receipts, or IDs you’re sending to one person.
- Full-resolution shots for someone who needs the originals, not previews.
Moving them off your phone first? See phone to computer transfers. Want the privacy reasoning in full? Read how to send files securely.