How to Share Your Family Timeline

TL;DR

• Invite relatives by email to view a private album.
• Share a single photo with an expiring private link (7, 30, or 90 days), with download and watermark controls per link.
• Add captions, dates, and voice memories so every photo keeps its story.

Digitizing your family photos is just the first step; the real magic happens when you share those memories. In PhotoScanRestore, your "family timeline" is not a social feed — it is a private sharing workflow built from albums, stories, and links you control. Nothing is public, there are no algorithms, and every original stays untouched in your own collection. This guide walks through how to invite relatives, share a single photo safely, and keep the stories attached to the pictures.

1) Invite Family to View an Album

Organise your saved and restored photos into an album for the event, the decade, or the whole archive. Then invite relatives by email: they receive a secure link and can view the album without the photos ever touching a public feed. Invites are view-only — you stay the owner of the collection.

2) Share a Single Photo with a Private Link

Some photos deserve their own moment. Create a share link for one photo and choose how it behaves:

• Expiry: links can lapse after 7, 30, or 90 days, so old links do not float around forever.
• Downloads: allow or block downloading of the full image, per link.
• Watermark: add a watermark to shared copies when you want extra care. You can see, copy, and revoke every link you have created at any time.

3) Keep the Stories with the Photos

A collection becomes truly special when it is filled with stories:

• Add captions and dates: fill in the names, places, and dates while someone still remembers them.
• Record voice memories: in the iPhone app, record a short audio clip beside a photo so the voice telling the story is kept with it.
• Organise into albums: group photos by event, year, or person to make the collection easy to navigate.

Pro Tip: Host a "family remembering call": open the album together over a video call, and write down the names and stories relatives shout out — then add them as captions while it is fresh.

4) Export and Print

When you are ready to create a physical album or a framed print, download the full-resolution restored files — no watermark on your own downloads — and take them to any printer you like. Your untouched originals stay saved alongside the restored versions.

A great shared collection starts with great scans. Make sure everyone follows the best practices in our guide to scanning photos on an iPhone so the whole collection looks its best.