iOS 15 Shared with You — what it is and how it works

The Shared with Y'all feature in iOS fifteen brings some organizational order to the chaos of all your photos, links and other content people are sending to you lot via Messages. Now, when someone texts you a photo or sends you the link to a website, they'll nevertheless appear in Letters, but at that place'due south also a special Shared with You section in each relevant app that collects all those shared items.

The idea behind Shared with You is that you don't ever have the fourth dimension right and so and at that place to tap on a website link or relish a photograph. Rather than take you whorl dorsum in a conversation to notice that shared content, Shared with You collects it in an like shooting fish in a barrel-to-discover place. Even amend, links inside the Shared with You section permit you to reply back to the sender, without having to bound back into Messages. Information technology'due south very user-friendly.

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But because Shared with You is new, it takes a fiddling getting used to, specially since the commenting feature isn't readily apparent. Here's a close look at how Shared With You works and how you lot tin can use it to streamline your texting.

Shared with Yous isn't tied to whatsoever ane app. Rather, it's a section that appears in multiple apps — Photos, Safari, News, Podcasts, Music and Boob tube all support Shared with You. Whenever someone shares content that's relevant to that particular app, it will appear in that apps's Shared with You section. (In the case of links to news articles from the web, if that article is as well available through the Apple News app, the link appears in the Shared with You sections of both that app as well as Safari.

Where Shared with You pops up differs from app to app. Here's a rundown of where to find it.

Shared with You appears in different iOS 15 apps like Safari, Photos and TV — (Image credit: Tom'due south Guide)

Photos: Shared with Yous lives in the For You tab of the Photos app. You'll need to gyre downwardly to observe it on your iPhone, equally it's located below Memories and Featured Photos.

Safari: Y'all'll find Shared with You websites and links on the offset page of Safari. (That'south the folio that appears when you hit the plus button on the location bar to open upwardly a new browser tab.) Shared with You is just beneath your drove of Frequently Visited sites.

News: Shared with You content lives on the main News tab. If you're having problem finding it — at that place'south a lot to whorl through on News — you can spring to the Following tab, where in that location'southward a link to Shared with You stories.

Podcasts: The new look Podcasts app places Shared with You content just below the Upwardly Next section that contains the latest episodes of your favorite podcasts.

TV: Shared with Yous links to TV shows and movies are on the Lookout Now of Apple tree's Telly app, though you'll take to scroll a means to find them. I found the Shared with Yous section just below the Trending section, which is already located well below promoted and curated content from Apple.

Music: The Listen At present tab hosts Shared with You lot songs and playlists.

As noted above, when you viewing Shared with Yous content in whatsoever of the apps that back up it, you'll exist able to reply from inside that app without having to launch Letters. Here's how the feature works, using Photos as an case.

1. From the Shared with Yous section, tap the photo you desire to comment on.

Shared with You lets you comment on photos from within the Photos app — (Paradigm credit: Tom's Guide)

2. The name of person who shared the photo appears at the summit of the screen. Tap the name.

3. A Messages-like interface appears where you tin can type out a answer. Send it similar you would any other bulletin.

Shared With You replies appear in Messages — (Paradigm credit: Tom's Guide)

That reply will then appear in the Messages chat as if you had sent information technology from within the app.

While we focused on Photos in that example, the process works the same in the Shared with Yous section of other apps. In Safari, for example, the name of the person who shared a web page with you appears under that page'due south thumbnail. Tap the name, and you'll go the aforementioned Messages interface for replying or commenting on the commodity.

Shared with You also lets you comment from Safari for replies in Messages — (Image credit: Tom'south Guide)

How to pin Shared with Y'all content in iOS xv

Sometimes you want to go along rail of something someone shared with you in the Messages app itself. In iOS 15, you lot tin pin that content in Letters to easily find it later. Hither'due south how.

1. Press and hold the piece of content y'all want to pivot.