Move your shared album to Lumo.

Today’s limits, and why families move

Each of these shared albums stops growing at some point. As of 6 November 2026:

• iCloud Shared Albums made on iOS 26 or earlier hold up to 5,000 photos and videos, with photos reduced to 2048 pixels.
• iCloud Shared Albums made on iOS 27 or later have no count, but everything in them, including what others add, uses the owner’s iCloud storage. Temporary albums hold up to 5,000 and are deleted after 30 days.
• A LINE album holds up to 1,000 items, of which up to 100 can be videos, and a chat can have up to 100 albums.
• Google Photos shares 15 GB of free storage with Gmail and Drive, and photos saved from a shared album into your library count toward yours.

Where these limits come from

Apple’s Shared Albums limits, LINE’s Creating and editing albums and Google’s How storage works in your Google Account, all checked 6 November 2026. Services change their limits, so check those pages if a number looks different.

From a Google Photos shared album

On a computer, open the album at photos.google.com, click More, then Download all, and unzip the file. Then open app.lumomagic.com, sign in and add them all at once: in a browser there is no limit per pick.

On a phone, open each photo in the album and tap More, then Download, so it’s saved on your phone. Then open Lumo, tap Add and choose them in the photo picker, up to 30 at a time. Google notes that a downloaded file can get a new date on the file itself; Lumo reads the date taken inside the photo when there is one. Source: Google’s Download photos or videos to your device, checked 6 November 2026.

From an iCloud Shared Album

On iPhone or iPad, open the album in Photos, tap Select, choose the photos, then tap Share and Save. They go into your own library. Then open Lumo, tap Add and choose them, up to 30 at a time.

For a large album, a computer is quicker: copy the album from Photos on a Mac, or from iCloud for Windows, then add everything at once at app.lumomagic.com. Albums made on iOS 26 or earlier keep photos at 2048 pixels, so that is the size you move.

From a LINE album

On the phone, open the chat, tap the menu at the top and choose Albums. Open the album, tap the options icon at the top right and tap Download album. The photos are saved to your phone. Then open Lumo, tap Add and choose them, up to 30 at a time.

On a computer, open the album in LINE, choose Save all from its options menu, then add the saved photos at app.lumomagic.com. Source: LINE’s Creating and editing albums, checked 6 November 2026.

Then invite the old album’s members with one link

In Lumo, open Family and tap Invite someone. Leave the name empty and share the link where the old album’s people already talk: the LINE chat, the family group, or a comment in the old album. A link without a name lets up to 20 people join, and it works for 30 days. Everyone joins on their own phone, iPhone or Android, or in a browser.

People who join see every photo already in the album, and they can add their own. Anyone who saved photos from the old album can add theirs too; duplicates are skipped.

Keep the old album until everyone is in

Moving doesn’t delete anything, so there’s no rush. Keep the old album until the family has joined Lumo. If the owner deletes a shared album later, it disappears for everyone, but the copies in Lumo stay.

About these services

Google Photos, iCloud and LINE are trademarks of their owners. Lumo isn’t affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any of them. The steps above come from their own help pages, checked 6 November 2026, and menus can move between app versions.