iPhone uses your Apple Account to create your contact card, called My Card, in the Contacts app. You can also add or edit details, including your name, address, phone number, and birthday, as well as the Contact Poster, which you can share with people when you call or send a message to them.

Keeping My Card current pays off elsewhere, too. When you edit it, your AutoFill information in Safari updates automatically.

Complete or edit My Card

1. Open the Contacts app on your iPhone.
2. Tap My Card at the top, then tap Edit.

   If you don’t see My Card, tap the Add button and enter your information, then return to the contact list, touch and hold your contact, and tap Make this My Card.

3. Enter your contact information.

To help you, Contacts suggests addresses and phone numbers as you go.

Add or edit your home address

1. Open the Contacts app on your iPhone.
2. Tap My Card at the top, then tap Edit.
3. Tap Add Address and then add your address.
4. Tap the label that appears to the left of the address and select Home.

AutoFill in Safari can fill in your address automatically for things like online shopping or online forms. Any edits to your My Card update your AutoFill information automatically, too.

Add or edit your avatar and poster

An avatar and poster you set can appear automatically when you call or send a message to others.

1. Open the Contacts app on your iPhone.
2. Tap My Card at the top, then tap Edit.
3. Tap your contact photo and choose a style.
4. Tap Customize to edit your avatar and poster.

Share your name and contact image

People in your contacts can automatically get your updated name, photo, and poster, if you choose.

1. Open the Contacts app on your iPhone.
2. Tap My Card at the top, tap Edit, and then tap your contact photo.
3. Turn on Name & Photo Sharing to start sharing your contact photo and poster with others. (You may need to scroll down.)

Select Always Ask if you want a prompt before your name, photo, and poster are shared with anyone. Otherwise, you can share automatically with Contacts Only.

Add or edit contact pronouns

In the Contacts app, you can add or edit your own pronouns or another contact’s.

1. Open the Contacts app on your iPhone.
2. Tap My Card at the top to add your pronouns, or select another contact to add theirs.
3. Tap Edit and tap add pronouns.
4. Select your language, then add the correct pronouns.

   You can also add pronouns in other languages by tapping Add Pronouns again.

5. Tap Add.

Note: Sharing your contact information through Contacts or NameDrop doesn’t share your pronouns by default. And when you share another contact’s information, their pronouns are never included.

Create or edit your Medical ID

In an emergency, a Medical ID provides information about you that may be important, like allergies, medical conditions, and your emergency contacts.

1. Open the Contacts app on your iPhone.
2. Tap My Card at the top of your contacts list. Then tap Edit.
3. Scroll down. Then tap Create Medical ID or Edit Medical ID.

With Shared Albums, you can create albums to share with just the people you choose, and they can add their own photos, videos, and comments for everyone to see. If you set up a shared album, you can also rename or delete it.

Before you start, Shared Albums needs to be turned on in your iCloud settings for Photos, and you need to be signed in to your Apple Account on every device you want to use with it.

Before you begin

Check that you’re signed in to your Apple Account on your iPhone and on any other devices you want to use with Shared Albums.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Tap your name and tap iCloud. Tap Photos.
3. Turn on Shared Albums.

Create a shared album

1. Open the Photos app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Collections, then tap Shared Albums.
3. Tap the Add button, then do the following:
   • Add photos and videos to the album: Tap Add Photos, select the items you want to add, and then tap the Done button.
   • Name the album: Type a name in the Shared Album Name text field.
   • Set sharing permissions: Tap Sharing Options. Then select People You Choose or Anyone with the Link.

     Note: If you select People You Choose and the link is shared with someone you didn’t invite, they can request access to the album. You can grant or deny the request.

   • Allow the album to expire: Turn on Make Album Temporary to set the album to expire after 30 days.
4. Tap the Done button to create the album.

Note: Whoever organizes a shared album provides the iCloud storage space for its content, but albums set to expire don’t use any iCloud storage.

Join a shared album

After selecting the link you received, select Join. You might need to sign in to your Apple Account, ask for access, or provide your email.

To save the album to your account after joining by email, select Join, then sign in to your Apple Account.

To view pending invitations, tap Collections, then tap your Apple Account profile.

View shared albums

There’s one place where you can view all of your shared albums.

1. Open the Photos app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Collections.
3. Tap Shared Albums to see all of your shared albums and tap an album to view it.

Quick tip: Tap Activity to view what’s new in your shared albums, such as photos, reactions, and comments.

Rename a shared album

Whoever creates a shared album can change its name.

1. Open the Photos app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Collections.
3. Tap Shared Albums and tap an album.
4. Tap the More button. Tap the current album name.
5. Enter a new name in the text field and then tap the Done button.

Delete or remove yourself from a shared album

1. Open the Photos app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Collections.
3. Tap Shared Albums and tap an album.
4. Tap the More button. Tap Delete Shared Album if you created the album, or tap Leave Shared Album if you’re a participant.

Even if a shared album is deleted, or the person who created it stops sharing it, photos you saved or downloaded from it to your photo library stay in your library.