What is Apple Shared with You and how does it work in apps?

(Pocket-lint) - Apple revealed a caller system-wide Messages diagnostic designed to aboveground contented antecedently shared with you with the merchandise of iOS 15.

Appropriately called Shared with You, the diagnostic presently works with six antithetic Apple apps, specified arsenic Apple News. It's designed to marque it easier for you to revisit things that friends and household nonstop you successful Messages - specified arsenic articles.

What is Shared with You?

It's easiest to deliberation of Shared with You arsenic an Apple Messages diagnostic that creates a caller "Shared with You" conception successful the Apple Photos app, Apple Music app, Apple News app, Safari app, Apple Podcasts app, and Apple TV app.

Any contented shared with you successful Messages volition look successful these Apple apps nether "Shared with You" for quick, casual access.

How does Shared with You work?

Basically, if a person sends you a photo, playlist, article, site, podcast, oregon movie successful Messages, you volition spot that contented look successful the "Shared with You" sections of your Apple apps. For instance, shared photos volition look successful the Photos app, and playlists volition look successful the Music app, and articles volition look successful the News app, and truthful on. It's straightforward.

Apple Music

The Shared with You conception appears successful the Listen Now tab of the Apple Music app. From there, you tin easy play a shared playlist and adjacent adhd it to your library. 

Apple News

The Share with You conception appears successful the Today tab of the Apple News app, nether the Top Stories section. You tin pat connected the 3 dots beneath immoderate shared communicative for a scope of options, similar Remove Share, Save Story, Copy Link oregon Reply.

Apple Photos

In the Photos app, Shared with You contented lives successful the For You tab, arsenic good arsenic nether Featured Photos and Memories. Photos shared with you are besides automatically added to your library.

Interestingly, Apple said erstwhile it announced the diagnostic that Photos is astute capable to bring implicit the pics you "actually attraction about" - truthful you won't person to interest astir screenshots oregon memes clutter.

Safari

Any shared websites done Messages volition look successful the tabs conception of Safari, with a tiny enactment of substance supra them showing who shared them with you.

Apple TV

As for the TV app, it has a Shared with You row. This has each the movies and shows your friends shared successful Messages.

Apple Podcasts

For the Apple Podcasts app, conscionable similar others, determination is simply a Share with You conception that sits beneath the Up Next conception astatine the top. You'll besides spot a tiny tag adjacent to the podcast telling you who it was shared from.

Is that it?

Nope. You tin besides rapidly pin contented successful Messages to elevate it successful Shared with You. Neat.

When volition Shared with You beryllium available?

Shared with You is disposable successful Messages and works with Apple's apps erstwhile you update to iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and tvOS 15, each of which are disposable to download now.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 9 June 2021.