Wix Photo Albums: Changing Your Album's Privacy Permissions
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Manage access to your album, including setting whether or not a password is required to view it. Keep track of how your photos are used by controlling sharing, downloads, and more.
Notes:
- Adding a password to your cover page protects your entire album unless someone has a direct link to an inner page.
- Disable SEO in albums with password protection set up to ensure that inner pages of private albums do not appear in search results.
- Password-protected photo albums are not available on the Spaces by Wix app.
To change your album's privacy permissions:
- Go to Photo Albums in your site's dashboard.
- Click Manage Album next to the relevant album.
- Set your album's privacy, permissions and SEO settings:
- Click the drop-down in the General section to expand it.
- Set your album access in the Who can access this album? section:
- Everyone: Anyone with the album URL can view this album.
- Password holders: Visitors need a password to view your photo album. Set your password and language:
- Enter a password in the What's the password for this album? field.
Note: Click Show Password to view the password you've entered. - Select the language of your album using the Choose the language visitors will see your album in drop-down.
- Enter a password in the What's the password for this album? field.
- Enable the Let visitors share photos toggle to show a Share icon on each photo, video and gallery.
- Enable the Display toggle to show this album on the Photo Albums page of your main site.
Note: To show it on other pages, go to the Editor. - Enable the SEO toggle to let search engines find your album.
Note: We recommend disabling SEO for password-protected albums, to prevent people finding links to inner pages of your password-protected albums. - Click Save.
![A screenshot of the General section of the Photo Albums Settings screen.](https://d2x3xhvgiqkx42.cloudfront.net/12345678-1234-1234-1234-1234567890ab/be0b50df-801c-4d6d-b81c-dc49333eccac/2023/03/08/e0c7a79b-0daa-4bc4-9de7-b94c33303d2e/170532c5-0e85-4c70-a00c-f68d87c24419.png)
- Set your album's download settings:
- Click the drop-down in the Download Settings section to expand it.
- Enable the Allow single photo downloads toggle to display a Download icon
- Low resolution: Allow visitors to download a lower-quality version of your image.
- High resolution: Allow visitors to download your image in its original quality.
next to your photos, allowing visitors to download single photos. Select the image resolution:
- Enable the Allow downloads of entire galleries toggle to display a Download icon next to your galleries, allowing visitors to download full galleries.
![A screenshot of the General section of the Photo Albums Settings screen.](https://d2x3xhvgiqkx42.cloudfront.net/12345678-1234-1234-1234-1234567890ab/be0b50df-801c-4d6d-b81c-dc49333eccac/2023/03/08/542aa99e-bf87-483a-9cc4-cb48bd73d804/45afbf6f-6fb1-44ec-9d1d-b685db7d2f85.png)
What's next?
- Add watermarks to your photos to protect and brand them.
- Manage your favorites lists to keep track of your viewers' favorite photos.