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How do I add my photos to the event album?

By Nimanto 2 min read

In short

Open the album from the invitation's album section, the Photo album button, a QR code at the venue or an album e-mail. Tap Add your photos, choose photos or short videos, add a caption if you like, and they appear for everyone invited.

Nimanto invitations can have a shared album where guests pool their photos from the day. It works in the browser, with no app and no sign-in.

Open the album

  • From the invitation: the Share your photos section, or the Photo album button at the bottom-right.
  • From a printed QR code at the venue: point your camera at it.
  • From an e-mail: album updates and the thank-you e-mail carry Open the album or See the photos.

Add photos

  1. Tap Add your photos (on a phone it sits at the foot of the screen).
  2. Choose photos or short videos from your phone, up to twenty at a time. On a computer you can also drag files anywhere onto the page.
  3. Check Shared as shows your name; it is filled in from your personal link, or remembered once you type it.
  4. Tap + Caption to add a line, if you like.
  5. Each file shows a thumbnail while it uploads, then a tick.

JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, HEIC and AVIF photos are accepted; videos in MP4, WebM or MOV when the host allows them. Large photos are shrunk on your phone before upload to save data.

What happens next

Your photos appear newest first, marked Yours, and the All / Yours switch shows just your own. If the host checks photos first, you see "waiting for the hosts to approve" until they do. Guests who said Yes get an occasional e-mail when new photos land, never one per photo.

Save or share a photo

Tap any photo for the full-screen viewer: Save downloads it, Share uses your phone's share sheet, and the arrows move between photos. Share the album passes on the album link without your personal link in it.

If you cannot add photos

  • "Only the hosts can add photos to this album": the host switched guest uploads off.
  • "The photo album for this event is closed for now": the host closed the album, or this invitation does not have one.
  • "The hosts have turned off photo adding for this device": the host blocked uploads from your device.
  • "Too many uploads from this device for now": wait a while and try again.

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