iPhoto for iOS (iPhone): Create a journal

Create a journal

With iPhoto journals, you can present your photos in a beautiful layout, like a digital scrapbook. In addition to photos and captions, you can include custom items such as a map showing where your photos were taken, the weather report on the day the photos were taken, or a note with a personal memory.

If you have an iCloud account, you can publish your journal as a webpage and share a link to your journal with others. When you edit your journal, your changes automatically appear on your journal webpage.

You can also view your journal as a slideshow.

Journal in portrait orientation

Create a journal

  1. Tap a photo, album, or event and tap Share button > Journal.

  2. Confirm or change the photos you want to share:

    • Select all the photos in an album or event: Tap All.

    • Select a range of photos: Tap Choose Photos, tap Range, tap the first and last photos in the range, and tap Next.

  3. Tap to enter a journal name and type a name for your journal.

    If you use photos from an album or event, iPhoto gives the journal the same name as the album or event, but you can change it.

    Enter a name and choose a theme for the journal

  4. Tap to select a theme and tap Create Journal.

  5. Tap Done to return to your photos or tap Show to view your journal.

You can change a journal’s theme at any time. While you’re viewing the journal, tap Edit, tap Gear (Action) button, and select a new theme.

Set a journal’s key photo

The key photo is the cover photo that represents the journal on the bookshelf in the main iPhoto screen.

Journals displayed with key photo on shelf

  1. Tap a journal to open it and tap Edit.

  2. Tap the photo you want to make the key photo, and tap Edit in the menu that appears.

    Journal photo with edit button

  3. Tap Gear (Action) button > Set as Key Photo.

  4. To return to your journal, tap Back.

Tag a journal as a favorite

Your journals are organized on shelves by date. Journals tagged as favorites are on their own shelf above the other journals.

Tag a journal as a favorite: Tap Journals to see all your journals, tap Gear (Action) button > Edit Journals, and tap Journal favorite button.

Remove a journal from the Favorites shelf: Tap Gear (Action) button > Edit Journals, and tap Journal favorite button over a favorite journal.

To delete a journal, tap Journals to see all your journals, tap Gear (Action) button > Edit Journals, and tap Delete button on the journal you want to delete.