Not every vault is a memorial
We have written before about memorial vaults, a careful tribute space for a relative who has passed. A Family Vault is the everyday version of the same idea: a private, invite-only space for a living branch of the family, an event, or a collection everyone wants to see and add to.
Think a reunion, a set of grandparents' albums, or just the cousins who all have a few prints nobody else has scanned. The vault gives them one shared place without making any of it public.
Invite the branch, keep it private
A Family Vault holds up to 10 members and 50 GB of archival storage, and invites go out by private link. No public gallery, no search-engine exposure. Relatives can browse the keepers you have restored and contribute their own scans, so the branch's photos finally live in one place instead of scattered across phones.
Family Vaults are a paid-plan feature, included with a Family subscription. Basic private links stay free for sending a single finished photo. Use a link for one keeper, a vault when a whole branch needs shared space.
- Up to 10 members and 50 GB per household on the Family plan.
- Members browse and add; you stay in control of the shared space.
- Everything stays private and invite-only, never a public page.
Sharing is how the archive grows
The best thing about a shared vault is what it pulls in. Every invite brings another relative (and usually another shoebox) into the archive. A cousin scans the prints only they had; an aunt names the faces only she remembers. The archive gets more complete because more of the family is in it.
That is the whole loop: restore a photo, share it with the people who will treasure it, and watch the family fill in the rest.