Restricting access to photos

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Hi there…sorry if this is a stupid question but I’ve looked and can’t find the answer. I’ve invited a couple of friends to view my Plex server but I’m looking for a way to restrict access to my photo library. I’ve found information on how to restrict access to certain movies or TV shows, but it doesn’t seem to apply to photos. In settings I can view my friends and looks like I can set restrictions for other content but not photos.

It’s not the end of the world if I can’t restrict access, but it’s decades of family vacation photos and I’d rather them not have access to them.

Thanks for the help!

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Unfortunately the Photo support in Plex is a bit younger and less-developed than the other areas, and this is one of the features that has yet to be implemented. They even had the UI in place on the Restrictions tab of Edit User to restrict access to photo libraries by labels, but there’s no way to add labels to your photos. They have since removed that field in Restrictions.

There is a feature request to improve this. Please add your vote by clicking ‘Like’ on the first post in that thread.