Does shared photo stream pictures use up memory?

I am wondering if when you share an album or set of pictures with someone else, does it take up storage on their phone?

Hm, what is 'temporary' memory?
Actually it is a very good question from RWaddell11
It is strange that I do not see a lot of similar questions.
The idea of common photo stream in icloud is very good.
For instance to have common photo with parents, etc. As Apple proposes.
Common photo album stored in icloud without time limit and almost without quantity of photos. (its in their advertisement)  It is possible to “like” and comment photos. Its like a very simple social network.
But when you create a common album in icloud it is very interesting How much memory will it (albume) use on your device and the device of the person you share your album. It does im sure…
Example: Having 64 gb iPhone I can for example have 20 gb of Photos. And upload them to common album for my friend with 16 Gb iPhone.
So what will be with memory of the phone of my friend? Will this common album fill it up if he accept my invite? And what will be with memory of 64 gb iPhone after I delete from camera roll shared to common album photos?
After a short experiment the result can be seen in statistics: it is obvious that after I uploaded photos to common album and delete them from camera roll, total free memory in statistics will increase. In detailed line “Photo and camera” Camera roll will be +- free and shared photos will take some place. Not the same as uploaded to common album. Good, but after you look them through, this line of statistics will show increase of memory usage. The same with the person I shared to.
It looks like memory used to upload preview of the photos of the common album. Is this 'temporary' memory? Than How it will be free? Automatically or not? (I found it can be free only by switching of\on this function with common album in settings)
So, what is the limit? In case of mentioned above Example: shall I check first free the memory of my friend? Because even preview of the huge common album can fill up the memory of small storage device.

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