Did y'all know that Facebook gets iv,000 photograph uploads every second? The social media platform has more than than a billion users worldwide, and that number is expected to go up by 690 one thousand thousand in 2020. That's an overwhelming number of photos being uploaded every day.

If you have a collection of photos uploaded over the years, depending on when you first joined the platform, Facebook lets y'all move photos into photograph albums to organize them. You lot tin can then share them with your family and friends, and preserve memories.

Nosotros're going to show you how to motion photos around on Facebook so you can organize your collection to make information technology easier for you to manage, recollect and share your collection.

How To Create a Photograph Anthology In Facebook

A photograph album on Facebook works like the usual photo albums that you insert photographs, pictures or stamps, except information technology's a virtual photo book. Plus, you can share it with as many people as you want by tagging them on the album itself, or different photos you'd like them to see.

If you haven't set your profile's privacy settings to private, your friends and followers can scan your photo albums whenever they visit your folio.

However, adding and managing photos on Facebook isn't always piece of cake, because they tend to alter the user interface rather frequently.

Merely when y'all're familiar with doing uncomplicated things like calculation a profile photo or organizing your photo albums, new size requirements are added or they change the interface altogether.

In Facebook, earlier you lot can move photos to a different album, you'll need to create the albums.

  • To do this, go to your News Feed and click on your proper noun in the upper left side of the screen, to open up your profile.
  • Next, click Photos.
  • Click +Create Album.
  • Choose the photos or videos yous desire to add to your album, and and so click Open.
  • Give the album a title, description or location. You can also tag your friends or family unit, add contributors, and choose who can view the photos in the album. For example, you can choose either Friends, Public and so on.
  • Click Mail to create the anthology. If y'all want, y'all can change your album covers to make them look fun and interesting.

Annotation: If you create multiple albums, you can move more than simply photos. Facebook now allows y'all to motility videos, text posts, check-ins, and more. You tin too follow friend'south albums and get alerts when they're updated, plus you can highlight your favorite collections by displaying featured albums on your profile.

Create a Photo Album Using The Facebook App

  • If you're using Facebook from your smartphone or tablet to create a photograph album via the Facebook app, tap on the card (three horizontal lines) at the top right side of the screen.
  • Tap your profile name to open up your profile folio.
  • Tap Photos, cull a photograph and tap Done.
  • Tap Album and then tap Create Album. Name the album and give it a clarification.
  • If you desire your anthology to accept restricted access or bachelor to the public, tap to cull privacy settings, and then tap Create.
  • If yous want others to contribute to your album, toggle the Contributors switch and pick the names from your Friends listing. Tap Done.
  • Once y'all're done, tap Create and your new album is set up.

Creating a Shared Album

A shared album on Facebook allows y'all and your family or friends to contribute photos and other media to albums, then you don't have multiple albums for the same thing.

For example, if y'all have photos from your last prom, and your friends as well take photos to share, you tin put them all in a shared anthology and get notifications when it's updated.

  • To create a shared album, go to an album, and in the upper left side, find and click Add Contributor.
  • Blazon the names of the contributors you want added to the anthology, and so choose an audience. The audition can be Album contributors but, Friends of Anthology contributors, or Public.
  • Click Save.
  • In one case you add contributors to the anthology, they're free to add together other contributors, tag photos, add photos or videos, and even edit the album.

Note: Contributors to a shared album tin just delete or edit the photos or videos they upload. The album owner has deletion rights to all the content in the shared album. If y'all remove a contributor from the album, he or she can go to their activity log to delete the photos they added.

Facebook: Move Photos To Album

Now that y'all have your albums gear up, it's time to move your photos between albums.

  • To do this, go to your timeline and click Photos nether your cover photo.
  • Click the photo album that holds the photograph/photos you lot'd like to motion to a unlike album. A new page will open up showing all the photos on that album. Motion your cursor over a photograph or click Edit at the top right side (you tin can click the pencil icon if you prefer).

Annotation: Cover photos and profile photo albums don't accept the option to edit.

  • Mouse over the photo and click on the arrow at the top right side. Click Move to Other Album.

Annotation: If the photo you lot want to move in Facebook is function of a postal service, you'll get a notification popup.

  • Under the photo you want to movement, click the driblet-down listing, and select the destination album.
  • Click Move Photograph. Your photo/photos have been moved, but you'll still exist on the original anthology's page. If y'all want to see the photo, click the Albums link, and click the album that holds the photo you but moved.

Notation: You can't move photos and videos between Facebook albums from your smartphone or tablet.

Facebook: Delete a Photo Album

Non all photo albums on Facebook tin exist deleted, for example Profile Photos, simply you lot tin can delete any photos in such albums.

  • For other albums though, you lot can delete them by going to your Facebook profile page, and clicking Photos. Click Albums and click on the photo anthology you lot'd like to delete.
  • Click the gear icon at the upper right side and then click Delete Album.
  • Click again to confirm the action.