Did y'all know that Facebook gets 4,000 photo 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 million in 2020. That's an overwhelming number of photos existence uploaded every twenty-four hours.

If you have a collection of photos uploaded over the years, depending on when you outset joined the platform, Facebook lets you movement photos into photo albums to organize them. You can and so share them with your family and friends, and preserve memories.

We're going to show you how to movement photos around on Facebook so y'all tin can organize your collection to go far easier for you to manage, retrieve and share your collection.

How To Create a Photo Album In Facebook

A photo album on Facebook works like the usual photo albums that you insert photographs, pictures or stamps, except it'due south a virtual photo book. Plus, you tin share it with as many people equally you desire by tagging them on the anthology itself, or different photos you'd like them to see.

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

However, adding and managing photos on Facebook isn't e'er easy, because they tend to change the user interface rather frequently.

Just when yous're familiar with doing unproblematic things like adding a profile photo or organizing your photo albums, new size requirements are added or they modify the interface altogether.

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

  • To do this, go to your News Feed and click on your name in the upper left side of the screen, to open your profile.
  • Adjacent, click Photos.
  • Click +Create Album.
  • Choose the photos or videos you lot want to add to your anthology, then click Open.
  • Give the album a title, description or location. Yous can besides tag your friends or family, add contributors, and cull who can view the photos in the album. For case, you can cull either Friends, Public and so on.
  • Click Mail service to create the anthology. If y'all want, you can change your album covers to make them look fun and interesting.

Note: If you create multiple albums, y'all can move more than than just photos. Facebook now allows you to move videos, text posts, check-ins, and more. You can too follow friend's albums and become alerts when they're updated, plus you lot tin can highlight your favorite collections by displaying featured albums on your contour.

Create a Photo Album Using The Facebook App

  • If you're using Facebook from your smartphone or tablet to create a photo anthology via the Facebook app, tap on the carte (3 horizontal lines) at the pinnacle correct side of the screen.
  • Tap your contour proper name to open your profile page.
  • Tap Photos, cull a photograph and tap Washed.
  • Tap Album and and then tap Create Album. Proper name the album and give it a description.
  • If y'all want your album to have restricted access or available to the public, tap to cull privacy settings, then tap Create.
  • If y'all want others to contribute to your album, toggle the Contributors switch and pick the names from your Friends list. Tap Washed.
  • Once you're done, tap Create and your new anthology is ready.

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, and then you lot don't have multiple albums for the same matter.

For instance, if you have photos from your last prom, and your friends also accept photos to share, you tin can put them all in a shared album and become notifications when it'due south updated.

  • To create a shared album, go to an anthology, and in the upper left side, find and click Add together Contributor.
  • Type the names of the contributors you want added to the anthology, and then choose an audience. The audience can exist Album contributors but, Friends of Anthology contributors, or Public.
  • Click Save.
  • Once you add contributors to the anthology, they're free to add together other contributors, tag photos, add together photos or videos, and fifty-fifty edit the album.

Note: Contributors to a shared anthology can 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 you remove a contributor from the album, he or she tin can get to their activity log to delete the photos they added.

Facebook: Motion Photos To Album

At present that y'all have your albums ready, it'southward time to move your photos betwixt albums.

  • To do this, go to your timeline and click Photos under your embrace photo.
  • Click the photograph album that holds the photograph/photos you'd similar to move to a different album. A new page will open showing all the photos on that album. Move your cursor over a photograph or click Edit at the top right side (you can click the pencil icon if you prefer).

Notation: Cover photos and profile photograph albums don't have the choice to edit.

  • Mouse over the photograph and click on the arrow at the tiptop right side. Click Move to Other Anthology.

Notation: If the photo yous want to move in Facebook is role of a post, you'll become a notification popup.

  • Under the photo yous want to movement, click the drib-down list, and select the destination album.
  • Click Move Photograph. Your photo/photos take been moved, but you'll still be on the original album'south page. If you want to encounter the photo, click the Albums link, and click the album that holds the photograph you just moved.

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

Facebook: Delete a Photo Anthology

Non all photo albums on Facebook can be deleted, for example Profile Photos, just you can delete whatever photos in such albums.

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