Did y'all know that Facebook gets 4,000 photo uploads every 2d? The social media platform has more than a billion users worldwide, and that number is expected to go up by 690 million in 2020. That'southward an overwhelming number of photos being uploaded every day.

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

We're going to prove you how to motility photos around on Facebook and so you tin organize your collection to arrive easier for yous to manage, recollect 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'south a virtual photo book. Plus, you can share it with every bit many people as you want by tagging them on the album itself, or unlike photos you'd like them to see.

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

All the same, adding and managing photos on Facebook isn't always easy, because they tend to change the user interface rather frequently.

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

In Facebook, before you tin motion 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 Anthology.
  • Choose the photos or videos y'all want to add to your anthology, and so click Open.
  • Requite the album a title, description or location. You tin can also tag your friends or family unit, add contributors, and choose who tin can view the photos in the album. For example, yous can cull either Friends, Public then on.
  • Click Mail to create the album. If y'all want, y'all tin can modify your album covers to make them expect fun and interesting.

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

Create a Photo Anthology Using The Facebook App

  • If yous're using Facebook from your smartphone or tablet to create a photo album via the Facebook app, tap on the menu (three horizontal lines) at the top right side of the screen.
  • Tap your profile name to open up your profile page.
  • Tap Photos, choose a photograph and tap Done.
  • Tap Album and and then tap Create Album. Proper name the album and give information technology a clarification.
  • If y'all want your anthology to take restricted admission or available to the public, tap to choose privacy settings, and and then tap Create.
  • If y'all want others to contribute to your anthology, toggle the Contributors switch and pick the names from your Friends list. Tap Washed.
  • One time you're done, tap Create and your new anthology is gear up.

Creating a Shared Album

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

For example, if you have photos from your last prom, and your friends too take photos to share, you tin put them all in a shared album and get notifications when information technology'due south updated.

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

Notation: Contributors to a shared album can only delete or edit the photos or videos they upload. The anthology owner has deletion rights to all the content in the shared album. If you lot remove a contributor from the anthology, he or she can go to their activity log to delete the photos they added.

Facebook: Movement Photos To Anthology

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

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

Note: Comprehend photos and profile photo albums don't accept the pick to edit.

  • Mouse over the photograph and click on the arrow at the acme right side. Click Motility to Other Album.

Note: If the photograph you want to motion in Facebook is office of a post, you lot'll get a notification popup.

  • Under the photo you want to move, click the drib-down listing, and select the destination album.
  • Click Movement Photograph. Your photo/photos have been moved, but you'll still be on the original album's page. If y'all want to see the photo, click the Albums link, and click the album that holds the photograph you lot but moved.

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

Facebook: Delete a Photo Anthology

Not all photograph albums on Facebook can be deleted, for example Profile Photos, only you can delete any photos in such albums.

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