Did you lot know that Facebook gets four,000 photograph 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'south an overwhelming number of photos being uploaded every 24-hour interval.

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

Nosotros're going to show you how to motility photos around on Facebook so you can organize your collection to arrive easier for you to manage, retrieve and share your collection.

How To Create a Photo Album In Facebook

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

If you oasis't gear up your contour's privacy settings to private, your friends and followers tin can scan your photo albums whenever they visit your page.

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

Only 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 alter the interface altogether.

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

  • To do this, become to your News Feed and click on your name in the upper left side of the screen, to open up your profile.
  • Side by side, click Photos.
  • Click +Create Album.
  • Choose the photos or videos you want to add to your album, and then click Open.
  • Give the album a title, description or location. Yous can also tag your friends or family, add together contributors, and choose who tin can view the photos in the anthology. For example, y'all tin can choose either Friends, Public and so on.
  • Click Post to create the album. If you desire, you lot tin can modify your album covers to brand them look fun and interesting.

Note: If you create multiple albums, yous can move more than than but photos. Facebook now allows you lot to motility videos, text posts, bank check-ins, and more than. You tin also follow friend'southward albums and get alerts when they're updated, plus you can highlight your favorite collections past displaying featured albums on your profile.

Create a Photo Album Using The Facebook App

  • If yous're using Facebook from your smartphone or tablet to create a photo anthology via the Facebook app, tap on the menu (three horizontal lines) at the tiptop right side of the screen.
  • Tap your profile name to open up your profile page.
  • Tap Photos, cull a photo and tap Done.
  • Tap Album and then tap Create Anthology. Proper name the album and give information technology a clarification.
  • If you want your album to take restricted access or available to the public, tap to choose privacy settings, and 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 album is ready.

Creating a Shared Album

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

For example, if you accept photos from your last prom, and your friends also have photos to share, you tin can put them all in a shared album and become notifications when information technology's updated.

  • To create a shared anthology, go to an anthology, and in the upper left side, detect and click Add Contributor.
  • Type the names of the contributors you desire added to the album, and so choose an audience. The audience tin can exist Album contributors only, Friends of Album contributors, or Public.
  • Click Relieve.
  • Once you add 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 tin simply 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 can go to their action log to delete the photos they added.

Facebook: Movement Photos To Album

Now that you have your albums prepare, information technology's time to movement your photos between albums.

  • To practise this, become to your timeline and click Photos nether your cover photo.
  • Click the photo album that holds the photo/photos you'd like to move to a different album. A new page will open showing all the photos on that anthology. Move your cursor over a photo or click Edit at the top correct side (you lot tin can click the pencil icon if you lot prefer).

Note: Cover photos and profile photo albums don't take the option to edit.

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

Note: If the photo y'all want to move in Facebook is part of a mail service, yous'll get a notification popup.

  • Nether the photograph you want to move, click the drib-downwardly listing, and select the destination album.
  • Click Move Photo. Your photo/photos accept been moved, but you'll still exist on the original anthology's page. If you desire to run into the photograph, click the Albums link, and click the album that holds the photo y'all simply moved.

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

Facebook: Delete a Photo Anthology

Not all photo albums on Facebook tin be deleted, for example Profile Photos, but you lot can delete any photos in such albums.

  • For other albums though, you can delete them by 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 right side and then click Delete Anthology.
  • Click again to ostend the action.