- You can create an album on Facebook to organize your photos on the platform.
- Whether you have a bunch of photos to post right now or you want to keep track of them as you post them, a Facebook album is a great way to help you sort through your pictures.
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Facebook is, first and foremost, a place for sharing. Sharing your thoughts, your feelings, your life events, and your photos. It’s there to help you document your life, for you and everyone around you. It’s a digital scrapbook.
It’s easy enough to add photos to Facebook through a post, but if you want to keep them more organized – especially if you have a lot of photos – the best way to do that is to make an album.
Albums are exactly what they sound like – they’re the folders in your computer’s file explorer, there to help you keep track of which pictures are from. You can make an album for all the photos from a family vacation, or from a semester of school, or for someone’s birthday party – the possibilities are endless. You can add photos to that album all at once, or add a few and go back and add more later as you take them.
You can add an Facebook album no matter where you are. Here’s how to do it.
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How to create an album on Facebook on a computer
1. Go to your profile page on a Mac or PC.
2. On the toolbar under your cover photos, click the tab that says "Photos"
3. Underneath the name of the tab, click "Create Album."
4. You'll be prompted to add any photos that already exist on your computer to the album. Select the ones you want, then click OK.
5. Fill in the other album information - title, description, date, location; you can also add co-contributors here. When you are finished, click "Post" in the bottom right corner to finish creating the album.
How to create an album on Facebook on a mobile device
1. Go to your profile page on your iPhone or Android.
2. Scroll down to where your recent posts feed starts. Above it, to the left, tap the button that says "Photos."
3. Tap the tab at the top that says "Albums."
4. At the top left, tap the option for "Create Album."
5. Enter the album details, then tap "Save" in the top right corner.
Note: You can't add as many details when creating an album on mobile as you can on desktop. If you want to add details like location or tagged people later, you can edit the album on the desktop site.
6. To add photos to your new album from your phone, tap "Add Photos/Videos."
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