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Add contributors to a Facebook album or get a share link
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Do you want to make a Facebook album shareable? If you want an album your friends can add to, you can add them as contributors. If you just want to share a link to the album in a group, a post, or a comment, you can use the Share menu. Here's how to share an album on Facebook using your computer, iPhone, iPad, or Android.
Quick Steps
- Tap the album you want to share.
- Tap ••• .
- Tap Edit Album .
- Toggle on Add Contributors and select Choose friends .
- Tap the friends you want to add.
- Tap Done .
Steps
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Open Facebook. This app looks like a white "f" on a blue background. You can find this app icon on one of your Home screens, by searching, or in the app drawer.
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Tap your profile picture icon. This is at the top, near What's on your mind?
- You can also tap the three-line menu icon and then tap your name to go to your profile.
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Tap Photos . You'll find this underneath your name.
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Tap Albums . This is the tile underneath the Your photos and videos header.
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Tap the album you want to add contributors to. This cannot be an auto-generated album like "Profile Pictures" or "Cover Photos."
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Tap ••• . This three-dot menu icon is in the top-right corner of your screen.
- If you want to link someone to your album without making them a contributor, tap Share next to Comment . You can then paste the link into Messenger, a Facebook post or comment, or another website.
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Tap Edit Album (iOS) or Edit (Android). It's next to an icon of a pencil.
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Toggle on "Add Contributors". This will allow you to choose friends to add to the album. Without this enabled, you won't be able to select friends.
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Tap Choose friends . A list of your Facebook friends will appear with suggestions listed first.
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Tap the friends you want to add, and then tap Done . The circle next to their name will fill and their name will appear at the top of the screen to indicate that they have been selected.
- If you don't want to scroll down the list to find your friends, you can search for them using the search bar at the top of your screen.
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Tap Done again. This is in the top-right corner. Once it's finished updating, your friend should receive a notification that they've been added to your album as a contributor. [1] X Research source
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Click Photos . This tab is under your cover photo.
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Click Albums . All the displayed photos will be replaced by the albums you have created.
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Click ••• . This is at the top-right of the album you want to share.
- If you want to link someone to your album without making them a contributor, click the album, and then click Share above the comment section. You can then paste the link into Messenger , a Facebook post or comment, or another website.
- Keep in mind that you can't add contributors to automatically generated albums like Mobile Uploads. [2] X Research source
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Click Edit album . This is in the pop-up menu.
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Click the "Add Contributors" field. This is in the left panel.
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Add the contributors. As you type names, users will pop up. Click them to add them.
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Click Save . This is at the bottom-left corner.
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1. Go to https://facebook.com
and sign in.
2. Click your profile from the panel on the left side of the browser.
3. Click the Photos
tab , then Albums
tab.
4. Click the album you want to share.
5. Click Share
.
6. Select a share method and share your album.
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