Facebook Has Made It Easier For Users To Share Their Photos

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Facebook has launched an update to its app on Monday that adds a new way to quickly organize and post small batches of photos from your smartphone.

Now, when users upload more than one photos from iPhone or Android, the Facebook app generates a quick preview of how the photos will be displayed. Users can then rearrange the order in which the images appear by holding down on a photo and dragging it to a new position. Users can select up to 30 photos at once. They can add tags, locations, captions and descriptions to individual images within this view. Once uploaded, the photos will appear in the app’s new collage layout which displays the order of the photos.

It looks like Facebook is placing photos as more of a platform for telling stories about everyday moment, but just a place to store albums of hundreds of photos. That may not seem like a significant difference, but the company believes that by emphasizing a more curated approach, it will make photos more engaging.

“This is a culmination of all the work we’ve done in the last year around storytelling,” said Rose Yao, Facebook’s product manager for photos. “It’s not just about the weddings and big trips. It’s about the silly daily moments, too.”

Notably, uploading photos in this way is different than creating an album. While these “stories” will appear in the “Your Photos” tab of your timeline, they will not appear in your albums, another emphasis on sharing in real time.

“I think Facebook is in some ways a proxy for dinner tables,” Yao said. “It used to be you pulled out your wallet and showed people your latest photos of your kids or your dog. Now you can do this in the moment.”