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Manage your albums in the Flickr app

There are a couple of different ways you can manage your albums in the Flickr app. 

Add content to an album

iOS

  1. Go to your profile, tap Camera Roll.
  2. Tap Select.
  3. Tap one or more items.
  4. Tap the Album icon on the bottom of the screen, it looks like a folder.
  5. Tap one or more albums.
  6. Tap Save.
  7. Tap Done to return to Flickr.

Android

  1. Go to your profile, tap Camera Roll.
  2. Tap Select.
  3. Tap one or more items.
  4. Tap the Album icon on the bottom of the screen, it looks like a folder.
  5. Tap Add to album.
  6. Tap one or more albums.
  7. Tap Done in the top right-hand corner.
  8. Tap Done again to return to Flickr.

Remove content from an album

iOS

  1. From your profile, tap Albums.
  2. Tap an album.
  3. Tap the More icon.
  4. Tap Edit.
  5. Tap one or more items.
  6. Tap the Remove icon.
  7. Tap Remove.

Android

  1. From your profile, tap Albums.
  2. Tap an album.
  3. Tap Select.
  4. Tap one or more items.
  5. Tap the Remove icon.
  6. Tap Remove from album.
  7. Tap Yes.

Notes:

  • Each album can contain up to 100,000 items.
  • Removing an item from an album only removes it from that particular album grouping. To learn how to delete content from your account entirely, read more here.
  • Deleting all of the items from within an album will automatically remove the album from your account.

Using a web browser? Steps can be found here: Add or remove items from an album.

Rename an album

iOS | Android

  1. From your profile, tap Albums.
  2. Tap on an album.
  3. Tap the 3-dot menu.
  4. Tap Rename album.

Change the order of photos in an album

  1. From your profile, tap Albums.
  2. Tap on an album.
  3. Tap on the Sort icon (two arrows).
  4. Select your preferred order.

Sorting options include:

  • Date uploaded (newest first).
  • Date uploaded (oldest first).
  • Date taken (newest first).
    Photos/videos with no date taken will appear at the top before any content with a date taken.
  • Date taken (oldest first).
    Photos/videos with no date taken will appear at the bottom after the last content with the date taken.
  • A-Z.
    Photos/video with no titles will appear at the top before any content with a title.
  • Random.

Using a web browser? Steps can be found here: Change the order of photos in an album.

 

To learn how to share your albums, please see: How to save or share photos and videos in the Flickr app.

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