Facebook To Increase Limit on Album Uploads

-Facebook Photos Icon- For those of you who use Facebook albums regularly, you will be happy to learn that Facebook’s 60 photo album limit is being increased. A number of users have been reporting the increase and have sent me photos of albums with hundreds of photos in them. The one pictured below have 175 photos in the Facebook album. There’s no word on how large on an increase it is, or if Facebook has removed the limit all together.

I’ve tried uploading albums myself with more than 30 photos but unfortunately I haven’t been able to. The 60 photo limit previously implemented for Facebook albums was proving to be an annoying barrier when sharing personal experiences. Given that there was no limit on the number of albums that users could have, it seemed to be somewhat of a pointless limitation.

As far as we can tell, Facebook is slowly rolling out the ability to upload more photos to albums. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that the service has been so spotty over the past week. Whatever the reason is, there’s no doubt that people will be uploading many more pictures as the album limitations are removed.

Facebook is currently the largest photo site in the world, dwarfing the competition with the total number of photos. The site receives over 800 million photos to their site each month. Despite there being many limiting features of the photos application (including the inability to view high resolution images), it continues to thrive, suggesting that being able to share and tag users in photos is more important feature for a photo sharing site.

Let us know if you’ve seen the removal of your Facebook album upload limits!

-Asia Photo Album with 175 Photos-

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Hooray! Finally they're rethinking the album limits. My hope is that the photo limit is gone completely, as opposed to just being changed to a very large number.

Comment by Neil Patrick Clark I — January 19, 2009 @ 11:19 am
It would be interesting to be able to merge old albums into one now that the limit has been increased.

Comment by Nicolas Defrenne — January 19, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
I've noticed that few users had albums with 80-90 pictures a while ago (few weeke, I think), but stil haven't got a clue how are this rules applied.

Comment by Ratko Bozovic — January 19, 2009 @ 1:04 pm
What would be great is a direct intergation of Flickr into Facebook. i do not think they can get rid of a limit: how are they going to manage the cost, especially with the current growth?

Comment by Guillaume — January 19, 2009 @ 1:37 pm
Thank God 60 is not enough! I made 3 albums for ASW in Vegas.

Comment by StephARC — January 19, 2009 @ 8:07 pm
This step was probably inevitable concerning the interaction of iphoto and facebook coming up next week.

Hopefully a better resolution of the uploaded pics will follow soon.

Comment by Manuel Sailer — January 20, 2009 @ 1:14 am
about 3 weeks ago i was able to upload around 150 pictures to an album (i'm from the UK). plus i noticed a couple of weeks before that, that some people added 100+ photo albums.

there is still a limit. i think its 200 but i cant be certain. i cant access facebook at work so i cant check!

Comment by Paul M — January 20, 2009 @ 4:47 am
When, oh when, will Facebook start upgrading their photo capabilities beyond album sizes. Why can't I edit photos after I've uploaded them?

When will they have better resolution?

Comment by Jeff Rutherford — January 20, 2009 @ 5:06 am
I had noticed before that some people were able to get more than 60 photos. I suspect they did this by editing albums and moving a bunch of pictures at once into another album. HOWEVER, I was not able to do this with any album that already had 60 pictures. My thesis was that if you had 58 pics, you could move a bunch of pics into that album at once and get above 60, but I haven't tried it. Happily, it sounds like I won't have to.

@Nicolas–you can "edit album" and from there click on the drop-down and say "move to" . . . that lets you move a bunch of pictures at once, anyway.

Comment by Lorraine — January 20, 2009 @ 5:48 am
I’ve been able to upload 200 photos in an album for some time now, its great!
I’m note exactly sure why… perhaps because I have a mac or perhaps I run a facebook page which has no limits for photo uploads?

Comment by Christos Winter — January 22, 2009 @ 10:50 pm
Is there a certain order to this album increase, or it is by random users? From reading a few other posts it sounds like some users are able to upload 200 photos but some are not, even if they are using the same computer to do it. It would be nice to figure out when my account will have the 60 photo limit lifted…

Comment by SL — January 23, 2009 @ 9:29 am
I definitely don't get more than 60 per album. Moving photos into a newly created album doesn't work either. Strangeness. Perhaps it was a mistake. After all, they did leak the code for the homepage..

Comment by Brian — January 30, 2009 @ 8:35 pm
Another one in the boat of only being able to upload 60 while my friends can get 200. So frustrating. Any word on what's causing it?

Comment by Kristine — February 8, 2009 @ 7:00 am
Its a pain in the A$$.. it wouldn’t be so bad if you could have a photo group with the albums in it..

Main Albums with sub albums.

Comment by jay — February 12, 2009 @ 4:41 am
i havent been able to upload more than 60 photos yet. I really want to! but I cant! my friends are able to do this but I dont know why I cant do this. please help me if you know how to do this. thanks!

Comment by Facebook User — February 28, 2009 @ 11:01 am
HOW COME I CANT UPLOAD ANY THEN?USED TO BE SO EASY!

Comment by kim — March 29, 2009 @ 7:25 am
I am not getting more than 60… I am wondering what happens if 2 albums are named the same.

Comment by Facebook User — April 5, 2009 @ 4:49 am
Its not working me also… i only can upload 60 pic…
how we can get 200 Limit ?

Comment by Praneeth Hettiarachchi — April 8, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
That helps so much! I uploaded eleven albums alone for a spring break trip >.>

But I think FB is pulling random users to beta test this..

Comment by Facebook User — April 20, 2009 @ 12:45 am
I still can’t upload more than 60 pics per album
how do i get to do it?

Comment by Facebook User — April 30, 2009 @ 11:31 pm
'"We sometimes test new features with subsets of users for varying periods of time. Your friends may be upload more than 60 photos to an album if they are part of this test group. Unfortunately, we are not able to manually add or remove users from the test group. You can upload 100 photos into the Mobile Uploads album. If you add more than 100, a second album is automatically created." – Facebook'

Comment by Orta Therox — May 5, 2009 @ 2:02 pm
Finally something facebook can imporve that we can all agree on…unlike all those unnecessary applications that they constantly keep asdding evey month

Comment by FaceBook User — May 15, 2009 @ 3:38 am
I am using an iMac and never had any problems uploading any pictures. As soon as the limit of 60 was lifted I have been able to add more – no problems there. Between Facebook and iPhoto it is easy and fun to do!

Comment by Anke Arnold — June 18, 2009 @ 6:36 am
YES! this is very usefull to me since im a gig photographer i take way to many photos and have like 4 albums on the same gig AHH!

Comment by laura — July 7, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
I can upload more than 60 via iPhoto, but not via Picasa. Picasa uploader doesn’t list my album that has over 60 photos in it.

Comment by Bronwyn — July 16, 2009 @ 7:41 pm
The limits currently are:

200 photos per album

70 photos can be uploaded at once by exteral apps (like Picasa)

So a problem arises: you want to get 160 photos from eg Picasa to Facebook, but you want them in one album.

Easy!

- Do 3 uploads from Picase to FB (70+70+20)

- Merge the second and third album into the first. You can do that very easily (3 click per album) by joining my "Merge Photo Albums" group on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=...

Comment by Roebie — September 8, 2009 @ 1:51 am
I am able to load 200 pictures into my face book album but wasn’t notified about this ahead of time. Unfortunately, my album was placed in a certain order, so no I have to retrack and make two albums, removing about half from my 1st one and adding again to the second one. It’s a family tree and photos have been placed according to order. Ohhhhhhh boy!!!

Comment by Penny — November 2, 2009 @ 10:22 am
my one was working now its stoped WHY??????????????????????

Comment by ADAM SHIPWAY — December 20, 2009 @ 11:57 am
I haven't had even 60 in any of my albums and then I try to increase them and I get a message that I have lost connection and need to try again… every time. I have removed, from albums across the board, not just the immediate one, other photos and, thus been able to upload additional pictures. I have a grand total of 98 pics in five albums and not one album has 60 pics in it. I am pretty confused by even the initial claim that 60 pics per album was the limit. Haven't experienced that GOOD a set-up. What am I doing wrong? I have some high rez shots, but many are just my little cell phone 35kb to 40kb snapshots. Sigh

Comment by Laura — December 29, 2009 @ 9:40 am
what about the maximum number of photo album? i know for friendster the max photo album is 20~

Comment by sHirLyN~ — December 31, 2009 @ 10:15 pm
I've been trying to upload photos tonight and it keeps telling me that the photos have been uploaded successfully but then they never appear in the album. I have 12 albums, with a total of 300 photos.

Comment by Emil Signes — January 26, 2010 @ 7:47 pm
http://developers.facebook.com/iphoto/FacebookExp...

Comment by Julian Jae-Kyong Bla — February 13, 2010 @ 5:10 am
I can't add more then 17 photos in one album, and you are complaining about limit of 60 photos!?)))

Comment by gk — February 21, 2010 @ 8:31 am
i have about 186 photos in an album i just recently created. if you have windows (i havent tested on my mac yet) it says, when you try to use the simple uploader, that you have a limit of 200 photos per album. also, i just noticed that i had 52 photo albums. i tried uploading some photos, and then it stopped working altogether. mac, pc, everything. i think that along with the photo limit in an album, there is a photo limit for all of them because i deleted photos and then they let me add again.. now its not working again

Comment by lilly — April 18, 2010 @ 3:33 pm
Is there a limit for number of photos you can have on a profile. I couldn't upload any more photos and when I have deleted some I could do it again. I think the limit is 1000 photos.

Does anyone know the correct answer?

Comment by Donat Greber — June 5, 2010 @ 8:15 am
Best I can tell from my end of things is we get 200 pictures per collection and 33 albums and counting and that includes profile pics and that year in the life album thing.

Peace,

Rob

Comment by rcandrews — June 12, 2010 @ 4:32 am
I have 8 albums, but Facebook shows only 1,2,3,4,5. I must press 5 in order to have 6 show and I must press 6 in order to have 7 show and 7 in order to have 8 show. I fear that my friends do not know enough to do that. Please correct this error. Thank you.

Comment by alan McGuirk — July 6, 2010 @ 11:08 am
There is a limit alright and I just reached it. The limit is a total of 2010 pictures within all of the albums combined. Each album is limited to 200 photos. Hopes this answers all curiosities. My next question is how can I suggest that they remove the limitation as I have reached it? lol

Comment by Glori Lopez — October 12, 2010 @ 11:42 am
I have successfully uploaded 70 with Aperture Uploaded.

Comment by Cameron — December 18, 2010 @ 7:28 pm
The largest album I have currently is an even 65. Loading any more than that does nothing. It tells me its uploaded, but it never shows

Comment by Travis Ankrom — January 22, 2011 @ 9:37 pm
Yes I had approx 62 photo Albums, that have Disappeared, These photos were important to me, if you going to change our profoile page as you did without our consent, it seems as though you also have removed our albums without a warning. we appreciat the website but would like some consideration in choices.__ Alfred E. Mayo

Comment by Alfred E. Mayo — February 17, 2011 @ 12:05 pm
Love how people bitch and moan about a free service. Im always amazed how companies like FB can make enough money to support the huge infrastructure costs.

Comment by CCC — April 12, 2011 @ 11:12 pm
im uploading 112 right now

Comment by drr — May 27, 2011 @ 12:35 am
Mine stopped at 200. I'm ticked

Comment by Kimber — July 2, 2011 @ 3:50 am
200 is the current limit. Facebook did announce this.
Whilst on the topic of limits. You're limited to only 5,000 friends. So choose carefully!

Comment by chunkylefunga — November 25, 2011 @ 12:33 pm

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Hooray! Finally they're rethinking the album limits. My hope is that the photo limit is gone completely, as opposed to just being changed to a very large number.

Comment by Neil Patrick Clark I — January 19, 2009 @ 11:19 am

It would be interesting to be able to merge old albums into one now that the limit has been increased.

Comment by Nicolas Defrenne — January 19, 2009 @ 12:48 pm

I've noticed that few users had albums with 80-90 pictures a while ago (few weeke, I think), but stil haven't got a clue how are this rules applied.

Comment by Ratko Bozovic — January 19, 2009 @ 1:04 pm

What would be great is a direct intergation of Flickr into Facebook. i do not think they can get rid of a limit: how are they going to manage the cost, especially with the current growth?

Comment by Guillaume — January 19, 2009 @ 1:37 pm

Thank God 60 is not enough! I made 3 albums for ASW in Vegas.

Comment by StephARC — January 19, 2009 @ 8:07 pm

This step was probably inevitable concerning the interaction of iphoto and facebook coming up next week.

Hopefully a better resolution of the uploaded pics will follow soon.

Comment by Manuel Sailer — January 20, 2009 @ 1:14 am

about 3 weeks ago i was able to upload around 150 pictures to an album (i'm from the UK). plus i noticed a couple of weeks before that, that some people added 100+ photo albums.

there is still a limit. i think its 200 but i cant be certain. i cant access facebook at work so i cant check!

Comment by Paul M — January 20, 2009 @ 4:47 am

When, oh when, will Facebook start upgrading their photo capabilities beyond album sizes. Why can't I edit photos after I've uploaded them?

When will they have better resolution?

Comment by Jeff Rutherford — January 20, 2009 @ 5:06 am

I had noticed before that some people were able to get more than 60 photos. I suspect they did this by editing albums and moving a bunch of pictures at once into another album. HOWEVER, I was not able to do this with any album that already had 60 pictures. My thesis was that if you had 58 pics, you could move a bunch of pics into that album at once and get above 60, but I haven't tried it. Happily, it sounds like I won't have to.

@Nicolas–you can "edit album" and from there click on the drop-down and say "move to" . . . that lets you move a bunch of pictures at once, anyway.

Comment by Lorraine — January 20, 2009 @ 5:48 am

I’ve been able to upload 200 photos in an album for some time now, its great!
I’m note exactly sure why… perhaps because I have a mac or perhaps I run a facebook page which has no limits for photo uploads?

Comment by Christos Winter — January 22, 2009 @ 10:50 pm

Is there a certain order to this album increase, or it is by random users? From reading a few other posts it sounds like some users are able to upload 200 photos but some are not, even if they are using the same computer to do it. It would be nice to figure out when my account will have the 60 photo limit lifted…

Comment by SL — January 23, 2009 @ 9:29 am

I definitely don't get more than 60 per album. Moving photos into a newly created album doesn't work either. Strangeness. Perhaps it was a mistake. After all, they did leak the code for the homepage..

Comment by Brian — January 30, 2009 @ 8:35 pm

Another one in the boat of only being able to upload 60 while my friends can get 200. So frustrating. Any word on what's causing it?

Comment by Kristine — February 8, 2009 @ 7:00 am

Its a pain in the A$$.. it wouldn’t be so bad if you could have a photo group with the albums in it..

Main Albums with sub albums.

Comment by jay — February 12, 2009 @ 4:41 am

i havent been able to upload more than 60 photos yet. I really want to! but I cant! my friends are able to do this but I dont know why I cant do this. please help me if you know how to do this. thanks!

Comment by Facebook User — February 28, 2009 @ 11:01 am

HOW COME I CANT UPLOAD ANY THEN?USED TO BE SO EASY!

Comment by kim — March 29, 2009 @ 7:25 am

I am not getting more than 60… I am wondering what happens if 2 albums are named the same.

Comment by Facebook User — April 5, 2009 @ 4:49 am

Its not working me also… i only can upload 60 pic…
how we can get 200 Limit ?

Comment by Praneeth Hettiarachchi — April 8, 2009 @ 4:48 pm

That helps so much! I uploaded eleven albums alone for a spring break trip >.>

But I think FB is pulling random users to beta test this..

Comment by Facebook User — April 20, 2009 @ 12:45 am

I still can’t upload more than 60 pics per album
how do i get to do it?

Comment by Facebook User — April 30, 2009 @ 11:31 pm

'"We sometimes test new features with subsets of users for varying periods of time. Your friends may be upload more than 60 photos to an album if they are part of this test group. Unfortunately, we are not able to manually add or remove users from the test group. You can upload 100 photos into the Mobile Uploads album. If you add more than 100, a second album is automatically created." – Facebook'

Comment by Orta Therox — May 5, 2009 @ 2:02 pm

Finally something facebook can imporve that we can all agree on…unlike all those unnecessary applications that they constantly keep asdding evey month

Comment by FaceBook User — May 15, 2009 @ 3:38 am

I am using an iMac and never had any problems uploading any pictures. As soon as the limit of 60 was lifted I have been able to add more – no problems there. Between Facebook and iPhoto it is easy and fun to do!

Comment by Anke Arnold — June 18, 2009 @ 6:36 am

YES! this is very usefull to me since im a gig photographer i take way to many photos and have like 4 albums on the same gig AHH!

Comment by laura — July 7, 2009 @ 9:28 pm

I can upload more than 60 via iPhoto, but not via Picasa. Picasa uploader doesn’t list my album that has over 60 photos in it.

Comment by Bronwyn — July 16, 2009 @ 7:41 pm

The limits currently are:

200 photos per album

70 photos can be uploaded at once by exteral apps (like Picasa)

So a problem arises: you want to get 160 photos from eg Picasa to Facebook, but you want them in one album.

Easy!

- Do 3 uploads from Picase to FB (70+70+20)

- Merge the second and third album into the first. You can do that very easily (3 click per album) by joining my "Merge Photo Albums" group on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=...

Comment by Roebie — September 8, 2009 @ 1:51 am

I am able to load 200 pictures into my face book album but wasn’t notified about this ahead of time. Unfortunately, my album was placed in a certain order, so no I have to retrack and make two albums, removing about half from my 1st one and adding again to the second one. It’s a family tree and photos have been placed according to order. Ohhhhhhh boy!!!

Comment by Penny — November 2, 2009 @ 10:22 am

my one was working now its stoped WHY??????????????????????

Comment by ADAM SHIPWAY — December 20, 2009 @ 11:57 am

I haven't had even 60 in any of my albums and then I try to increase them and I get a message that I have lost connection and need to try again… every time. I have removed, from albums across the board, not just the immediate one, other photos and, thus been able to upload additional pictures. I have a grand total of 98 pics in five albums and not one album has 60 pics in it. I am pretty confused by even the initial claim that 60 pics per album was the limit. Haven't experienced that GOOD a set-up. What am I doing wrong? I have some high rez shots, but many are just my little cell phone 35kb to 40kb snapshots. Sigh

Comment by Laura — December 29, 2009 @ 9:40 am

what about the maximum number of photo album? i know for friendster the max photo album is 20~

Comment by sHirLyN~ — December 31, 2009 @ 10:15 pm

I've been trying to upload photos tonight and it keeps telling me that the photos have been uploaded successfully but then they never appear in the album. I have 12 albums, with a total of 300 photos.

Comment by Emil Signes — January 26, 2010 @ 7:47 pm

http://developers.facebook.com/iphoto/FacebookExp...

Comment by Julian Jae-Kyong Bla — February 13, 2010 @ 5:10 am

I can't add more then 17 photos in one album, and you are complaining about limit of 60 photos!?)))

Comment by gk — February 21, 2010 @ 8:31 am

i have about 186 photos in an album i just recently created. if you have windows (i havent tested on my mac yet) it says, when you try to use the simple uploader, that you have a limit of 200 photos per album. also, i just noticed that i had 52 photo albums. i tried uploading some photos, and then it stopped working altogether. mac, pc, everything. i think that along with the photo limit in an album, there is a photo limit for all of them because i deleted photos and then they let me add again.. now its not working again

Comment by lilly — April 18, 2010 @ 3:33 pm

Is there a limit for number of photos you can have on a profile. I couldn't upload any more photos and when I have deleted some I could do it again. I think the limit is 1000 photos.

Does anyone know the correct answer?

Comment by Donat Greber — June 5, 2010 @ 8:15 am

Best I can tell from my end of things is we get 200 pictures per collection and 33 albums and counting and that includes profile pics and that year in the life album thing.

Peace,

Rob

Comment by rcandrews — June 12, 2010 @ 4:32 am

I have 8 albums, but Facebook shows only 1,2,3,4,5. I must press 5 in order to have 6 show and I must press 6 in order to have 7 show and 7 in order to have 8 show. I fear that my friends do not know enough to do that. Please correct this error. Thank you.

Comment by alan McGuirk — July 6, 2010 @ 11:08 am

There is a limit alright and I just reached it. The limit is a total of 2010 pictures within all of the albums combined. Each album is limited to 200 photos. Hopes this answers all curiosities. My next question is how can I suggest that they remove the limitation as I have reached it? lol

Comment by Glori Lopez — October 12, 2010 @ 11:42 am

I have successfully uploaded 70 with Aperture Uploaded.

Comment by Cameron — December 18, 2010 @ 7:28 pm

The largest album I have currently is an even 65. Loading any more than that does nothing. It tells me its uploaded, but it never shows

Comment by Travis Ankrom — January 22, 2011 @ 9:37 pm

Yes I had approx 62 photo Albums, that have Disappeared, These photos were important to me, if you going to change our profoile page as you did without our consent, it seems as though you also have removed our albums without a warning. we appreciat the website but would like some consideration in choices.__ Alfred E. Mayo

Comment by Alfred E. Mayo — February 17, 2011 @ 12:05 pm

Love how people bitch and moan about a free service. Im always amazed how companies like FB can make enough money to support the huge infrastructure costs.

Comment by CCC — April 12, 2011 @ 11:12 pm

im uploading 112 right now

Comment by drr — May 27, 2011 @ 12:35 am

Mine stopped at 200. I'm ticked

Comment by Kimber — July 2, 2011 @ 3:50 am

200 is the current limit. Facebook did announce this.
Whilst on the topic of limits. You're limited to only 5,000 friends. So choose carefully!

Comment by chunkylefunga — November 25, 2011 @ 12:33 pm

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