how do i convert an album to a shared album without the order of the photos changing

I have created an album that I would like to share. I want to make sure that when I convert it, the photos remain in the order that I put them. How can I do this?


Posted on Nov 11, 2021 7:53 PM

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Posted on Nov 11, 2021 10:02 PM

if you share a complete album or select all photos in the album at once to share them, the order will change.

The only way to share the album in exactly the order you want is to add the photos one-by-one, in exactly the order you want them to appear. Any photo you add individually will be added at the end of the shared album. You have to do this, before you share the album, or the subscribers will get an alert for each photo you add to the album. This can be very annoying.

And another problem - even if we painstakingly add each photo individually, the order of the photos on the shared webpage may change, as soon as someone comments on a photo. We have to add the comments the moment we share the photo to preserve the sorting, and it will be safer not to allow the subscribers to contribute photos to this album. Create a second album, where the subscribers can drop their own photos.


It is nice, that we now can sort a shared album, but this will only sort our view of the shared album, not the view of the subscribers.


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Nov 11, 2021 10:02 PM in response to vzaffos

if you share a complete album or select all photos in the album at once to share them, the order will change.

The only way to share the album in exactly the order you want is to add the photos one-by-one, in exactly the order you want them to appear. Any photo you add individually will be added at the end of the shared album. You have to do this, before you share the album, or the subscribers will get an alert for each photo you add to the album. This can be very annoying.

And another problem - even if we painstakingly add each photo individually, the order of the photos on the shared webpage may change, as soon as someone comments on a photo. We have to add the comments the moment we share the photo to preserve the sorting, and it will be safer not to allow the subscribers to contribute photos to this album. Create a second album, where the subscribers can drop their own photos.


It is nice, that we now can sort a shared album, but this will only sort our view of the shared album, not the view of the subscribers.


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