Publish your photos to Facebook

You can publish your photos directly from iPhoto to your Facebook account, so that your Facebook friends can view and tag your photos. You can also publish video clips to your Facebook Wall. After you publish photos or videos from iPhoto to Facebook, you can manage the published items using iPhoto or Facebook, and sync your changes.

To publish your photos to Facebook:

  1. Select the photos or video clips you want to publish.

  2. In the toolbar, click the Share button and choose Facebook from the pop-up menu.

  3. Do one of the following:

    • If you have a Facebook account but you’re not logged in, click Set Up, type your account email address and password, and then click Login.

    • To create a Facebook account, click Set Up and then follow the onscreen instructions.

    • If you’re logged in to Facebook, choose the album you want to add your photos to.

      To publish the photos to your Wall, choose Wall Photos. Video clips must be published to your Wall.

  4. In the window that appears, choose an option from the “Photos Viewable by” pop-up menu.

    Note:  If you are publishing to your Facebook Wall, this option isn’t available. Instead, you can add a caption for the set of photos.

  5. Click Publish.

    To view your published album, click your Facebook account in the Source list (below Web), and then click the album. When you visit Facebook, you can use this album in the same way you use any other Facebook album.

You can see whether you published a photo to Facebook. Select the photo, click the Info button in the toolbar, and look in the Sharing section. (If you don’t see a Sharing section, you haven’t shared the photo.)

To view your published photos on Facebook:

  1. In the Source list, click your Facebook account, and then double-click the published album.

    If you’re in full-screen view, click Albums in the toolbar, and then scroll down to the Facebook section.

  2. Click the arrow next to the album’s name at the top of the window.

    Image of Facebook album header

Tip:  If you click any photo in your library, the Info pane indicates where the photo has been published (below Sharing).

To add photos to a published album or to your Facebook Wall:

  1. Select the photos you want to add.

  2. Click the Share button in the toolbar and choose Facebook from the pop-up menu.

  3. Choose the album to add the photos to (or choose Wall Photos).

To change a published album’s settings:

  1. In the Source list, click your Facebook account.

    If you’re in full-screen view, click Albums in the toolbar, and then scroll down to the Facebook section.

  2. Select the album whose settings you want to change.

  3. In the toolbar, click the Info button.

  4. In the Info pane, below the Sharing subhead, make your changes.

To delete published photos or albums from Facebook:

  1. In the Source list, click your Facebook account.

    If you’re in full-screen view, click Albums in the toolbar, and then scroll down to the Facebook section.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • To delete the entire album, select it and then press Command-Delete.

      If you published this album from iPhoto, the album no longer appears on Facebook, but the photos remain in your photo library.

      If you created the album on Facebook and then synced the album with iPhoto, you can import the photos before the album is deleted. (If you don’t import the photos into iPhoto, they won’t appear in your library.)

    • To delete specific photos, open the album, select the photos, and then press the Delete key.

If you delete photos and albums from iPhoto, they’re deleted from your Facebook page, along with any posted comments. You can’t undo this action. To delete photos and albums from iPhoto without deleting them from Facebook, first remove the Facebook account from iPhoto. Choose iPhoto > Preferences, and then click Accounts. Click to select the Facebook account (below the Accounts subhead on the left), and then click the Delete (-) button in the lower-left corner of the Accounts pane.

To change your Facebook profile picture from iPhoto:

  1. In iPhoto, select the photo you want to use as your Facebook profile picture.

  2. In the toolbar, click the Share button, and then choose Facebook from the pop-up menu.

  3. Click Profile Picture.

    This option appears only if a single photo is selected.

To sync your published Facebook albums with iPhoto:

  • In the iPhoto Source list, click your Facebook account, and then open the album you want to sync.