How to upload from OS X Photos to Facebook (2016)

Aug 21, 2016 – Filed as: Productivity¹³

The OS X Photos program has a built-in Share button that can post selected photos directly to Facebook. However it has the following limitations:

Photos are not uploaded in high quality.
Photos are not uploaded in the correct order. Neither the order of selection nor the order the photos were taken is used exactly.
Photos cannot be uploaded to a new album, only an existing one.

Therefore I recommend the following procedure to upload photos from OS X Photos to Facebook:

In OS X Photos, select all photos that you want to upload by holding Command and clicking each photo.
From the menubar, choose: File > Export > Export N photos…
In the Facebook web interface, choose “Create Album”, selecting all the photo files that you exported in the previous step.
- Ensure the “High Quality” checkbox is checked.

Done.