Bulk actions on photos
Written By Nick
Last updated 5 days ago
Multi-select mode lets you act on many photos at once — adding or removing tags, setting a moment, deleting, or downloading. It lives behind the third view toggle above the photo grid.
How to use multi-select
Above the photo grid, click the multi-select view toggle (the checkbox icon, third in the row).
Click any photo to toggle its checkbox. Click as many as you want.
Use Select All in the action bar to select everything currently visible.
Click an action in the bar: Add Tags, Remove Tags, Set Moment, Delete, or Download.
Click Exit Selection when you're done.
[Screenshot: Multi-select mode active, with the action bar visible above a grid of photos]
A note on Select All
Select All selects every photo currently visible in the grid — meaning it respects whatever filters or search you have active. If you've filtered to "Favorited only" and click Select All, you select the favorited photos, not the whole album.
This is the cleanest way to scope a bulk action: filter first, then Select All, then run your action.
What each action does
Add Tags
Opens a popover anchored to the action bar. Type a tag, press Enter or click + to queue it, repeat for as many as you want, then click Apply. Queued tags are added to each selected photo on top of whatever tags they already have. Nothing existing gets removed.
Remove Tags
Same popover pattern. Type the tag you want to strip out, queue it, click Apply. If a selected photo doesn't have one of the tags you're removing, it's silently skipped — no error.
Set Moment
Pick a moment from the dropdown and click Apply. The chosen moment overwrites whatever moment each selected photo had before, even if they were previously different.
Delete
Permanently removes the selected photos from the album. Photos already used in generated posts are removed from those posts as well.
Download
Downloads the selected photos.
Things worth knowing
Selection persists as you scroll and even if you change filters mid-flow. You can filter to "Favorited only," select a few, switch to a moment filter, select more, and run an action against the combined set.
Edits don't retroactively change post captions. Adding tags or setting moments updates the photos themselves, but posts already generated from those photos keep their existing captions and selections. Only future generations use the new metadata.
Bulk delete is permanent. There's no undo.
There's a second path for Delete and Download — the More menu (3-dot icon at top right of the album page) has dedicated Delete photos and Download photos options that open full-page selection screens. Use those when you'd rather start from a clean selection screen instead of clicking through the grid.