By Melissa Holt

If you still import items into Photos the old-fashioned way—either through pulling stuff in from Finder or by plugging in a device—then it’s important to know that you can tell the program to add the pictures you’re importing to an existing album, without having to do that as a separate step afterward. Here’s how it works: If what you’re wanting to import is a folder or some individual pictures within Finder, then all you have to do is drag those items directly onto the album to which you’d like to add them, like so:

Photos will automatically import what you dragged and add those pictures to the album you dropped them on!

If what you’re importing, however, is from a device (like your phone or a camera), then the steps are a bit different. What you’ll do in that case is plug in the device, open Photos (if it doesn’t launch automatically), then click on the device in Photos’ sidebar.

Read more at MacObserver.com

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