A Facebook feature that gives Meta AI the ability to suggest edits to photos stored on your phone’s camera roll but not yet shared is now available to all users in the US and Canada. company announced On Friday, users can opt out of receiving these sharing suggestions, which will then prompt them to post photos with AI editing to their Facebook feed and Stories.
First launched as a test over the summer, Facebook’s app pops up a permissions dialog box that requests access to “Allow cloud processing” so users can get “creative ideas created for you from your camera roll.” This box explains that the feature can offer ideas like collages, recaps, AI restyling, birthday themes, and more to the end user.
To make the AI work, Facebook’s app will upload images from your device to its cloud on an ongoing basis. This allows Meta’s AI to make its own suggested edits. Meta says users’ media will not be used for ad targeting purposes, and it will not use the media to improve its AI systems, unless the user takes the step of editing the media or sharing the edited photos with friends or others on their social networks.
The feature can be disabled at any time.
However, Meta can’t train its AI on all of your photos when you agree. Meta’s AI Terms of ServiceYou allow your media and facial features to be analyzed by AI. The terms say that, by processing your photos, Meta has the ability to “summarize image content, modify images, and generate new content based on the image.”
The company also uses the date and the presence of people or objects in your photos to tailor its creative ideas, giving Meta a lot more information about you, your relationships, and your life.
Plus, giving Meta access to photos you haven’t yet shared on Meta’s platform could give the company an advantage in the AI race by providing a wealth of user data, behavioral insights, and ideas for new AI features.
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Settings for the feature are found under the Preferences section of Facebook’s Settings. On the “Camera Roll sharing suggestions” page, there are two toggles. The first thing Facebook suggests are photos from your camera roll when you browse the app. The second is where you can enable or disable “Cloud Processing,” which lets Meta create AI images using your Camera Roll photos.
Meta is leveraging its position as a major social network to improve its AI technology and previously announced that it would train its image recognition AI on publicly shared data, including posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram. (EU users had By 27 May 2025To exit out.) Last year, it also said it would train its AI on images that Ray-Ban Meta users asked the device to analyze.
