Facebook’s AI can now suggest edits to the photos still on your phone

A Facebook feature that gives Meta AI the ability to suggest edits to photos saved to your phone’s camera roll but not yet shared is now rolling out to all users in the US and Canada. The company announced on Friday, users can choose to sign up to receive these sharing suggestions, which will then prompt them to post photos to their Facebook feed and stories with the AI ​​edits.

First launched as a test over the summer, the Facebook app opens a permission dialog asking for access to “allow cloud processing” so users can “get creative ideas for you from your camera roll.” This box explains that the feature can provide ideas such as collages, summaries, AI restyling, birthday themes and more for the end user.

For the AI ​​to work, Facebook’s app would continuously upload images from your device to the cloud. This allows Meta’s AI to perform the suggested operations. Meta says that users’ media will not be used for ad targeting purposes, and that it will not use the media to improve its AI systems unless the user takes the step to edit the media or share the edited photos with friends or others on their social network.

The function can be disabled at any time.

Although Meta may not train its AI on all your photos, if you agree Meta’s AI Terms of Serviceallows 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 presence of people or objects in your photos to shape its creative ideas, giving Meta much more information about you, your relationships and your life.

Additionally, giving Meta access to photos you haven’t yet shared on Meta’s platforms 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.

Settings for the feature can be found under the Preferences section of Facebook’s Settings. On the ‘Camera Roll Sharing Suggestions’ page, there are two toggles. The first allows Facebook to suggest photos from your camera roll while browsing the app. The second is where you can enable or disable ‘cloud processing’, which allows Meta to create AI images using your camera roll photos.

Meta has leveraged its position as the dominant social network to improve its AI technology and had 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 until May 27, 2025Unpleasant unsubscribe.) Last year it also said it would train its AI on images that Ray-Ban Meta users asked the device to analyze.