A Facebook feature that lets Meta AI suggest edits to photos saved in your phone’s camera roll but not yet shared is now rolling out to all users in the U.S. and Canada. The company announced Friday that users can now choose whether to receive these sharing suggestions. You’ll then be prompted to make AI edits and post the photo to your Facebook feed or Story.
Facebook’s app, which first rolled out as a test over the summer, pops up a permission dialog box requesting “Allow cloud processing” access so users can get “creative ideas made for you from your camera roll.” This box explains that this feature could provide end users with ideas for collages, summaries, AI restyles, birthday themes, and more.
For the AI to work, Facebook’s app would continually upload images from your device to the cloud. This allows Meta’s AI to make suggested edits. Meta says that unless users edit their media or share edited photos with friends or others on social networks, their media will not be used for ad targeting purposes, nor will they use their media to improve their AI systems.
You can disable this feature at any time.
Meta doesn’t train the AI on every photo of you, but by agreeing to Meta’s AI terms of use, you’re allowing your media and facial features to be analyzed by the AI. By processing photos, Meta has the ability to “summarize image content, modify images, and generate new content based on images,” according to the terms.
The company also uses the dates and presence of people and objects in your photos to develop creative ideas and provide Meta with more information about you, your relationships, and your life.
Additionally, giving Meta access to photos it hasn’t yet shared on its platform could give the company an edge in the AI race by providing rich user data, behavioral insights, and ideas for new AI capabilities.
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The settings for this feature can be found in the Settings section of Facebook’s Settings. There are two toggles on the Camera Roll Sharing Suggestions page. The first allows Facebook to suggest photos from your camera roll when you browse the app. The second is where you can enable or disable “cloud processing” which allows Meta to create AI images using photos from your camera roll.
Meta is leveraging its position as a dominant social network to improve its AI technology, previously announcing that it would train its image recognition AI based on publicly shared data such as posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram. (EU users had until May 27, 2025 to opt out.) The company also announced last year that it would train its AI based on images that Ray-Ban Meta users asked their devices to analyze.
