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

A Facebook feature that gives Meta AI the ability to suggest edits to photos stored in 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 that users can opt-in to receiving these sharing suggestions, which will then prompt them to post photos to their Facebook feed and Stories using AI edits.

The Facebook app was first launched as a test over the summer, showing a permission dialog asking for access to “Allow Cloud Processing” so users can get “creative ideas designed for you from their camera roll.” This box shows that the feature can deliver ideas like collages, summaries, AI redesigns, birthday themes, and more to the end user.

For the AI ​​to work, the Facebook app will continuously upload photos from your device to the cloud. This allows Meta’s AI to make its suggested adjustments. Meta says users’ media will not be used for ad targeting purposes, nor will it use the media to improve its AI systems, unless the user takes the step of editing the media or sharing the edited images with friends or others on its social network.

The feature can be disabled at any time.

Although Meta may not train its AI on all of your photos, when you agree to Meta’s AI Terms of Service, you allow your media and facial features to be analyzed by AI. By processing your images, Meta has the ability to “summarize the image contents, modify the images, and create new content based on the image,” the terms state.

The company also uses the history and presence of people or things in your photos to formulate its creative ideas, giving Meta a lot of information about you, your relationships, and your life.

Additionally, giving Meta access to images that it has not yet shared on Meta 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.

Feature settings can be found under the Preferences section of Facebook Settings. On the Camera Roll Sharing Suggestions page, there are two options to toggle. The first allows Facebook to suggest photos from your camera roll when browsing the app. The second is where you can enable or disable “cloud processing,” which allows Meta to create AI images using camera images.

Meta is leveraging its position as a dominant social network to improve its AI technology, and previously announced that it would train AI to recognize images on publicly shared data, including posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram. (EU users had until May 27, 2025 to opt out.) Last year, it also said it would train its AI on images that Ray-Ban Meta users asked the device to analyze.