For those who may be too busy to look through their smartphone’s camera rolls, Meta Platforms has debuted a new Facebook feature that will parse collections for you, then recommend “fun” edits and collages to make the content more shareable. The feature could also offer ideas such as recaps and birthday themes. Available to users in the U.S. and Canada, to leverage this new AI-powered feature, one must opt-in, and it can be turned off at any time. Once a suggestion is reviewed, the user can then determine whether they want to share it and with whom. Then it’s just a one-click share through Facebook or Messenger.

“First launched as a test over the summer, Facebook’s app pops up a permission dialog box requesting access to ‘allow cloud processing,’ so users can get ‘creative ideas made for you from your camera roll,’” reports TechCrunch.

Because the feature is designed to “surface ‘hidden gems’ that are ‘lost among screenshots, receipts, and random snaps’” on your smartphone — not pull from media that’s already been uploaded to Facebook — in addition to making presentation suggestions “the opt-in feature will also give Meta a chance to improve its AI using your camera roll,” The Verge suggests.

In a news post, Facebook points out that “unless you choose to edit this media with our AI tools, or share,” the company won’t share it. The Verge sought further clarification on the point at which Meta AI begins using unpublished photos to train on, asking if it happens “when you opt into the new feature? After you choose to edit something with the tool? Or only after you choose to share the resulting creation?”

The response indicated that while Meta “will collect and store your photos in the cloud and Meta’s AI will get to look at them,” the material won’t be used for training “unless you take an additional action,” like editing or sharing, “at least for now,” The Verge writes. “In June, Meta told us that it might hold onto some of that data for longer than 30 days” but claimed “your media won’t be used for ad-targeting.”

The announcement refers readers to the Meta Privacy Policy to learn more.

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Introducing Vibes: A New Way to Discover and Create AI Videos, Meta, 9/25/25
Meta Previews Its Vibes AI Video Generator for Social Sharing, ETCentric, 10/3/25