Meta wants access to the photos in your device’s camera roll. Yes, the ones you haven’t posted or uploaded online for various reasons – intimate, raw, it could even be proprietary, Meta doesn’t care, it just wants to feed it to its AI.

To turn off this feature and stop Meta from getting to the photos in your camera roll, do the following:

1. Open the Facebook app and make sure you’re signed into your account.
2. On the upper right corner, tap on your profile pic to open the Menu section.
3. Scroll down and tap on Settings & Privacy.
4. Select Settings.
5. Scroll down and tap on “Camera roll sharing suggestions”.
6. Turn off both toggle switches labelled “Custom sharing suggestions from your camera roll” and “Get camera roll suggestions when you’re browsing Facebook”.

If one or both of those toggle switches are already on, then Meta is actively scanning, processing and retaining your photos to train its AI. Turning off those toggle switches will stop it.