Facebook use face recognition technology so they can offer features that do things like:
- let you tag people quickly and easily
- help protect you from strangers using a photo of you as their profile picture
- help people with visual impairments by telling them who's in a photo or video
- and let you know when you might appear in photos or videos, but haven't been tagged.
You'll only be notified about photos that you're in the audience for.
To figure out if you’re in a photo or video, our system compares it with an analysis of photos and videos such as your profile picture and photos and videos that you’re tagged in.
You can control face recognition in your settings.
- Go to More.
- Tap Privacy Shortcuts.
- Tap More Settings
- Tap Face Recognition.
- Tap Do you want Facebook to be able to recognize you in photos and videos?
- Select Yes if you want to let Facebook recognize you in photos and videos.
- You can turn the setting on or off at any time, which will also apply to any features we add later.
Face recognition technology may not be available to everyone.
