As someone who always prefers to offer an extra layer of shield to personal information, I have never liked using Facebook’s “Face Recognition” feature as it intrudes into the privacy. For those unfamiliar, the social networking app uses “Face Recognition” technology to analyze your photos and videos and then creates a readymade template. After that, the app uses the template to identify you in other images and videos on Facebook and suggest tags. While this feature could be quite helpful for social networking junkies, those who take privacy very seriously would want to turn it off. If you are one of them, let me show you how you can disable Facebook’s face recognition on iPhone, Android or desktop.
Before going ahead with steps, it would be apt to weigh in the trade-off.
Though turning off the face recognition feature won’t have a big impact on your user experience, it would be better to know the downsides. First and foremost, once you have disabled this feature, Facebook will delete the face recognition template and will no longer use the face recognition to suggest that your friends tag you in photos. Do note that your friends can still tag you in images, but the social networking app won’t suggest tags.
Launch the Facebook app on your mobile device and then tap on the menu button (three-stacked horizontal lines).
Under the Privacy section, tap on Face Recognition.
Open a web browser and head over to facebook.com on your computer.
Next, choose Settings in the menu.
