How to Turn Off Facebook Photo Library Sharing Suggestions

To stop Facebook suggesting posts from your phone’s photo library, turn off Camera roll sharing suggestions in the mobile app’s settings. This changes the suggestion feature; it is separate from the phone permission that controls which photos Facebook can access.

Granting photo access does not automatically publish an album. Meta says its opt-in camera-roll suggestions are private until you choose to share them.

Open the Facebook app and open Menu.
Select Settings & privacy > Settings.
Find Camera roll sharing suggestions or the equivalent photo-library suggestion setting. Use settings search if it is available.
Turn off the option to see suggestions from your camera roll while browsing Facebook.
If the page also offers cloud-processing or creative-suggestion controls, read their descriptions and disable those separately if you do not want them.

Names and available controls vary with app version, region, and rollout. Do not assume an absent setting is enabled. Return to the page to confirm your selected switches remain off.

Limit access to the photo library

On iPhone: open Settings > Privacy & Security > Photos > Facebook. Choose the available limited-access option or None, depending on how much access you want to allow. Apple documents changing app information permissions.

On Android: open the phone’s app settings for Facebook, then inspect Permissions and the photos or media permission. Choose selected-photo access where offered, or deny broad access. Labels vary by Android version and manufacturer.

Restricting access may change which images appear in Facebook’s picker. You can deliberately select a file when you decide to upload it. See checking photo-library access on iPhone for a wider app review.

Check anything already shared separately

Turning off suggestions or library access does not change the audience of existing posts, albums, or Stories. Review those items in Facebook if your concern is content already published.

If you later create a Story, choose its audience before posting; the Facebook Story guide explains that workflow.