You can allow Instagram to make suggestions for what photos and videos to add to your story from your device’s library. You may also see suggestions for what formats you can use or what else you can include in your story (example: Boomerang and stickers.)
Your photos and videos won’t be shared to Instagram unless you choose to add them to your story or elsewhere on Instagram.
What are basic suggestions?
Basic suggestions are automatically turned on if you give Instagram access to your device’s gallery or camera roll. These suggestions are based on metadata about your photos or videos like:
- How recently your photos or videos were taken
- Where your photos or videos were taken
- Photos or videos you favorited
To turn off basic suggestions, follow the steps above.
What are advanced suggestions?
You can turn on advanced suggestions to get more relevant story suggestions. These suggestions are based on things like:
- Metadata about your photos or videos from basic suggestions
- What is in your photos
- The quality of your photos
Instagram uses face detection data and machine learning models to show you more relevant story suggestions. For example, we may use face detection data and machine learning models to process the quality of your photos, whether there are people or other objects in your photos and whether the photos follow Instagram’s
Community Guidelines.
Note that the face detection data used for suggestions is different from facial recognition technology. People in your photos won’t automatically be recognized and matched with other photos they appear in. Face detection looks for the presence of human faces in your photos, but doesn’t identify them.
Face detection data is provided to Instagram by the company who made your device’s operating system (example: Apple iOS, Google Android). Google or Apple processes the photos in your device’s library to determine if there are faces in them and the data from this process is provided to Instagram. Face detection processing used for suggestions is done on your device and data that comes from it is stored on your device, not on Instagram.
If you’ve turned on advanced suggestions and want to turn them off, follow the steps above.