Facebook Launches Smart Tags for Family Photo Albums
(Facebook launches smart tags for family photo albums)
MENLO PARK, CA – Facebook announced a new feature today. Smart Tags automatically identify family members in photo albums. This tool uses artificial intelligence. It recognizes faces you’ve previously tagged. The system then suggests tags for matching faces across your entire family album collection.
The goal is simplifying photo organization. Finding pictures of specific relatives becomes much faster. Users won’t need to manually tag each person in every photo anymore. This saves considerable time for families sharing large albums.
Privacy controls are central to the feature. Smart Tags only work on albums explicitly shared as “Family Albums” by the user. The AI only suggests tags for people already in your friends list. You must approve every single tag suggestion before it becomes visible. No tags are applied automatically. Users can also disable Smart Tags completely in their settings.
Facebook engineers developed this to address common user feedback. People frequently mentioned the difficulty of managing large family photo collections online. Sorting through hundreds of pictures took too long. The company believes Smart Tags directly solves this problem.
(Facebook launches smart tags for family photo albums)
The rollout starts next week. It will be available globally on Facebook’s mobile apps and website. Access requires the latest version of the Facebook app. The feature will appear gradually for all eligible accounts over the coming month. Facebook provided detailed instructions on its Help Center.