If you have a lot of photos in your camera roll that you always seem to forget to share with those who are actually in the picture, Facebook is giving you a little push. All you have to do is allow the Messenger app access to your stored photos, get the face recognition up and running, and you’re good to go. Photo Magic is not a photo editing app, but rather a feature that will be built-in into your Messenger if you want to.
While some people have disabled the face recognition feature on their Facebook accounts and apps, there are those who are fascinated with how the social media giant is able to make things easier for them in terms of tagging. So they’re now taking it a step further and will use the face recognition software to give you a little prompt when you haven’t sent pictures of your vacation or party or run-in with an FB friend. The app will send you notifications when it recognizes a friend from your photos in the camera roll.
But of course since there may be privacy issues involved here, this is an opt-in feature. When you’ve said yes, you want Facebook to look at your camera roll and you’ve updated the app, it will look at your most recent photos, recognize your friends in the photo, then send you a prompt to send it with just one tap. And if there is more than one of them in the photo, it will even prompt a new group message thread with all the detected faces on the photo. And when you take a pic next time, you’ll get a notification that will suggest you send this to your friend/friends.
The Photo Magic feature may make the Moments app, also from Facebook, a bit redundant, or vice versa. Let’s see how the 700 million monthly users will react to this and whether it will be convenient or more of an annoying feature, not to mention a privacy violator. For now, this is only available in Australia and for Android users only.
VIA: The Verge
