New Facebook Messenger app reminds you to send photos to friends

In the past, Facebook did scan photos for recognizable faces, but only after they were uploaded onto the internet. The function uses exactly the same technology as its picture label propositions.

Peter Martinazzi, Facebook Messenger’s product manager has said that when you have a new picture, irrespective of if you clicked the picture through the camera app or any other app, and it enters your camera roll, they will detect faces in the picture.

Evaluations will do so on iOS later this week, using the attribute accessible the United States in the not too distant future and have started in Australia on Android. (The Messenger and Moments teams collaborated on Photo Magic, particularly around the face recognition elements.) Moments works the same way, but there’s a catch: friends needs to have Moments installed in order to view the photos you send them.

On Android, it’ll ask users in a few seconds to share it via Messenger. If the user accepts, Photo Magic will open a fresh conversation with the friend right away or a group message if the photo is being sent to multiple friends. Called “Photo Magic” the feature is basically your proactive version of tagging photos of your friends in messenger.

For many years, Facebook has been scanning photos for recognizable faces after customers uploaded them.

Facebook is going to be active in your camera roll soon…if you allow it. The social network giant is now running tests for its newest feature in Facebook messenger in Australia.

If the results are positive, it’s a possibility that this new Facebook feature will roll out worldwide.

It took until 2014 for “Tag Suggest”, as the initial facial recognition feature is known, to return to European shores, and even then it was only in a limited fashion: Europeans can use the feature to tag US users who happen to have it turned on, but can’t set Facebook to automatically recognise other Europeans.