PSA: Flip these two Instagram toggles now to stop people using your face

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Meta this week launched https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/07/meta-ai-app-adds-image-generation-also-powering-whatsapp-and-instagram-features/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">its own AI image model integrated into the https://9to5mac.com/guides/instagram/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Instagram app.

While this might sound useful, it comes with rather a big privacy issue: by default, anyone can use your profile photo and posts as prompts for generative images.

You can fix this by flipping two toggles, but they’re pretty well hidden …