Photo use with out my consent

Not sure what Meta update you are referring to. As for a Meta app, it is you that must grant permission for Meta to access your photos. If you previously gave them access to your Photos, you can turn that off to prevent any further access to your photos, but they could easily already have any of your previous photos on their servers that would not be removed. You would need to contact Meta for their Privacy Policy on what they do with the data you have given them permission to access.

About privacy and Location Services in iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS - Apple Support

Personally I would not be giving Meta access to my photos. Here is a page that discusses the option of sharing photos with Facebook and how to prevent it.

https://www.bgr.com/tech/facebook-wants-you-to-give-meta-ai-access-to-every-photo-on-your-phone/

Another initiative that is now being pushed is to combine your accounts with them on their different platforms into a single account. Review this page to see if the prompt you see is one shown there.

https://techweez.com/2026/06/02/meta-unified-account-system-facebook-instagram-threads/

Depending on what you mean by “consent” here, the Meta user agreement allows Meta great latitude in using and re-using and accessing your own data and metadata, based on my own not-a-lawyer reading of that then-Facebook user agreement some years ago. The agreement seemingly sought to grant most anything then-Facebook could imagine wanting, for any use or re-use, forever.

As for a third-party app accessing your iPhone or iCloud contents, I wouldn’t assume Meta can access your photo data due to device permissions, but I would assume Meta will wish to access that and other data and metadata, and apps can still gather a fair chunk of data without triggering permissions dialogs.

See the (free) Loupe app for details on some of what data can be collected by apps.

And I would assume that access permission granted any data-acquisitive vendor even transiently would get most all associated data collected.

But… If you have questions about Meta, and Meta apps, or changes to same, best contact Meta, as well as folks that are subject and/or legal experts in this area.

Hey thanks for that info . Ok I opened my face book page Sunday and a message from a Meta app. Said that it was taking over all my social media sites and it would combine the three I was using under one umbrella so I didn’t have to switch between those different social media platforms to send photos and then use my photos whenever it wanted to . That’s when I reached out to get more information on this subject .

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