Recently, Meta AI started popping up all over my Facebook app and it’s getting really distracting. I can’t find an option to turn it off or hide it. Has anyone figured out how to disable or remove Meta AI features from the Facebook app? Would really appreciate any advice or step-by-step help.
Oh man, preach! The Meta AI stuff is EVERYWHERE now—search bar, Messenger, even those random suggestions that just scream ‘I know you better than you know yourself.’ Spoiler: it doesn’t. There’s no official way to turn it off, unfortunately. Meta hasn’t given us a disable or hide option, basically treating their AI assistant like a clingy ex who won’t get the hint. Closest you can get is ignoring its existence or trying to use third-party wrappers for Facebook (depends on your device; some Android third-party FB apps block pop-ups), but that’s a whole headache and comes with its own risks. I’ve looked everywhere in the settings—privacy, notification, app settings, even tried toggling random things just in case, but nada.
If you’re on desktop, some folks talk about browser extensions or using an adblocker to block certain scripts, but that’s just a bandaid at best and could break other site features. My work-around is just to scroll past and internally eye roll so hard I could see my brain cells leaving. If by miracle FB gives us a toggle, I’ll be first in line, but for now, we’re stuck with it. Meta seems to think we all need AI in our faces 24/7. Yay progress.
Oh, trust me, I feel your pain. Meta AI popping up all over is like that one dude at the party who corners you and just won’t stop talking about crypto. I know @boswandelaar mentioned browser extensions and third-party apps and honestly, that’s one rabbit hole I don’t plan to go down. I’d hate to lose even more privacy or break the already fragile Facebook experience just to shut up an overzealous chatbot.
But here’s my hot take: I actually think it might be somewhat intentional that there isn’t an disable button. Think of it—AI integration is Meta’s shiny new toy, and they want as much user exposure (and data, let’s be real) as possible. If they added a Toggle Off AI switch, half the people would hit it immediately and Meta would lose their usage data. From what I’ve seen in forums and a couple Reddit threads, there’s literally zero per-account settings to turn it off, and tanking your app with random blocks or scripts just risks losing core features or making things buggy.
What I started doing instead is reporting the AI popups as “irrelevant” or “spam” (it lets you do that on some prompts). It probably doesn’t do squat, but a dreamer can dream. As for disabling Messenger AI, nope—unless you want to ditch Messenger entirely and switch back to SMS like you’re living in 2005, which sounds even worse.
So unless the outcry gets loud enough, prepare yourself for more and more AI “assistance.” Welcome to the future, we didn’t ask for it, but it’s here anyway. If anyone cracks the code or finds a hidden setting, blast it everywhere! Until then, I guess it’s just grunt and scroll.