Facebook has been listening to your conversations since 2014. Many claim Facebook is involved in listening to your conversation with your smartphone microphone. When we install apps, we certainly give permissions to run the app with full features. One of them is giving access to the microphone. When you install Facebook app, it asks to access your camera and microphone.
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Recently Kelli Burns, a communications professor at South Florida states that she believes Facebook listening all conversations while the app is open. This passive listening technology by Facebook is in the news for users security concerns.
Why is Facebook doing this? They listen to users conversation to show relevant ads better. For example, if you are talking more about dog biscuits while the Facebook app is open, you most probably get Dog Buiscut posts in your Facebook feed.
For example, to make Facebook calls from Chrome, allow camera and mic access to permit Facebook to use the hardware during the call. Chrome also needs to allow pop-ups for Facebook or Messenger to ensure that calls can come through.
Facebook does not use your phone’s microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed. Some recent articles have suggested that we must be listening to people’s conversations in order to show them relevant ads. This is not true. We show ads based on people’s interests and other profile information – not what you’re talking out loud about.
We only access your microphone if you have given our app permission and if you are actively using a specific feature that requires audio. This might include recording a video or using an optional feature we introduced two years ago to include music or other audio in your status updates.
How to turn off the microphone on Facebook for Android?
You can turn off the given Microphone permission to Facebook from device settings. The below steps are meant for Android Nougat operating system.
- Open Settings on your Android device.
- Go to “Apps”
- Here scroll down and tap on Facebook.
- Now scroll down and click on “App permissions”
- Now turn off “Microphone” access.
How to turn off the microphone on Facebook for iOS?
- Go to the Settings
- Scroll down to Facebook, and tap on it.
- Tap “Settings”
- Turn off the slider for Microphone (it turns grey when it off)
How to turn off the microphone in Facebook Messenger?
- Open the Settings app on your iOS device.
- Now, tap Privacy.
- Tap on Microphone.
- Here tap the Messenger switch to turn it off.
Above are default steps to turn off Microphone permissions to Facebook. We have many ways to turn off microphone access to Facebook.
In other ways uninstalling social network apps from your smartphone is best practice. However, many people won’t agree with this option, but luckily we can block the access by using some apps.
Microphone Blocker – Anti Spyware
Microphone Blocker is an Android app designed especially for paranoid about their privacy. This app comes in both free and paid versions. Microphone Blocker simply blocks all apps Microphone access with a simple click. This app is pretty useful if you want to disable the microphone access to all installed apps on your device.
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When you are talking with a friend about a product and in the next moment you saw related ads to that product on your device while browsing, how creepy it is? That happened with me and I am not sure Facebook is listening to our voices or not. But it’s better to take action and turn the microphone off for the apps. Just turn it on for the app when you want to use it. There are a lot of stories on social and on print media about the apps using users microphones in order to serve them with the related ads. This is a very weird situation for the users because now apps are recording their personal conversation for their very own purposes. Although Facebook has denied the allegation and stated that it doesn’t use the audio recording for ad-targeting purposes or for any other purpose.
This is an unusual situation, whenever you install any third party apps in your phone, they ask you to give permission to access your microphone. Willingly or unwillingly, many users give permission to those apps in order to run them on their phones. When you first installed the Facebook app, maybe you too have given permission to Facebook to access your microphone.
Comment by a Facebook user
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Facebook is now listening to my work conversations and suggesting high tech companies for ads. I have never done or searched anything high tech related on my phone. This is ridiculous.
Note: one thing to be noted here that if you cut Facebook’s access to your microphone, you will not be able to send audio chat to your friends until unless you re-enable it again.
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Don’t worry, we will teach you that how to revoke Facebook’s microphone access to your phone.
iPhone
To disable microphone in Facebook app iPhone or iPad you need to follow these steps on your iOS device.
- Go to the Settings app
- Scroll down to Facebook, tap it
- Go to Microphone, see if the slider is green.
- Turn off the slider for Microphone (it should be grey instead of green)
- Go back and scroll down to Messenger, tap it.
- Go to Microphone, see if the slider is green.
- Turn off the slider for Microphone (it should be grey instead of green)
Safari
To turn off microphone for the Facebook mobile website when you are using it in the Safari browser on your iPhone or iPad. Just complete these steps.
- Open up the Settings on your iOS device.
- Scroll down and look for the Safari app and tap on it.
- Under the Privacy & Security section turn off the switch “Camera & Microphone Access”
Now, camera and microphone access are also blocked for the Facebook mobile website in the Safari browser. If you are using any other browser for Facebook on your iOS device then to disable microphone simple follow the above steps and in step-2 look for the Chrome app and the remaining steps are same.
Android
If you are using Facebook app on Android phone and you want to turn the microphone off for the Facebook app. Just follow the given steps below and turn the microphone off on any Android phone.
- Go to Settings
- Scroll down to Apps and tap it.
- From the upper right side of the screen tap on the menu icon.
- From the drop-down menu, tap on App permission.
- Find microphone, tap on it.
- Find the Facebook app, see if the slider is blue
- Turn off the slider for Microphone (it should be grey instead of blue)
- Find the Messenger app, see if the slider is blue
- Turn off the slider for Microphone (it should be grey instead of blue)
Windows 10
Facebook app for Windows is also available in the Windows Store. Those who use this app can limit the Facebook app using the microphone on Windows 10, follow these steps
- On Windows 10 click the Start button left-bottom corner and select Setting (Gear) icon. Shortkey: Windows+I keyboard keys combination will option the Settings window.
- On the Settings windows, click Privacy and on the left side select Microphone.
- Now, on the right side, you will see the list of apps with on/off slider next to each app. For the Facebook app just turn the slider to off position.
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After doing the steps above you successfully stop Facebook from listening to your voice on the device. To disable microphone access for some other apps, just select a different app (Step-2 for iPhone and Step-6 in Android) while selecting in the settings and the reaming process is same to turn off the microphone.
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