How to stop Snap training AI on your data
What the policy itself says, plan by plan. Where Snap publishes the steps, they're here in its own words, read from an archived copy of the page that gives them. Where it doesn't, this page says so instead of inventing a menu path.
Public content (Spotlight, Public Stories, Snap Map)
Where Snap says the switch is, in its own words. Each list is read from a dated, archived copy of the page it links to. Menus move. If a step is out of date, tell us at the foot of this page.
- Tap the settings gear to open Settings.
- Under Privacy Control, tap Manage My Information.
- Turn off the setting for Snap using your Public Content to train generative AI models. It applies going forward only.
"Under "Privacy Control," tap 'Manage My Information'"
"Snap may use the images, videos, audio, and text content that you have posted publicly on Snapchat (such as posts to Spotlight, Public Stories, and the Snap Map) to develop, train, and improve Snap's generative AI content creation models. This may include a combination of automated and human review of this public content."
Private snaps, chats and My AI conversations
The support article that grades the tier above covers public content only. For private snaps, chats between people and conversations with My AI, the privacy policy is what there is, and it says that Snap's "algorithms and machine learning models take into account the conversations Snapchatters are having with My AI to improve the responses" — a sentence that sits equally well with training a model on those conversations and with feeding them in as context at answer time. The policy never picks, and says nothing either way about snaps or about chats between people. Corrected 19 Aug 2026 from a reading that saw only a definition; still UNCLEAR on 10 Sept 2026, now narrowed to private content.
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