If OneDrive photo tagging isn't for you, here's how to disable the feature

[Windows Central]

If you don't want OneDrive to look at your pictures to add tags, you can use these steps to disable the feature.
Microsoft OneDrive can automatically scan your pictures using AI to create and apply tags based on their content to make them easy to find using specific keywords (such as dog, beach, mountain, etc.) when doing a search.
Although this is a convenient feature to find pictures quickly since nowadays we no longer pay attention to file names, it's not a feature for everyone as many people may consider it a privacy concern even though Microsoft assures that there are many security measures in place to keep everything private.

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