Facebook’s Your Algorithm feature lets people tell the app, in ordinary language, which topics they want to see more or less often in Feed and Reels. Meta announced the rollout on October 13, 2026, saying recommendations can respond within the same session. The control is reached from a post’s three-dot menu, while Interested and Not interested feedback can trigger follow-up questions.
What is Facebook Your Algorithm?
Your Algorithm is a topic-management control for Facebook’s recommended content. According to Meta’s October 13 announcement, it lets users add and manage subjects they want the recommendation system to consider in both Feed and Reels.
The important distinction is that this is not a switch that turns Facebook’s ranking system off. Meta says the written preferences are combined with what the company already understands about a person’s interests. Likes, comments, watch behavior and other activity therefore continue to influence recommendations.
Independent reporting from The Verge confirmed that Facebook is bringing a control already used on Instagram to Facebook and is using large language models to interpret free-form requests. That allows the system to process instructions more nuanced than a simple topic checkbox.
How to use Facebook Your Algorithm
- Open Facebook and find a post or Reel related to the recommendations you want to adjust.
- Select the three-dot menu on that post.
- Choose Your Algorithm to review, add or manage topics, if the option has reached your account.
- Write plainly what you want to see more of or less of. A specific topic is more useful than a vague instruction.
- You can also choose Interested or Not interested. Facebook may ask a follow-up question so you can explain the preference in your own words.
Meta describes this as a rollout, so the control may not appear for every account at exactly the same time. Updating the Facebook app can rule out an outdated version, but Meta has not promised that every user will receive the option on a particular day.
What changes after you enter a preference?
Meta says Feed and Reels recommendations update in real time and can adapt within the same session. In practical terms, that means a new instruction may start changing suggested content before a user closes the app.
However, “respond right away” should not be read as a promise that every unwanted post will disappear. Facebook still ranks content using many signals, and Meta has not published a formula showing how much weight a typed preference receives compared with viewing, liking, commenting or sharing behavior.
That limitation matters. If you ask for fewer posts about a topic but continue watching or engaging with it, the system receives mixed signals. The safest conclusion from Meta’s wording is that Your Algorithm adds a direct signal; it does not erase all previous activity or guarantee a perfectly filtered feed.
Does Your Algorithm change ads or posts from friends?
Meta’s announcement specifically describes recommendations in Feed and Reels. It does not say that the tool changes ad targeting, unfollows people or Pages, blocks accounts, or removes posts shared directly by friends.
Those jobs still require their own controls. Users who want to stop seeing an account should use unfollow, snooze or block tools. Ad preferences are managed separately. Your Algorithm is best understood as a way to steer recommended topics, not as a universal Facebook settings panel.
Can creators optimize for Your Algorithm?
Meta has not announced a special creator setting, ranking trick or required format for this feature. Creators should be cautious about claims that certain phrases will automatically make posts appear in more feeds.
The defensible implication is narrower: clear subject matter may help recommendation systems understand what a post is about, but Meta has not said that repeating keywords boosts distribution. Creators should keep titles, captions and on-screen context accurate instead of stuffing topic labels.
The change arrives as Facebook continues to make Reels more central to discovery. Our earlier explanation of Facebook’s Reels-first test in India provides context on that broader direction. Meta has also been adding creation tools across its apps, including the Instagram Edits carousel editor.
What Facebook has not confirmed
Meta has confirmed the control, its location in the three-dot menu, plain-language input and real-time recommendation response. It has not published a complete rollout schedule, a country-by-country availability list, an exact weighting formula or evidence that the control produces permanent changes.
For now, the most useful way to test Facebook Your Algorithm is to enter one specific preference, observe Feed and Reels over several sessions, and reinforce the choice with Interested or Not interested feedback. That approach matches the controls Meta has actually documented without assuming more precision than the company has promised.
