Facebook 'Photos of you' only backing up to 2017

[nathaliepearce92]

Hi,
I am trying to get all the ‘tagged’ photos of me, but it’s only doing it up to 2017… Has anyone else had this issue? It’s not that the photos past that point aren’t public or anything so i don’t know what’s gone wrong…

[Tony]

Hi @nathaliepearce92 ,
My apologies for missing this post! We generally answer within a couple of hours, so I am sorry it took so long to see this one.

Facebook instituted a security change a while ago that severely limited the ability to get photos that you are tagged in but do not own. You can read more about this here:

Why can't I see all of the Facebook Photos I am tagged in (Photos of you)?

Facebook’s privacy policies will often prevent odrive access to photos that you are tagged in, but do not own. This is determined by: The photo owner’s privacy settings on their photos, which will need to explicitly allow you to have access to them. If the photo owner has allowed the 3rd party application - odrive in this case - to have access to their content. In other words, they need to have linked their Facebook account to odrive, too. This is a security restriction that Facebook implemen…