Can’t change the playback speed or display pictures from Photo app post update

Same here - I have upgraded to iPadOS 18.1 and all the setting options are gone:

• I can't adjust the speed of the slideshow anymore
• I can't play one full photo at a time - the pictures are being cropped and weirdly arranged
• I can't adjust the transition style
• I have included short videos that are now not playing in full length anymore, but are cut off after a few seconds

Typical case of not thoroughly tested software update, or trying to make things fancy without understanding typical use cases first, I assume.

It is now December, and no fix for this problem? This is so frustrating and careless. Why rush an update until you know all the bugs are worked out?

I have the same issue slide ever since I upgraded to iOS 18 I have been having the same issue watching a slideshow where you can control the speed on your TV is not possible. The image will be displayed on the TV but no slideshow. The slideshow is going through either my iPad or my iPhone. I have been on the phone with Apple Tech this morning. Spent half an hour with one and another 40 minutes with another one and they couldn’t figure out so it must be a bug hopefully the next update they will fix it most likely they won’t tell us what they fixed. I think somebody missed that point. My workaround hand it up, loading the images on a computer, and then I mirrored the screen to the TV with the code that they gave me from my TV screen.

When is this getting fixed? I put a slideshow together for a retirement party and the pace of the slides is enough to give the people there a stroke. Plus you can barely register a photo and enjoy the memory without it flying by. I can't believe this was logged as an issue in October and Apple hasn't resolved. The holidays are here, people want their photos as they want them.

You can't export a slide show from the Photos App, please clarify your answer. the original discussion on playback speed as well as being able to play a slide show without cropping images. The point is since iOS 18, there were some drastic changes to Photos app, you can't Air Play like before, there is music in the background, can't control the speed. Hoping some Tech from Apple reads this, they didn't even fix it in 18.2?

Same issues as others and it’s March 2025 with iOS 18.3.1 on 5th Gen iPad Pro 12.9. This is outrageous- trying to do slide show for my dad’s Celebration of life and there’s no way any of us can appreciate or even recognize the photos at that speed and editing!

OK, so can you tell me which OS you are using? You say you're using an iPad, but you said that you're using iOS18, which is an iPhone OS. You also say that you're using iPadOS15. Which is it?

When I said "clarify… exactly what you are doing," I meant what steps do you go through and what happens. You can use the links I sent to help specify the steps. How is what you get different than what you did before?

Have you put the pictures you chose for your slideshow in an album of their own?

So I think there is a work around - select all the photos in the album, then select make a (new) slideshow. The new slideshow seems to have the available settings. Anyway, this is what I did and I got the settings I needed🤷‍♂️ Doesn't seem like Apple is stepping up to bat!🤬

Mac_User007 wrote:

I can’t believe Apple tech support are suggesting this long workaround. I hope it’s a temporary solution until next fix. My workaround is use mirroring rather than Airplay.

It is not a work-around for the problem described here. The page in the user guide just describes what is currently possible on iOS 18. But it still offers no solution, if we want to adjust the tempo of the slideshow, and there is still no way to use our own music as a background track for the slideshow.

• This advice "Tap Short Duration, Medium Duration, or Long Duration" will just change the number of the items in the slideshow to make it longer or shorter, but not adjust the speed.
• As to the music, we still can only use the theme music or songs from Music, but none of the own songs we added to our Music Library. when I am picking any song I created myself with GarageBand or Logc, I'm getting an error message "This song cannot be used".

I completely agree! I didn’t even know this was an issue until tonight. I have my Christmas party with my family and I put together a slideshow of all of our old Christmas photos from when we were little and then how things have changed and how we’ve grown and I can’t do that now because Everything that everyone has said is happening and this is terrible!!!!!

I tried what you suggested however, on my version, it does not give a slideshow option. It just tells me I can save it to another album or shared album 😓 when I tried that it just gave me the same problem.

iOS 18.3 has arrived and Apple doesn’t care about their customers frustration with their changes made to photos.

WTH? Come on Apple, we don’t like your slideshows, we want to do it ourselves. Your blowing it for long term users.

Almost accidentally I found a workaround to this problem. In an article (from Apple News, of all places) on uses for old iPads, there it was, an app called "Synced Photo Frame by Re-Frame". Free download, but ten bucks once started. It works very much like the "old" Apple slideshow function, able to select one or more of your iCloud albums, set duration, etc. I hate that Apple downgraded their own app and won't listen to its users, but this was definitely worth the ten buck to me. We now have pictures of vacations, family weddings, our grandchild, etc, streaming to a dedicated iPad every day.

No, I do not have any association with this app or the company that sells it.

Here’s a link to let them know how we feel about what they did. And ask them to return the options.

Product Feedback - Apple

You say iOS 18, but you list an iPad Air 2 as your device. Are you talking about an iPhone or an iPad?

Slide shows are saved as Memories. Are you editing a Memory?

Perhaps you can look at this:

Make and play slideshows on iPhone - Apple Support

And at this:

Personalize your memories in Photos on iPhone - Apple Support

If you can clarify what device you're using and exactly what you are doing, we may be able to help further.