How do I to stop iOS Photo App automatically creating movies?

When I view a picture selected from an album in Photos the app is now automatically creating a movie, scrolling through the album photos, and adding an annoying sound track. Toggling off create memories and featured photos in settings is not working. Please advise.


iPhone 11, iOS 18

Posted on Mar 2, 2025 08:50 PM

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Posted on Mar 3, 2025 09:28 AM

In Photos, while viewing an album, tap the button with the two arrows in the lower left corner and tap "Viweing Options" in the menu that will appear. At the Botton is an option to turn off the annoying video preview of the album.


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Mar 5, 2025 07:13 AM in response to Baroque_Hillbilly

Baroque_Hillbilly wrote: Whoever the bored "ideas" person was who thought adding a movie track to pictures was a good idea should be put out to pasture... or worse. This is a prime example of what a recent Bill Maher programme called "Reverse Improvement":

They added something and gave us a way to turn it off. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. Maybe it's "bored" folks who call hard working people names for no reason who "should be put out to pasture..."


Mar 5, 2025 01:45 PM in response to Richard.Taylor

Well, YMMV, as they say :) Fair point, I suppose. But I'm a "optional opt-in" kinda guy, rather than "optional opt-out." It seems to me that many new features are more eye candy than practical improvements, and the above very definitely falls into that category for me, and apparently some others.


Steve Jobs' line that "People don't know what they want until you show it to them" may still have some merit, if what you're offering them really makes things easier/better and improves operational experience. But I'm "a bit older", having run Macs (and the odd Windaz machine) for... well... a long time, and anything I find distracting or annoying gets short shrift. But as long as we have the option of disabling it, I can cope.

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