How to you find and rediscover forgotten moments from long ago? With the Memories feature in Photos!
Great digital cameras like on the iPhone and iPad mean we can take as many photos as we want, whenever we want. That's amazing, because we can record any moment, at any time. It's also terrible, because we end up with so many photos we forget about the ones we took even a short time ago. The new iOS 10 Memories feature in the Photos app hopes to change that by surfacing not only images we haven't seen in a while, but grouping them together, adding music, and making them into something more.
- How to find Memories in Photos
- How to search Memories
- How to start a slideshow in Memories
- How to change your slideshow theme in Memories
- How to edit your title, music, duration, and photos in a Memories slideshow
- How to save a Memories slideshow
- How to delete certain photos from a Memories slideshow
- How to a make Memories slideshow a favorite
- How to delete a Memories slideshow
- How to see who was in your Memories slideshow
- How to see on a map where a specific Memories slideshow took place
How to find Memories in Photos
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
Tap on a memory to watch it.
How to search Memories
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
Tap the Search button in the upper right corner. (Looks like a magnifying glass.)
Enter a time or search term to help find a particular memory.
How to start a slideshow in Memories
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
- Tap the memory you would like to see.
Tap the play button on the large photo at the top of the screen.
To pause the slideshow, simply tap the screen and a pause button will appear along the bottom menu bar.
How to change your slideshow theme in Memories
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
Tap the memory you would like to see.
- Tap the play button on the large photo at the top of the screen.
Tap the screen anywhere.
- Tap the pause button that appears at the bottom of the screen.
To pick your theme, swipe left and right on the menu bar directly underneath the slideshow to pick from options like dreamy, sentimental, gentle, chill, happy, uplifting, epic, club, extreme.
How to edit your title, music, duration, and photos in a Memories slideshow
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
Tap the memory you would like to see.
- Tap the play button on the large photo at the top of the screen.
- Tap the screen anywhere.
Tap the pause button that appears at the bottom of the screen.
- Tap the editing menu in the lower right corner.
- Tap on title, music, duration, or photos & videos to adjust your settings.
Tap Done when you are happy with your settings.
How to save a Memories slideshow
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
Tap the memory you would like to see.
- Tap the play button on the large photo at the top of the screen.
- Tap the screen anywhere.
Tap the pause button that appears at the bottom of the screen.
- Tap the share button in the lower left corner of the screen.
Tap save video.
How to delete certain photos from a Memories slideshow
Let's say a memory contains someone you no longer see and no longer want to see, or a place that you left and don't want to be reminded of. Delete it, and Memories will move on and help you do likewise!
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
Tap the memory you would like to see.
- Tap select in the upper right corner.
- Tap the photos you would like to remove from the slideshow.
Tap the garbage can in the lower right corner.
When the prompt appears, you can either choose to delete the photos or cancel the action altogether if you made a mistake and picked the wrong pictures.
How to a make Memories slideshow a favorite
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
Tap the memory you would like to see.
- Scroll until you make it to the bottom of the screen.
- Tap Add to Favorite Memories.
If you want to remove a memory from your favorites, simply repeat the same steps. "Add to Favorite Memories" will be "Remove from Favorite Memories".
How to delete a Memories slideshow
If an entire memory slideshow isn't too your liking, you can get rid of the whole thing.
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
Tap the memory you would like to see.
- Scroll until you make it to the bottom of the screen.
- Tap Delete Memory.
- Tap Delete Memory again when the prompt appears on your screen.
How to see who was in your Memories slideshow
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
Tap the memory you would like to see.
- Starting scrolling down until you see the "Groups & People" section.
- Swipe left and right to see whose faces appeared in your slideshow.
How to see on a map where a specific Memories slideshow took place
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap Memories in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. It looks like a triangle with an arrow circling it.
Tap the memory you would like to see.
- Starting scrolling down until you see the "Places" section.
Tap the map to see where each of those photos were taken.
You can also tap show nearby photos at the bottom of the screen to see some other pictures taken close to the ones in the memory you're looking at.
Any questions?
If you have any questions about how to use Memories in Photos, ask away in the comments!
Reader comments
How to use Memories in Photos for iOS 10
Is it available with the public beta? I still see Shared at the bottom where Memories would be...
I get the same thing on my ipad with the public beta..
So in others words Apple is trying to be just like Google with their photos app.
Is it possible to create a memory? Id like to add photos to an existing one but it will only give me a small selection of photos to choose from.
I have the same issue, I want to add more photos but the selection is so limited.
The method described for deleting certain photos from a memory slideshow does not work I doubt that this was ever tested by the writer.
Actually, it does work. Try again.
Well, the prompt says it will delete the selected photos from my iCloud library, not only from the Memory. So it technically does work but in a more destructive way than just deleting from the Memory. Seems like there would be a way to selectively remove photos from a Memory.
Ok. I figured it out. To remove specific photos only from the memory, you have to first view the Memory, then pause it, then tap the edit/sliders button at the bottom right screen. There, you can remove individual items from the Memory. The author should update the guide to reflect this.
How do i change the title picture of the movie? i know i can change the text, but cant figure out how to change the title video. Also, wanted to see if there is a way to change the "zoom-in/out", since sometimes the selection the algorithm makes, cuts out an important part of the picture.
thanks
Hi, I have the same problem. Seems that nobody issued with it before or there is no way on editing the title picture.
I also faced same problem though I like the memory feature very much
1) how to change title pic
2) how to change order of pic
So far, when comparing Memories to achieving the same effect in iMovie, iMovie gives you a lot more control with approximately the same amount of effort. In iMovie you can easily change the order of the photos and videos and you can specify what the picture looks like at the beginning and the end of a move ("zoom in, zoom out" -- what Apple calls the Ken Burns effect).
What Memories does have going for it is a nice selection of music. Unless someone can show me a way to re-order the photos and videos in an album... and create a Memories album from scratch, I think I have to stick with iMovie. Once you start fiddling with a Memories album you might as well use the easier to adjust iMovie--more control, about the same amount of time involved. What do you folks think?
Hi, please can you help? I have upgraded to iOS 10 on my iPad and iPhone but the memories tab is only showing on my iPhone and not the iPad!
Is it possible to display photos in Memories in custom order ?