How to edit Featured Photos on Iphone

You can remove a photo from featured photos - see here. https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-change-featured-photo-on-iphone/

but I haven’t found how to add one. But as you remove more come up so hopefully ones you like will replace. I had to remove a few to get ones I like.

Apple has no plan to let you customize what photo to display under “your photo” or the featured photo widget. It’s been that way since the Apple Watch photos widget in Series 0 days.

no plan at all within 5 years.

It seems reasonably obvious to me it's an intended action, not a bug. It's a featured photo. If you get a featured story on the news or a feature display in a shop, it's the shop or the newspaper that gets to decide what's featured.

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When you delete the featured photos, they will be deleted from your Photos Library and not just removed from the Featured album. Do that only, if you do not like the photo and want to delete it everywhere. Use the Remove command and not the Delete command.

Came here as I figured there must be an obvious answer to this. The photo widget is great but I may not want all manner of personal pics being showcased on my main Home Screen.

and can’t believe the answer is ‘tough’. In this era of personal customisation it’s laughable that Apple thought this approach was a good one, and frankly any Business Analyst or Dev worth their salt would have raised this as a major omission in functionality.

yes it may have been like it for years but this is the first time the photo widget has been even vaguely usable to the masses.

Apple should fix this gap ASAP, otherwise the photo widget will be as useless as a widget that displays random pics from the net regardless of users taste.

Genuinely surprised at this.

i was looking for the same solution that’s what brought me here. If Apple is gonna make the widget looks more fun and interesting, they should select from our favorite album instead of some random bread or some screenshot.

I suggest we all write in the feedback of wanting to be able to edit or add on about feature photo.

I was frustrated with this as well until I accidentally stumbled on the ANSWER:

from the Featured folder outside where you can scroll through the pictures, Haptic Touch on the photo you want to remove and the options will show up for that photo to be removed from featured.

screenshot attached.

I added the pics as a widget to my first page, but want to be able to select the pic that will show.

Yesterday, the widget was showing my tomato plant.

Today, a bowl of soup.

I’d like to be able to edit the Features photos, otherwise why make pics available as widgets? I’m thinking the author has the same intention. I, however, don’t think this is a “bug” but rather a suggestion & will be submitting feedback. :)

I deleted all my featured photos too. They are now completely gone and my widget is just black. I’ve restarted my phone several times, the featured folder has not returned. Why would I want a computer selecting my photos and they don’t even choose from my favorites? Can someone help me get these back?

Thanks Avantyoong, but a few posts in this thread that talk about removing/editing:

”When you delete the featured photos, they will be deleted from your Photos Library and not just removed from the Featured album. Do that only, if you do not like the photo and want to delete it everywhere. Use the Remove command and not the Delete command.”

“I added the pics as a widget to my first page, but want to be able to select the pic that will show.

Yesterday, the widget was showing my tomato plant.

Today, a bowl of soup.

I’d like to be able to edit the Features photos, otherwise why make pics available as widgets? I’m thinking the author has the same intention. I, however, don’t think this is a “bug” but rather a suggestion & will be submitting feedback. :)”

When I woke up this morning I noticed something different from the Photos widget. So I’ve been having the same problems as all of you, but the widget had a new larger category of photos specifically for pictures of animal I had on my phone. I’m more impressed that apple was able to pick out animals from cats rabbits to a lemur.

I don’t have a photo of it on the widget but this is the auto photo category that was displayed on the widget. It’s now back to some 3 random photos from tho now.

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Do you mean favourites photo album? If so, simply click on the heart that you see when viewing a photo in regular view.

I figured it out! If you go into the Widgetsmith app and edit the widget you can pick what album you want it to rotate through

I’m also dealing with that... I managed to choose the picture I wanted to see on my Photos Widget by removing all the featured photos except the one I wanted, but this morning my iPhone changed all my featured photos again and now I’m having a bad picture on my widget... I reported it as a suggestion because I don’t think it’s hard to add an option to choose just one picture to see 🤔