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.

I understand now, sorry.

Those photos are chosen by the system, you can't add to them.

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 should appear again automatically after a few days. Keep photos running in the background, so it has time to find something interesting for the featured photos.

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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Hi, I know this is so late to the chat but I was trying to work this out as well. I managed to work how to do it. Not through Apple but through a specific app. If you go onto photo stream and create a new album of all the photos you would like to be included in the widget. Then, download an app called “Widgetsmith”. Once downloaded, you can create a widget of either a small, medium or large size. When doing this, click on ‘default widget’, scroll down to the “custom” section and select “photos in album”. Then select the album you have just created in your photo stream. Click save once that is done and come out of that app. To add the widget to the Home Screen, press the plus arrow at the top of the screen when you are editing your page, search for widgetsmith, select it and then click on the size widget you chose. It should appear. I hope this helps !! X

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.

Yeah, everyone is able to remove it from feature photo, but no way to add it, that’s the whole point of this post. Not about removing but adding it

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.

“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.” Very true, and since these are our phones and photos it would make sense to allow us to choose the photos to be featured, as of now it makes the photo widget pretty much useless. I’m sure some of the 3rd party photo frame apps will add widget support, you can add them to the today view screen already. As of now these are very watered down versions of android widgets and kind of useless.

Download the app “Photo Widget” from the App Store. Another nice one is “Color widget”. That should get the job done.

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?