How to edit Featured Photos on Iphone

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 🤔

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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.

“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.

I would like to be able to select what photos are on my widgets. I successfully removed featured photos but I can’t add any. I came to see if there is a way that I don’t know but clearly there is not. :/

Okay I figured it out! You have to download the app “Widgetsmith” then click on whatever widget size then click on the icon twice then you scroll to the bottom of the options and click photos allow it to connect to all photos the. You click the widget and choose select cover and there you can choose

That’s a nice app, I had it for my watch but I’m glad to know they have a widget one now. I’ve been using the app “Wdgts”, but it only has widgets for the today view currently. With Widgetsmith when you choose an image folder does it cycle the photos?

Allykimball wrote:

Okay I figured it out! You have to download the app “Widgetsmith” then click on whatever widget size then click on the icon twice then you scroll to the bottom of the options and click photos allow it to connect to all photos the. You click the widget and choose select cover and there you can choose

Widgetsmith seems to require in-app purchases. Did you need to purchase something to be able to do what you are describing?

if you want to choose which photos show on a widget you could get the app “widgetsmith” and when you choose which size widget you want you can scroll down and there’s an option that says “photo in album” and you can choose which album to show pictures from.

The photos widget makes no sense. I’d like to be able to choose the photo’s it displays. A few mins back I had to delete a lot of the photos because it started showing a pic of my totaled car... I’d really prefer the widget uses a folder of my choice or perhaps the favorite folder. Or else it makes no sense.

Yeah same problem for me! I really want to change the photo and my phone won’t let me. I tried everything I know and I even tried to find the answer on the internet. Seems like I ain’t going to be changing the photo anytime soon.

Except that up until recently, the featured photos didn’t really serve much of a purpose. Now they do, and it’s not in a way people want, so it makes more sense to change either how the photo widget functions or how featured photos function. Otherwise, this widget might as well be useless.

I agree. Completely useless not being able to control the photos. A lot of people are bringing up widget apps. That isn’t the answer, I I never thought about having photos on home page like that I just want the standard iPhone app to be functional, that means having some control. Hopefully apple are seeing this and a future update will correct something that is completely useless but a good idea of done properly.

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

Currently the best solution is to add the Pinterest widget instead. You can create a private board in Pinterest with your favourite photos and set the widget to draw from this. You can also choose between hourly and daily rotation

I had this problem too, and I was unable to find a solution after looking for literally hours, what I ended up doing is downloading Pinterest and creating a board with only the pictures that I’d like to appear in my Home Screen, I then replaced the gallery widget with a Pinterest shortcut widget and it displays all of my favorite photos