How do I turn off the swipeable stack of photos in messages ? It is REALLY annoying - when looking for something I have to keep swiping. Can’t find a way to turn off this completely stupid “upgrade”!

I just got the iPhone 13 with iSO 15 and I hate this new messages feature. When you send several pictures all at once the pictures that get sent in the same message get stacked together or clustered and you can’t see them all at once but you can see how many pictures are in the cluster. If you send just a few they get staggered but at least you can see them all. You also can’t scroll from one grouped set to the next. In the pictures I sent one grouped set that is 11 pictures that got bundled together and one message with just two pictures that got staggered. You can’t easily find the pictures you want from a grouped ones and you can’t quickly see which ones get reactions. You also can’t forward a selection of pictures from the group. I frequently used send my husband all the pictures I took and then forwarded his favorites to his family group chat but I can’t do that within messages anymore if I send more than two or three at a time. This is so frustrating and I’d love to be able to turn this feature off

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I would love to learn how I can deactivate swipeable stack for the photos on our texts because I do not want them grouped together and prefer the normal version where you don’t have to hold on to show the picture you want. Obviously whoever is next to you will see all those picture vs the old version where you would quickly swipe up or down to the point you know you wanted to show. I have the feelings that these upgrades are being made by teenagers or kid fresh out of college without considering the cons of the choices which is a completely disappointment.

I would also like the ability to turn off photo stacks. Most annoying forced design change in a while. I prefer to be able to see all the images in full when scrolling. Did they not give us a way to turn this off? Whoever approved this is stupid.

Mimisipad wrote:

How can I turn off swipeable stack in the photos of messages in iOS 15?

I can't visualize this on my iPhone 12 pro iOS 15.