How do I turn off the music in Photos memories? iOS 15

Please let us turn off the noise! The memories were a nice feature, but now I must not use them because my phone starts making unwanted noise!!!!!!!! The arrogance of the non-answers in this thread is unconscionable. Please restore “none” or “silence” as an option. It is my phone, not yours!

I hate the idea of not be able to turn off the music in memories. I have my own recorded music with my photos and would love to hear it, not some music over the top!

Please get the non music choice back asap!

I had the same question, very frustrating, I have no desire to use the photo memories app now that I have to listen to music while I look at my memories. Apple obviously doesn’t appreciate the beauty of silence. Oh yah, silence is free…

This cannot be an option Apple, sorry! The photos app offers memories of some videos, for example, a rock concert I went mixed with some photos and the only options are boring musics. You must have an option to disable your defaulted musics so we can listen to our original videos’ audios. PLEASE LISTEN AND REVERT IT BACK! You sincerely ruined the memories part of iOS photos

Apparently, you aren’t allowed to be annoyed by this change in function and the the thought police delete any negative comments. I’m sorry I offended the Apple overlords.

Perhaps rather than edit negative feedback out of the loop, you can listen to the feedback and restore the “none” function on the music in the Photo Memories.

Thank you Big Brother

I hate memories now, since I cannot determine what music I wish to put on. Why does Apple not do anything to go back to the old system. It is terrible. All Memory users absolute don't understand the stubbornness of Apple

It is unbelievable that we can't turn off the pathetic music on photo memories! Are you kidding?? For the amount of money we've all spent on your products, we should not be forced to listen to music we don't want so you can get a penny every time it plays. Wake up and stop pushing OS updates with changes that no one wants.

I hate the new behavior. The great thing about the Memories feature was that it helped discover old photos and awaken memories. The mandatory addition of music is cloying and obnoxious. It tries to force a mood, rather than letting a mood emerge. This is particularly true when the photos are of dead people and pets. The times depicted may have been good, and revisiting them is welcome, but they are also, often, bittersweet. I want to feel MY feelings, rather than having some AI chosen music trying to drag me in a different direction.

I imagine some people like it. I might even choose to try out Apple's musical selections, but I don't want it forced on me. Right now I still have the memories widget on my home screen. I still appreciate seeing photos, but I'm also frustrated and traumatized because I know that if I heed my desire to click through I'll be irritated by the unwelcome music.

I've submitted feedback about this on Apple's site. I hope others do the same, since the people who made product decisions don't routinely read things here.

That’s not fair. I find the music in Memories very intrusive. I have severe psychological issues, which life has chosen to leave me with, and it makes me very anxious when I see a selection of my favourite photos with a soundtrack of music I have no control over choosing. Please, please make it stop.

Apple is not listening.

How many more people are irritated and feeling intimidated (for obvious psychological reasons. A certain percentage of people who are Apple customers will, just in statistical terms, have been experienced traumatic experiences in their lives, and this 'feature' will be triggering for them, causing distress and anxiety)?

It's distressing for me personally, and I wish Apple would just listen.

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities Superchango1270,

Thank you for contacting us. You have come to the right place and we are happy to assist you. We understand you would like to remove music from a memory.  We can understand why you’d reach out for a solution. We’d love to assist with this and the best way to do this is to leave feedback to Apple or use nature sounds or the similar. At the present time removing the music entirely is not an option that Apple offers.

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Thank you for contacting Apple Support Communities.

Best regards.

Where is the answer?

I'm so disappointed with the iOS 15 changes to the Memories feature. Before this release, I've been using it daily. Now I'm forced to listen to the music and the photos are moving. I cannot simply see them one by one in my own pace without distractions, noise and animations. Really disappointed

It’s unbelievably arrogant of Apple to impose their limited choice of music. Silence is what I want when viewing a photo as a source for my watercolour paintings. The unwanted music Is annoying, and embarrassing in an art group as I scrabble for the volume button. PLEASE adjust the menu selection. to include “None”.

Sure, then you also have to remember to turn it back on if you want to use your phone as an alarm, it will be silent when the alarm goes off, it won’t be an alarm after all, that is why Apple needs to come up with a no music option, period, give freedom back to the user!