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

It’s yet another example of Apple deciding for users rather than allowing them to decide for themselves.

it’s also a further indication of a general dumbing-down by Apple, most noticeable recently in the removal of so much that iTunes provided before it morphed into the truly dreadful Music app.

How are the mighty fallen!

Apple is a disaster. I used to use my own music - music from CDs in my itubes, old school, converted to MP3’s. Let’s just face it, we can complain as much as possible, but its a money making machine looking for revenue streams. It was a pretty disgraceful change.

I havent tried downloading the video and using other editing software but who wants to do that. It took 10 seconds before, was fun. Terrible decision.

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.

Agreed. the worst. and if it is no longer an option someone at apple should change all the instructions present on the internet now that imply it is possible. Too many unproductive changes with apples stuff. Waste of time trying to figure out if it's an error, if it's true, if it's a setting not showing up. Steve Jobs is looking down in dismay what has become of some things apple.

well I posted similar thoughts and related it to a similar event, and instead of receiving a hopeful comment from Apple, this is the new world order:

"We removed your post How do I turn off the music in Photos memories? iOS 15 because it contained rants or complaints that weren’t constructive. We understand wanting to share experiences, but these forums are meant for technical questions that can be answered by the community. "

In my experience it's very helpful to hear that others have a similar problem, and it's not related to your lack of expertise. Removing the post is hardly constructive.

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.

Please please will someone answer this with a constructive reply.

APPLE, please. let us turn off Memories and the silly music, which is so intrusive. I would love to compose my own music for my Memories.

the constructive reply is I'm glad you posted this. Lots of us have asked the same thing, and commented appropriately, and sign of the times, we were all told our posts were deleted/ violated community standards... Good Luck!

I hope Apple listen to this. I will say once again that I have Borderline Personality Disorder, (and 4 additional disorders), and photography is very important to me. I am unable to work, so my hobbies are my life, when I feel well enough to take part in them. 'Photos' in Mac OS and iOS is integral and very important, as its where I store all my photographs. I have 28,000 photos and countless videos too.

I have invested heavily in Apple products, because of reliability and excellent customer service since 2005.

However, this particular point, where I regularly receive 'Memories' with the strangest music playing along is disturbing to me an even offensive in some cases.

I understand it's just an algorithm which make it happen, but there should be a way to turn off the music and change the preferences so 'Memories' don't occur. I have people's names with a selection of photos and music, places with the same, weather, and so on, every day. So if I ever watch the Memory selection, I always turn the music off, as it makes me very anxious.

So please, Apple, do the right thing, and add more preferences so we have more control over our own Photo libraries. The thought of taking 28, 000 photos from Apple's servers and putting them somewhere else would be a complete nightmare. I already pay monthly for additional storage. Just give the people what they want. Thanks.

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.

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”.

I just spend a good 2 hours trying to figure out how to turn off the music in Memories slideshow on both ipad and iphone, only to find out that you cannot..that I am stuck with it. It should be an option, what makes Apple think we want to hear music, whether we want it or not?

What I have loved about Apple and the iPhone is being able to have it function as I choose. They seem to be getting away from that and controlling how it operates. I think that’s a bad direction to go and they will lose people. That said, my husband figured out how to turn off the music that Apple chose for my photos and which I hated. I want NO music. Period. I can’t tell you how he did it because it’s beyond my technical ability and he can’t explain it to me. BUT, take heart, it can be done. Apple is shooting itself in the foot.

I came here looking for help to stop this memories with music (what a load of trash) in my photos. I just bought a new iPhone 13 mini today I might have to return it and get a refund if I can’t clear this ridiculous feature,whoever thought this up needs to be got rid of as its not a nice option especially if it cant be closed down 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

I wish Apple were listening to this.

We, the customers, are responsible for the massive growth of the company. Yes, the management has done well, but without us, there would be no Apple.

So please, just allow us to turn off this ridiculous feature, if we want to. It would so easy to add a switch in Preferences, to stop this altogether. I doubt whether making people listen to random music, actually encourages them to buy, or listen to the particular track. I suppose it might. I would gladly pay 50p, or 50c a month to turn it off and have the ability to compose something myself, or add something from one of my playlists.

Come on Apple, do the right thing!