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

This problem is more of Apple forcing their music products. I do not want your music selections or access to them. Please stop trying to circumvent my preferences and content restrictions by providing access that cannot be denied to albums I have not approved. This is supposed to be an “i” phone- I should be the one to choose.

Exactly, I was shocked when I found out they removed this option. Very very disappointing Apple. I cannot use this app anymore, I want to hear my own recordings not some background music! It was for me a perfect app, fast, precise en effortless. Now it is useless for me. Please correct this failure with the next update.

So the apparent answer is to disable this functionality. Why on earth would I want music on top of a 10 sec clip of an incredible jam at a concert I was at ? If I want to create a photo stream with music that’s easy to do. I don’t get the need for Apple to shove that down our throats without a way to turn it off.

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.

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.

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.

Well all the comments on this thread are negative and they’re all still here….hmmmm….

People who have comments removed get an email telling them why.

The best answer to this issue is the very first one given. You need to use the Product Feedback link to tell Apple that you’re not happy. There’s no-one from Apple on this forum to read these comments.

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!