Disabling "Memories" in Photos

I did not want to criticise your question - sorry, if you misunderstood my comment.

Your example about presenting an "Easter" memory to you is a very good example to justify a request for a removal. But "offensive", "intrusive", "ugly" could profit from more detailed examples as well, as Apple is currently giving the memories so much priority and will need convincing.

I already sent feedback to Apple using the feedback Assistent. My problem with some of the automatically created memories is, that they can be very hurtful - memories are meant to surprise us with long forgotten photos and to bring back fond memories of old times. But sometimes Photos will pick photos, we cannot stand to watch at the time they are presented out of the blue, for example, when we are in mourning.

And I find it disrespectful, that Photos is cropping our Photos and tiling them. I am spending hours composing the perfect leading lines into a photo, placing the horizon and points of interest, taking care, not to cut off the hands and feet of people in the photos, or the tops pf towers, balancing the light and color. And Photos is spoiling all my artistic work by cropping the photo, so some stranger in the background will be placed at the point of interest, cutting away the tops of church towers or the feet of a person. I hate to see my photos tiled and crippled in the Memories or Days. Sometimes I cannot even recognise a photo I have been looking for.

I just think, giving details of what we find offensive, painful, ugly would help to make the Apple Developer team understand the problems.

BethesdaJack wrote:

Apologies for not being constructive.

What's also important to note is that you're trying to give Apple feedback in a place Apple doesn't read for feedback. Use the link from the first response.

Also, you can delete memories you don't want.

Personalize your memories in Photos on Mac - Apple Support (NG)

Also, there are some people who like them:

Memories not being created automatically … - Apple Community

If you look at the recent changes in Photos you will see, that Apple is giving the Memories a very high priority. So I am sceptical, that something will change, unless more users are sending feedback. The last years brought many more new templates for memories and even the ability to use Apple Music as a soundtrack, and new interactive controls, when the Memories are playing, while slideshows have been neglected. Memory movies are now far better than slideshows have ever been in Photos. They seem to be replacing the slideshows, see: macOS Monterey - New Features - Apple

If you want Apple to understand why not all users want or need this feature, you may want to write constructive feedback and explain why you want to be able to disable the automatic creation of Memories.

I am using the memories now instead of the slideshows to view my albums. Playing an album as a Memory is currently the only way to have a slideshow, where we can see the Live Photos animated and have automatically the date and location displayed with the photos.

We can't help much. You need to send feedback:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Remember using Photos is not compulsory in any way. You can just ignore it and use one of the many third party alternatives, most of which are far more powerful.

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