iOS 18 Disable Video Looping in Photos App?

I have been looking everywhere with no luck but thought I would ask here. Is there any way to disable the auto-looping of videos in the Photos app in iOS18? After upgrading now if I play a video to auto-repeats in an endless loop until you stop it where in the past it would stop at the end of the video.


I dislike this feature since I often show others videos on my phone and find it very annoying that the video instantaneously loops back to the beginning when it finishes playing. Sometimes this makes it hard to tell for sure if the video has finished or looped and it's always a nuisance if I need to talk to the person about the video once it finishes playing, especially if it happens to be a video that's quiet for a few seconds at the end and I've forgotten to close the Photos app.



Posted on Sep 18, 2024 7:33 AM

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Posted on Sep 22, 2024 10:37 PM

Just talked to apple support and currently in 18 you can't disable it, but he suggested I leave a comment here to have them change it back in future versions.


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Maybe if we all do that, something might get done in the next version.

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Jan 11, 2025 11:25 AM in response to Anon1-2-3

Anon1-2-3 wrote:

Please suppress automatic looping of videos during playback. Perhaps provide OPTION to select auto-loop videos instead.

It won’t be on your laptop, but if your iPhone has iOS 18.2 or later, here is a post from almost a month ago in this thread that you must have missed when you read the thread before posting→iOS 18 Disable Video Looping in Photos Ap… - Apple Community



Jan 12, 2025 9:28 AM in response to Legends20036

Apple, a video created natively on the iPhone does not loop, so why would you have its playback be presented that way? Please disable video looping or configure the option to toggle on/off.


If you're struggling to inject/develop useful features into Photos, how about the ability to reduce a video down 75%, 50%, 25% or 10% so one can effectively share it?


Thank you~

Jan 12, 2025 10:38 AM in response to Matti Haveri

Matti Haveri wrote:


angry11ama wrote:

Please disable video looping or configure the option to toggle on/off.
Please disable this thread looping. The fix and the answer has been given several times already :-/

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Jan 13, 2025 6:18 AM in response to angry11ama

angry11ama wrote:

Apple, a video created natively on the iPhone does not loop, so why would you have its playback be presented that way? Please disable video looping or configure the option to toggle on/off.

Seriously?


  1. Go to the top of the page just under the lower left of the original post. Look for "Sort by" and change it to "Oldest."
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