iOS 18 Disable Video Looping in Photos App?

I hate the looping video. I hate the teeny tiny display that I cannot see. (What happened to Apple’s ADA compliance team?) I hate the duplicate notifications of “comments” on shared photos. What an annoying mess this is. Constantly drawing my attention to this program makes me hate Apple. And I have used it since the beginning. Please restore some semblance of simplicity.

Apparent inability to switch off iOS 18 Photos Auto Looping must be an introduced bug as it is hard to imagine why it would have been introduced intentionally.  The single most annoying aspect of the v18 upgrade.

Jentlricfbwkwk wrote:

These changes are entirely pointless, in some cases buggy, and do not benefit the end user! Fix the leaking roof of features that have needed fixing forever instead of moving the furniture around in the room and calling it a new house!

Why are you telling us? We can't do anything about it. Tell Apple using the Feedback link already provided.

Personally, I like the new version of Photos and find it much more user friendly. I'm not alone.

I hate the auto looping. I don’t want to keep watching the same video over and over.

Apple is getting too many mandatory settings and features. Just traded in my SE for the iPhone 16 but I guess I’m going to start shopping again.

I agree, this feature being forced on iPhone users without an options is not cool, especially, “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.”

There are thousands of features that are “forced on users”, starting with the very first iPhone, which had thousands of features never before seen on a cell phone. Virtually every function an iPhone has (or an Android phone, for that matter) was “forced on users”.

And the simple solution is to hit the pause button when it restarts.

JC3476 wrote:

iOS 18 — Disable auto video looping in Photo app!!! Add an option button to auto loop, but don’t make it the default. Plz.

You would be enlightened by reading the 6 pages of the thread you just added to.

LeinadB wrote:

Apple pls fix it asap.

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. However, you can use the feedback previously provided in this thread to let them know your thoughts.

This comment by JC3476 would fix the whole issue for me. Thanks. He said ..

"iOS 18 — Disable auto video looping in Photo app!!! Add an option button to auto loop, but don’t make it the default. Plz."

Legends20036 wrote:

Plenty of reasons. Often new connections don’t show unless you disable and then enable again. To disconnect multiple devices at one time. To stop a frozen connection easier than going into the individual connection with multiple extra touches.

Interesting that in 17 years of using iPhones, none of those issues has ever happened to me. I have never turned off Bluetooth for any reason, and all of my BT devices have always worked perfectly.

I agree, too!

I think the possible fix, however, is to no longer have this looping, as it has always been.

The looping feature could be introduced in a command in the settings, IF THE USER so desires.

Apple cannot determine that my videos are, on the iPhone, played in a loop.

Hello~ You are addressing your fellow forum members and not Apple. We can’t “turn off” anything. Would that we could. It’s been suggested over and over to log your feedback with Apple but I guess no one wants to actually read this thread…

~Katana-San~

Sliderule4 wrote:

Please disable the annoying video auto-repeat in iOS 18!

You can let Apple know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Mrs. Moore wrote:

STOP. VIDEO. LOOPING.

TELL. APPLE.NOT. OTHER. POOR. USERS. WHO. ARE. STUCK. READING. YOUR. RANTING.

https://apple.com/feedback