iOS 18 Disable Video Looping in Photos App?

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.

The situation is even worse! My iPhone 15PRO was stolen: I bought a 16PRO and downloaded the content from iCloud. This looping problem is happening with my previous videos too… I feel like Apple has improperly altered my work!

Shut it off!

This is so typical of Apple. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to move from a PC laptop to a Mac, but can't do it because of how little control Apple gives me. I'm just asking that they don't start screwing up things that weren't screwed up to begin with, like this issue. It's pretty clear i'll never be a Mac user on a regular basis (photo, and video editing only), I just don't want to have the same fate with the iPad.

Yes, please make auto-looping an optional thing. Right now my band has a song we play that uses an iphone video of a movie sample and it's suddenly throwing us all off having to keep remembering that it's going to keep auto-replaying if I don't remember and mute it back right away

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~

Apple, PLEASE let me disable video looping … I’m reviewing hundreds of videos to see which can be deleted or cropped and the looping is making the job not just tiresome, but stressful. 🤯😖🤬😭

I’m astonished this is even a thing — under what circumstances would it be useful?

I hate the looping (not dislike, truly hate), why in the world would you put this into an update without a way to turn it off? It is annoying to the extreme. I signed up for this forum just to leave a comment!

THE ANSWER was posted by Bernard Brown1 on November 22:

Settings>Apps>Photos, scroll down and turn off Loop Videos

Unfortunately, that’s a vision of the future, but most likely near future.

Showing that Apple responds to feedback.

100% It is November 26th 2024 - looping video has been driving me NUTS ever since it started.. it makes it impossible to PROPERLY EDIT the end of a video because you cant just llisten to the end of the video and hear the final split second before it loops around again,

I have just updated to IOS 18.1.1 and the problem is still there.

How is that such a very frustrating and workflow disturbing defect can be left uncorrected for months by Apple?

generally iPadOS 18.1.1 is acceptable but iPhoto is just annoying and a significant step down from earlier versions. The most obvious "feature" that should be removed (or make it selectable) is the auto looping that seems to be baked into the app.

in general, some apps appear to be very sensitive in that they seem to zoom almost randomly as soon as you touch them.

the mail app now loses attachments when to email is moved to a mail folder (for a gmail account).

Totally agree - Photos especially too sensitive and useless features which show too easily all kinds of new options which you are triggered when you are just looking through photos trying to view them.

The instant 'framing' of photos with options is much more complicated now...

A huge step down from the simplicity of previous functionality - more scrolling and touching and business

musicspirit wrote:

How is that such a very frustrating and workflow disturbing defect can be left uncorrected for months by Apple

Because any change that Apple makes to iOS affects hundreds of millions of users, so they won’t release it until it has been thoroughly tested. And I wouldn’t refer to 2 months as “months”, which implies much more than a couple.