Legends20036 Author

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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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Judd3180

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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.

Feedback - Photos - Apple

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

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4knfast

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Nov 1, 2024 3:49 PM in response to Legends20036

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.

Nov 3, 2024 7:37 AM in response to -- Gerd --

-- Gerd -- wrote:

I would suggest giving the user the option to enable or disable looping of videos.

Then suggest it where it counts:https://apple.com/feedback. Suggesting anything here, where Apple won’t see it, is a waste of time.

Nov 3, 2024 8:40 AM in response to Bernard Brown1

Bernard Brown1 wrote:

Same here it is VERY annoying...

(also would like to make it so the audio in NOT muted when playing a video)

Have you told Apple? https://apple.com/feedback

Posting in this user-to-user forum will not bring your request to Apple’s attention.

Nov 3, 2024 2:26 PM in response to Legends20036

I used your link to report this problem (I took a great deal of time to describe it in detail, following all directions), and when I tried to submit it, all the items I filled in were deleted! I suppose Apple is not really interested in feedback, even though I am a registered paying developer.

Legends20036 Author

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Nov 5, 2024 2:22 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

Sometimes things look like unannounced features and are really bugs. We don’t know they didn’t mean to have no setting option around this and we don’t know how many people have submitted feedback around it. So certainly reasonable for people to have hoped there would be a change.

There are other bugs in the photos app they haven’t fixed so it’s not like it’s perfect right now and exactly the way they intended it.

Nov 13, 2024 7:15 AM in response to Lesrmedals

Lesrmedals wrote:

STOP VIDEO LOOPING NOW apple !

Please stop yelling at us, your fellow users. It's rude. No one reading or participating in this forum can do what you want. Tell Apple. The feedback link has been provided repeatedly.

Nov 13, 2024 7:17 AM in response to Lesrmedals

Lesrmedals wrote:

STOP VIDEO LOOPING NOW apple !

STOP WASTING YOUR TIME AND THE TIME OF OTHER USERS IN THIS USER TO USER FORUM WHERE APPLE DOES NOT PARTICIPATE.

TELL APPLE, RATHER THAN ANNOYING OTHER USERS→Product Feedback - Apple

Nov 15, 2024 2:16 PM in response to Legends20036

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

Nov 18, 2024 8:13 AM in response to Legends20036

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?

Nov 18, 2024 8:19 AM in response to Ginger_Drink

Ginger_Drink wrote:

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?

::SIGH:: Someone else who didn’t bother to read the 11 pages of posts about this subject before adding yet another one.

Legends20036 Author

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Nov 19, 2024 7:52 PM in response to Legends20036

If helpful to anyone, here is a link to the Community Guidelines. Seems to be some confusion as to what should and should not be posted.

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Nov 21, 2024 10:35 AM in response to Legends20036

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!

Nov 22, 2024 12:22 PM in response to Katana-San

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.

Numb_ers

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8 points

Nov 25, 2024 5:49 PM in response to Judd3180

I ran across the auto looping and turned it off

and surprise with the latest upgrade 18.1.1

it’s back. Why change back what I changed?

I don’t recall how I changed it before. I turned

it off in the Accessibility setting but that did

nothing.

Why auto loop anyway?

Nov 26, 2024 2:33 PM in response to Legends20036

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?

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