iOS 18 Disable Video Looping in Photos App?

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.

This video looping in the Photos app

Updating my software is supposed to make the phone better not worse. I spent a lot of time making a certain video to listen to when I go to sleep. Now it keeps playing on and on.

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iOS18 is creating videos out of all my photos or videos that I want to

play w/o them messing with them! e.g., I have saved videos of my grandson in a video folder. iOS won't let me play them without its making a video stream & adding music! I'd like to play video as is & hear his voice--not over-dubbed w/ their choice of music! Not appreciated! Make it stop! I want to play the original videos & photos without iOS18 adapting them into a musical video stream, thank you!

you used to be able to do it quickly from the swipe down screen. Now you have to click through to settings. The reason for turning off is simple - listening to the radio in the car and wanting to have my navigation on (if Bluetooth is on, you won’t hear your navigation)

I’ve been using Apple phones since the very beginning. This is the one feature that would make me trade it in for a Samsung. I’ve literally thrown my phone over this and I’ve never done that with any other device ever.

Couldn't agree more. I had a hard time finding my Favorites, had to search the community for how to do it. Then I had to figure out how to turn off "preview" in my photo library after I tried to show someone a photo and it had jumped to the next photo before she could see it.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of "Movie" view when I open a folder, as I accidentally clicked on "Movie" instead of "Photo" in a folder of my photo library, resulting in unwanted music playing in the middle of a meeting. Is there any way to hide that option?

iPhone 13. Video playback in iOS 18.1.1 is looped. In addition, the

video is saved in silent mode. Is the only option to wait for Apple to

respond? The situation is very frustrating. You can go crazy watching a

looping video. When Apple will be ready to do something to eliminate the

problems (looping and recording in silent mode). The video can be

listened to when I manually activate the crossed out speaker on the

screen, but I can't do anything about looping.

iPhone 13. Video playback in iOS 18.1.1 is looped. In addition, the

video is saved in silent mode. Is the only option to wait for Apple to

respond? The situation is very frustrating. You can go crazy watching a

looping video. When Apple will be ready to do something to eliminate the

problems (looping and recording in silent mode). The video can be

listened to when I manually activate the crossed out speaker on the

screen, but I can't do anything about looping.

What do you think about receiving silent videos and be able to turn on

the sound by activating the crossed-out speaker? Was it done by Apple

intentionally? I think it would be better and more natural to receive

recorded videos with sound and give the option to turn it off. 

Hey Apple, enough people (including me) are upset about videos auto-looping when viewed in photos app. Please get a new OS update ASAP that allows disabling of this unpopular feature. I wasted my time searching, adjusting my settings, rebooting only to read here it’s YOUR new update, not me.

***SOLUTION***

It would have been simple to have a button while playing the video, however the function still exists elsewhere.

Go to Settings - Apps - Photos

Scroll down until you see Loop Videos and disable it. Done !

* Yes please Apple add an option to stop auto-repeat of iPhone videos on your next iOS update. This is very annoying for many reasons. It also makes it difficult to accurately assess beginning/end of video for potential editing.

Agreed! Please either remove auto-looping replay on videos in the Photos app - or - add the ability to disable it. It is wholly annoying and useless. We use videos for audio during singing auditions and performances and to have to ask the moderator or audition manager to close out of the Photos app the second the song is over is ridiculous and not usually possible.

Why would Apple assume that would be the default action a majority of users would want to take? It doesn't even make sense. It's ******* me off every time I try to play one of my videos to figure out how I want to edit them. Or even just to view them. So annoying. They change things just to prove their jobs are needed.