Can’t change the playback speed or display pictures from Photo app post update

I have the same problem and am furious!!!!! If you find a solution let me know!!!!

Apple Tech is aware of it now. I have reported it directly to them, next release they should fix it back. I like to choose my own speed and my own music. You could mirror image in the meantime p.

That is exactly the issue I’m having. I did a wonderful slideshow presentation of my grandson and future bride to play at the rehearsal dinner. I had the slides perfectly in order. I had some depicting Bible verses. And I had the music perfectly selected for the slideshow. When I went to play it, it cropped whatever ones it wanted to crop it stacked whatever ones that wanted to stack and my music was no longer even accessible. Whoever designed this had a serious deficit and understanding the needs of the consumer. If they are relying on AI to decide what I want to show and when and how I am more than willing to opt out.

I have the same issue slide ever since I upgraded to iOS 18 I have been having the same issue watching a slideshow where you can control the speed on your TV is not possible. The image will be displayed on the TV but no slideshow. The slideshow is going through either my iPad or my iPhone. I have been on the phone with Apple Tech this morning. Spent half an hour with one and another 40 minutes with another one and they couldn’t figure out so it must be a bug hopefully the next update they will fix it most likely they won’t tell us what they fixed. I think somebody missed that point. My workaround hand it up, loading the images on a computer, and then I mirrored the screen to the TV with the code that they gave me from my TV screen.

I got same problem on both iPad iOS 18 and iPhone iOS 18, when select pictures and video to play as slide show the features to adjust times speed and theme are gone, can’t adjust anything and its play all selected pictures and video too fast.

would you please help to return the old feature back?

Same here - I have upgraded to iPadOS 18.1 and all the setting options are gone:

• I can't adjust the speed of the slideshow anymore
• I can't play one full photo at a time - the pictures are being cropped and weirdly arranged
• I can't adjust the transition style
• I have included short videos that are now not playing in full length anymore, but are cut off after a few seconds

Typical case of not thoroughly tested software update, or trying to make things fancy without understanding typical use cases first, I assume.

OK, so can you tell me which OS you are using? You say you're using an iPad, but you said that you're using iOS18, which is an iPhone OS. You also say that you're using iPadOS15. Which is it?

When I said "clarify… exactly what you are doing," I meant what steps do you go through and what happens. You can use the links I sent to help specify the steps. How is what you get different than what you did before?

Have you put the pictures you chose for your slideshow in an album of their own?

I have the same problem. This is the answer from Apple Support. Link is in Spanish but you can change that. Personalizar los recuerdos en la app Fotos en el iPhone - Soporte técnico de Apple (ES)

Look through the following link you can consult these more detailed functions and how you can edit them.

Once the slide is created, it will be saved as a "memory".

And to change the duration of a memory depending on the number of photos in a memory, you can change the duration of a memory to short, medium, or long. The option you choose automatically adjusts the number of photos included.

1 Open the Photos app on your iPhone.

2 Scroll down to Memories, then tap a memory to play it.

3 Tap the screen, then tap .

4 Tap Short Duration, Medium Duration, or Long Duration.

If you have customised the length of the video by adding or removing photos yourself, the selected length is personalised.

In my case my number of photos is 43 photos and 6 videos. I only have the possibility to choose “short” or “medium”.

Regarding the issue “music” I have no solution as I didn’t ask for it but I am sure Apple Support will be able to help.

If you have the solution, please add it here.

Thank you and good luck!

I found a solution to this problem. I sold my iPad Pro 11 M2 on Ebay for $650. Then I purchased a Lenovo Duet 3 on sale direct from Lenovo for $180. The Duet 3 has a touchscreen, kickstand, full magnetic keyboard with trackpad, two USB-c ports, digital pen included, and 100GB of Google Drive included. Oh, and the Google Photos slideshow features actually works.

You say iOS 18, but you list an iPad Air 2 as your device. Are you talking about an iPhone or an iPad?

Slide shows are saved as Memories. Are you editing a Memory?

Perhaps you can look at this:

Make and play slideshows on iPhone - Apple Support

And at this:

Personalize your memories in Photos on iPhone - Apple Support

If you can clarify what device you're using and exactly what you are doing, we may be able to help further.

I think you'r right. Something similar has happened in the "Play Slideshow" routine on the Mac-- there's never been much versatility with it, but I liked using it to review my choices for favorites from a shoot. Now it occasionally does the grouping thing, and I hate it. But on the Mac, there is a second option to "Create a Slideshow," and that offers lots of adjustments. I think the only thing we can do about the new "Play Slideshow" routine is to let Apple know what we think:

Feedback - Photos - Apple

There are some slideshow apps in the App Store, and some (not many) are free. Another choice is Apple's very powerful Keynote, which I've used to give presentations to groups using my iPad connected to a projector.

I provided those iPhone links because you said that you were using iOS 18.

Mac_User007 wrote:

I can’t believe Apple tech support are suggesting this long workaround. I hope it’s a temporary solution until next fix. My workaround is use mirroring rather than Airplay.

It is not a work-around for the problem described here. The page in the user guide just describes what is currently possible on iOS 18. But it still offers no solution, if we want to adjust the tempo of the slideshow, and there is still no way to use our own music as a background track for the slideshow.

• This advice "Tap Short Duration, Medium Duration, or Long Duration" will just change the number of the items in the slideshow to make it longer or shorter, but not adjust the speed.
• As to the music, we still can only use the theme music or songs from Music, but none of the own songs we added to our Music Library. when I am picking any song I created myself with GarageBand or Logc, I'm getting an error message "This song cannot be used".

I can’t believe Apple tech support are suggesting this long workaround. I hope it’s a temporary solution until next fix. My workaround is use mirroring rather than Airplay.