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

When is this getting fixed? I put a slideshow together for a retirement party and the pace of the slides is enough to give the people there a stroke. Plus you can barely register a photo and enjoy the memory without it flying by. I can't believe this was logged as an issue in October and Apple hasn't resolved. The holidays are here, people want their photos as they want them.

I also have this issue- although slightly different. The issue seems to be Apple does offer a default value that can be tweaked or an adjustment for a on the fly slide show option -( select a bunch of photos and click slideshow), nor this issue. When you create a custom slideshow, you get this option for slide speed. So something is corrupted during the upgrade. Apple, every slideshow should have an adjustable slide speed 🤷‍♂️

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 completely agree! I didn’t even know this was an issue until tonight. I have my Christmas party with my family and I put together a slideshow of all of our old Christmas photos from when we were little and then how things have changed and how we’ve grown and I can’t do that now because Everything that everyone has said is happening and this is terrible!!!!!

I tried what you suggested however, on my version, it does not give a slideshow option. It just tells me I can save it to another album or shared album 😓 when I tried that it just gave me the same problem.

Here’s a link to let them know how we feel about what they did. And ask them to return the options.

Product Feedback - Apple

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.

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!

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".

WHY CAN’T I DESELECT THE “CUSTOM” OPTION? Oh, wait, YOU DON’T CARE!

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.

Hello Apple Tech..

please please please …. Recover the previous function of “slideshows” back (we need functionality before ios18.0 back)…

Don’t let us wait so long…please please.

So very disappointed with the photo app after my update. I used the slideshow presentation often for work events now it’s terrible. Too fast and difficult to customize.

I agree. Change it to give us the control back like it was before 18.0.