How do I to stop iOS Photo App automatically creating movies?

In Photos, while viewing an album, tap the button with the two arrows in the lower left corner and tap "Viweing Options" in the menu that will appear. At the Botton is an option to turn off the annoying video preview of the album.

Whoever the bored "ideas" person was who thought adding a movie track to pictures was a good idea should be put out to pasture... or worse. This is a prime example of what a recent Bill Maher programme called "Reverse Improvement":

vhabitz wrote: … Toggling off create memories and featured photos in settings is not working.

When I go to Settings>Apps>Photos>Show Featured Content and turn that OFF, then I no longer see the slideshows in albums. The Memories collection says "No Memories Available."

Are you seeing something different?

léonie wrote: In Photos, while viewing an album, tap the button with the two arrows in the lower left corner and tap "Viweing Options" in the menu that will appear. At the Botton is an option to turn off the annoying video preview of the album.

So that's where that is! I've been looking under (•••)! Thanks.

Baroque_Hillbilly wrote: Whoever the bored "ideas" person was who thought adding a movie track to pictures was a good idea should be put out to pasture... or worse. This is a prime example of what a recent Bill Maher programme called "Reverse Improvement":

They added something and gave us a way to turn it off. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. Maybe it's "bored" folks who call hard working people names for no reason who "should be put out to pasture..."

Well, YMMV, as they say :) Fair point, I suppose. But I'm a "optional opt-in" kinda guy, rather than "optional opt-out." It seems to me that many new features are more eye candy than practical improvements, and the above very definitely falls into that category for me, and apparently some others.

Steve Jobs' line that "People don't know what they want until you show it to them" may still have some merit, if what you're offering them really makes things easier/better and improves operational experience. But I'm "a bit older", having run Macs (and the odd Windaz machine) for... well... a long time, and anything I find distracting or annoying gets short shrift. But as long as we have the option of disabling it, I can cope.

The new Photos is a game of Hide and Seek 😊