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How to change Memories in the iPhone Photos app

By Sandy Writtenhouse 1 comment Last updated February 24, 2020

Introduced with iOS 10, the Photos app automatically assembles your pictures to create Memories. Memories are short movies that contain a collection of your photos or videos related to significant people, places, or events.

This handy feature in the Photos app can be a great way to relive memorable times. And while the app does a good job of gathering the photos and videos, there may be others that you want to include. Along with adding more photos to your Memories, you can change the music and the duration.

So that you can make those most of Memories in Photos on your iPhone, we’ll show you how to customize them.

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Contents

  • View your Memories
    • Review the photos
    • Remove photos
  • Edit your Memories
    • Set the mood
    • Change the duration
  • Customize your Memories
    • Add more photos
    • Change the music
    • Customize the duration
    • Change the title and title image
  • Making Memories that last

View your Memories

Head to the For You tab in the Photos app and you’ll see your Memories right at the top. Select the one you want to edit.

Review the photos

You’ll see a summary of the photos and videos included and can tap Show More to view them all.

Remove photos

Tap Select if you’d like to remove photos. Then choose each one and tap Delete (trash icon).

Change iPhone Memories - Remove Photos
Remove photos from iPhone Memories

Edit your Memories

You have a couple layers you can proceed to for making changes to your Memories. To get started, play the Memory and then pause it. You’ll notice a few settings here for mood and duration.

Set the mood

On the bottom, the top row lets you pick a mood. This mood, with options like dreamy, chill, or uplifting, corresponds to the music that will play. So if you don’t want to choose your own music, you can pick a mood.

Change iPhone Memories - Mood
Set the mood for Memories

Change the duration

For a fast change to the duration of your Memory, you can pick from short, medium, or long. Note that not all three options may appear. If you only have a few photos, for instance, you won’t see a “long” duration choice.

Change iPhone Memories - Quick Duration
Set the duration for Memories

Along with the changing the duration in this spot, you can customize it more precisely and we’ll show you how further along in the tutorial.

Customize your Memories

To add more photos or videos, change the music, and more, tap Edit at the top.

Add more photos

Keep in mind that you cannot select from your entire photo library; only related photos and videos will be available for you to add.

  1. At the bottom, tap Photos & Videos.
  2. Tap the plus sign on the bottom corner.
  3. Select the photos or videos you want, and tap Done when you finish.
  4. Tap Done once more and you’ll be back on the Edit screen.
Change iPhone Memories - Add Photos
Add photos to Memories

Notice that you can also remove photos and videos in this section. Swipe to the one you want to remove and tap Delete.

From here, you can tap Done one more time if you’re finished or continue with the steps below to make additional changes.

Change the music

Your Memories have music added to them automatically, but you can change it easily. If you would prefer something specific rather than setting a mood as described earlier, follow these steps.

  1. On Edit screen for the Memory, tap Music.
  2. You can disable the music by turning off the toggle at the top.
  3. To add different music, tap Edit Music.
  4. Select from Soundtracks, which are built-in collections listed by genre, or My Music, which lets you choose from your music library.
  5. Once you pick your music, tap the arrow on the top left to go back to the Edit screen.
Change iPhone Memories - Edit Music
Edit music in Memories

Customize the duration

As we mentioned earlier, you can customize the duration rather than picking short, medium, or long.

  1. Back on Edit screen for the Memory, tap Duration.
  2. Select the amount of time you’d like for the Memory duration.
  3. Tap the arrow at the top to go back to the Edit screen.
Change iPhone Memories - Custom Duration
Set a custom duration in Memories

Change the title and title image

While on the Edit screen, you’ll see that you can choose a new Title and Title Image for the memory. Just tap to adjust these items and keep in mind that the Title Image must be an image related to the Memory’s photos.

Change iPhone Memories - Title and Image
Change the Title or Title Image in Memories

Making Memories that last

With some small changes to the Memories created for you in the Photos app, you can make them even more unforgettable.

Are you going to take a little time to customize some of your Memories? If so, let us know!

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Sandy Writtenhouse

Sandy worked for many years in the IT industry as a project manager, department manager, and PMO Lead. She then decided to follow her dream and now writes about technology full-time. Sandy holds a Bachelors of Science in Information Technology.

She loves technology– specifically – terrific games and apps for iOS, software that makes your life easier, and productivity tools that you can use every day, in both work and home environments.

Her articles have regularly been featured at MakeUseOf, iDownloadBlog and many other leading tech publications.

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    December 8, 2020 at 2:10 PM

    How to change the order in which the images appear?

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