How to Turn Off Photo Memories on Your iPhone
Memories is an iPhone feature enabled by default, so it will show up in your notifications from time to time. If you don’t want to receive notifications about old photos and videos you took years ago, you can disable this feature. It can be reenabled at any time as well, so you’re free to switch it off and on whenever you want.
What Are iPhone Photo Memories?
Memories is a feature that creates slideshows from photos and videos you previously saved to your camera roll. It uses machine learning to feature people, places, and events from your library, generate slideshows and set them to music. These memories are then presented in your notifications. In addition to the automatically-generated slideshows, you can create your own Memories photo slideshows to share with friends and family. If you prefer to curate your own slideshows, you may want to disable the feature and then make your own from time to time.
Can You Block Just One Person From Memories?
If your primary reason to turn off memories is that it keeps showing pictures or videos of someone you don’t want to see anymore, you can set the Photos app to avoid that person. This feature leverages Apple’s face recognition technology to feature a person less often in the Photos app and memory notifications. This is useful if you took a lot of pictures with an ex and don’t want to be reminded of your messy breakup year after year, or you’re still processing the loss of a loved one and aren’t ready to have their face pop up in your notifications. To block someone from Memories on an iPhone, you can tap Photos > Albums > People, and select the person. Then tap the ellipses for options. If you select feature this person less, you’ll see less of that person in Memories. If you select never feature this person, you’ll never see photos of that person, even in group photos. You can also avoid featuring a memory of a date or place by tapping Photos > For You. You can then tap the ellipses on the memory you want to block > Feature Less > Confirm.
