iOS 16 lets you turn off your iPhone’s Memories feature.
Hollis Johnson
You can turn off the Memories feature on your iPhone by going through the Photos menu in your Settings app.
If you don’t want to fully turn Memories off, you can also reset the feature so it stops recommending the same photos.
Like any modern smartphone, the iPhone uses AI to automate a lot of features. One of these features is Memories, a tool that looks back at photos you’ve taken while on vacation or during holidays, and makes slideshows out of the “best” ones.
But the Memories feature can be annoying — especially if it keeps recommending photos from a time of your life that you’d rather forget. That’s why iOS 16 now lets you turn off or reset the Memories feature.
How to turn off Memories on your iPhone
You can both completely turn the Memories feature off, or reset the algorithm so it stops recommending you the same photos.
To do either, remember that you need to update your iPhone to iOS 16 first.
1. Open your iPhone’s Settings app and scroll down to tap Photos.
2. Scroll down to the two sections near the bottom of the page labeled Memories and Memories & Featured Photos.
3. To fully turn Memories off, tap both the Show Holiday Events and the Show Featured Content switches so they flip to the left. This makes it so your iPhone won’t suggest Memories slideshows anywhere.
4. If you just want to erase the current photo-choosing algorithm, tap both Reset Suggested Memories and Reset People Suggestions.
You’ve got two ways to manage your Memories.
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You can also get rid of specific Memories that appear in the Photos app by tapping the three dots in the Memory’s top-right corner, and selecting Feature Less… or Delete Memory.
Selecting either option might affect what Memories your iPhone makes in the future, too.
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