Create a Slideshow on iPhone and iPad with Apple Photos on iOS 17

Create a Slideshow on iPhone and iPad with Apple Photos
In this video, I’ll show you how you to take photos and videos that matter to you and turn them into slideshows and memories you can share with others, all with the Photos app that’s already on your iPhone or iPad.
#Photos #iPhone #iPad #Slideshows
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
00:40 - The Photos App
01:20 - Two Kinds of Video Presentations
01:43 - Library Slideshows
02:12 - Albums
02:46 - Slideshow Options
04:08 - Memory Videos For You
04:39 - Memory Videos in the Photo Library
04:54 - Memory Videos in Albums
05:03 - Memory Video Options
06:21 - Portrait or Landscape
06:45 - How to Share a Slideshow
07:03 - Customize Control Center
07:35 - Record the Slideshow
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[@HeyIvan]

If you want to know how to create slideshows using Photos for Mac, I've got you covered. Check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHLNXqmhZd2heNE

[@anthonypironello6437]

Thank You. Very helpful

[@tawnynguyen3258]

Thank You so much 👍

[@JamesBeck-kh7vq]

Great job…Thank you

[@ShirleyWalker-whatsheknowznow.]

Great Video… thanks, just I needed!

[@teedjr]

Nice video, thanks!

[@bgebbink]

This is great! It’s exactly what I was looking for.

[@goliath9081]

Thank you so much for the cheat code on sharing these cause I really like the memories and that sucks not being able to share them but now I can thanks to you

[@DdBibighaus]

Yes! This video was so helpful.Thank you!

[@HeyIvan]

You're so welcome!

[@nelliecastillo4526]

thank you very helpful but need to watch and follow again

[@HeyIvan]

Replays are free. And, you can click the gear at the bottom of the KZbin player to find an option that controls playback speed. You can slow me down, or just ask specific questions in the comments. Thanks for watching!

[@qnprogrammer]

Thank you so much for the video. The slideshow recording trick is awesome.

[@HeyIvan]

I like that workaround. :)

[@MrTrainGuy1972]

I appreciate the work arounds for different things that apple just decides we don’t need . Like using screen recording so I can make a slide show and share with friends .

[@atlantarealestatehub9305]

Ivan, this is fantastic... I was trying to make a picture and video collage for a friend's birthday and this helped... I even discovered how you change the song... You can even choose a song off of your iTunes downloads (How cool is that?) I can download Paul McCartneys Happy birthday song instead of the lame music choices.. If I were to upload on social media or youtube, would I get in trouble?

[@HeyIvan]

Yes, probably. On KZbin it might be a copyright claim or takedown. On somewhere like Facebook, the audio might become muted. I touch on this a bit in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHLNXqmhZd2heNE&si=K48ee-Law1xb3bcx

[@suemartin8613]

This is very helpful 😊 I have a question … is there a way to make a slide show from shared album in google photos ?

[@HeyIvan]

You know, now that I look I see that if you have an album with more than one photo, on either the Photos app on an iPhone or at photos.google.com in the web browser, there is an option for a slideshow, but it doesn't seem to support music or many other slideshow options. I'll keep digging into this. And I'll have to test with shared albums. Do you think it might be worthy of a video or two?

[@atlantarealestatehub9305]

The other thing that would be helpful is to teach us how to edit (Change the order of the pictures) It seems like it puts them in the order that you select them and if you decide later that you want one particular photo/video to be the first, you can't do it without deleting the whole memory and starting over

[@HeyIvan]

You can impose order after the fact, or if you make an Album in Photos, the order you specify there get's respected when you create the slideshow.

[@Vex_Plays420]

Hi. How long can the screen recording be so it can be shared? Does it cut off at a certain point? Thanks

[@HeyIvan]

I haven't run into a limit. I expect there isn't one, or that it might be limited by the available space you have on your iPhone or iPad. The slideshow playback should keep your iPhone or iPad from falling asleep. Please let me know if you discover it behaves differently for you.

[@beetetband]

How do you save the slide show though so that you can upload it to Instagram as a story?

[@HeyIvan]

In my experience, you have to use screen recording to save the video to your photo library. Then you can upload it to Instagram. I cover this as the last part in this video.

[@ekpriestley]

In an album I can change the order of the pictures and the pictures show in the changed order in the slide show. But when I save the album to a shared album, they revert to the order of the date they were shot. This screws up the slide show. How can I share a slide show with the pictures in the order I set up?

[@HeyIvan]

I understand what you mean. I recommend using screen recording to record the slideshow. Then, you can save that as a video into Photos and then add that video of the slideshow recording to the shared album. Essentially, you'd be sharing all the original pictures in the album, along with a video of your slideshow presentation. Here's the timestamp to that part of the video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ip20mo13nNVrgqMsi=Dbi3n4kZBLFCQOLX&t=455 Please let me know if that works for you.

[@davidyu1495]

Hi Ivan, can video be included as part of the slideshow in additional to photos or it is only just for photos? Thanks.

[@HeyIvan]

Yes you can! However, you'll need to change the theme to either Classic or Magazine. The others don't wait for the video to play all the way through.

[@BravingTheOutDoors]

once you've made a video slideshow how do you save it?

[@HeyIvan]

I talk about that later in the same video. Here's a timestamp to that part: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ip20mo13nNVrgqMsi=NYDwUxpKd7H-NY4q&t=405 In short, because there are no sharing options for Slideshows on the phone, you can sort of hack your way around this using screen recording, assuming the show isn't too long. I show this in my video.

[@user-xl9ms7eg4o]

how to shuffle the photo in slideshow? or any free apps?

[@HeyIvan]

Unfortunately, no way to shuffle the images. Each slideshow is a collection of images in the order you set. The only hint I see is about using the Mac's screensaver feature to generate a random order. I don't know of an app, but I'm looking into it.

[@jhonadrianl]

Is there an updated video for this? Screen recording is not the ideal method to use. I'm using iOS 17.3 and it lets you save the slideshow as a video file itself directly to the Photos app.

[@HeyIvan]

I recorded that on iOS 17, I believe. I’m on iOS 17.3.1 right now. The “slideshow” feature on the iPhone doesn’t let you share anywhere other than to Airplay. The “memory video” feature does. My video covers both. However the memory video option may not show up if you don’t have enough photos selected. The Mac offers some different options, although the slideshows you export from it come out in a lower quality than what the phone produces.

[@paulahensley3989]

I recorded a slideshow per this video. Worked great but when I show the video the words, “done,” “Slideshow” and the pause icon show all the way through the video. How do I record a slideshow without showing those words?

[@HeyIvan]

You can crop the screen recording. And one tap can toggle the display of the playback controls at the begging of video playback. Let me know if this is confusing.

[@paulahensley3989]

Thank you! Very helpful video and reply.

[@HeyIvan]

I’m glad it helped.

[@vlewin1844]

Thank you for the tips. I have a question: Is there a way to time the slideshow so that it ends when the background song ends? So far, I'm doing it by trial and error and that requires me to watch and listen to the slideshow over and over again to get it right. And it seems like I can't even just go to the very end of the slideshow. Each time, it starts from the beginning. I'm using an iPad. Thank you. P.S. I have a MacBook Pro which does have more editing features however the song I want to use is DRM-protected and my MacBook Pro doesn't allow me to use an MP3 file (which is how I have the song saved on my iPad).

[@HeyIvan]

On the iPad? Unfortunately, no, there isn't a way to time the slideshow to finish slideshow with the music. The closest thing you can do on the iPad is choose a different theme and then you can slide she turtle/rabbit slider to make the photos go by slower or faster. On the Mac, though, you've got a lot more options. Here's a video that shows how to create the slideshow in the Photos app: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHLNXqmhZd2heNE Here's how to purchase a DRM-free version of a song you'd like to use in the Slideshow on your Mac: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qITVXoBnZclgqLM And here's a video that shows you how to get rid of the DRP-protected copy so that you can download the DRM-free version of the song you purchased into a Slideshow on your Mac: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZuzoad-aq2hps0

[@vlewin1844]

@@HeyIvan OMG! Thank you!!!!! I was on the phone with Apple tech support twice, plus two different chats and none of them knew why I could not use a song I bought from Apple music. Bizarre! But you totally solved my issue. Except what I ended up doing as a work-around is a lot of trial and error to time the song to the slideshow. And then because I couldn't save it on the iPad, I had to do a screen recording. In the end, it was fine but your method would have saved me a LOT of time. Unbelievable Apple techs have no clue!

[@HeyIvan]

Awesome!!

[@HeyIvan]

You know, there are a LOT of weird corner cases when it comes to Apple. I describe their systems as "deceptively simple." For most things it's pretty straight-forward. However, for other things, it can get complicated .. fast. For example, Photos library sharing can now happen in 2 separate ways. One way is with a shared album. The other way allows you to share your whole library with a partner or someone else. It's not obvious how to do the second one, but if you aren't careful, you'll think the first might be what you want. I'm glad I was able to help. I only wish I could have responded faster so you could have benefitted from the time saving.

[@vlewin1844]

@@HeyIvan No worries and thank you!! I wish I could contact the tech support woman who did not help me! She gave me a reason I couldn't use the song I wanted to use. But she did not give me the solution as you did!

[@dianar.r.5988]

Is there an option to create a Title for slideshows created from Library or Photo Albums? Where are the slideshows that are created from the Library or Photo Albums (not Memory Videos) saved?

[@HeyIvan]

Two excellent questions! 1) Unfortunately, there isn't an option to create a title for a slideshow. Those assembled from a selection of several photos have no title. Those assembled from Albums inherit the name of the Album from which they were spawned. You can create and edit titles for Memory videos. 2) The slideshows aren't saved anywhere. They are created in real-time, whenever you choose to view them. You can save Memory videos, Or, you can use the steps I describe for saving the slideshow as its own video back into your Photos library. Here's. a link to that part of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ip20mo13nNVrgqMsi=5gDGVlqzSCJFE3It&t=405 Thanks for your questions!

[@dianar.r.5988]

Thx for your quick and clear response.

[@kestag2110]

I can’t get the memories bit to come up. Slideshow does but not memory 😔

[@HeyIvan]

For me, the memory didn't show on every collection of photos. I had to have more than 5 in my albums before the memory option came up. The For You section should show show you a few.

[@Chris_Julie_Dobinson]

My screen recording times out every time before my slideshow is finished?

[@HeyIvan]

I’ll check with Apple to see if there is a limit on screen recording time. This problem could be related to how much available storage you have on your iPhone. Go to settings, general, iPhone storage. This should show you how much free space you have on your iPhone. If the phone is almost full, that would explain why the screen recording stops. Let me know. And I’ll report back when I find out from Apple.

[@Chris_Julie_Dobinson]

Hi I’ve checked memory and there is plenty of memory. I tried doing the same screen recording on both on iPad and iPhone both screen recordings timeout. Funny thing is I can play the slideshow on my iPad and record the video via my camera on my iPhone and no issues with memory

[@HeyIvan]

@Julie_Dobinson Apple Support says there's not limit other than that of your storage. How long is your slideshow? Approximately how long does it run? If my iPhone were stopping on the screen recording feature, I would force quit all the apps and then do a force restart. That *usually* fixes up any oddball issues I might run into on iOS Force close: support.apple.com/en-us/109359 Force restart: support.apple.com/guide/iphone/force-restart-iphone-iph8903c3ee6/ios

[@trlyka]

After selecting the photos, selecting 'Slideshow' and then selecting 'Done'....where is the slideshow saved?

[@HeyIvan]

The slideshow doesn’t save anywhere. It’s more of an on-demand presentation. You can save Memory Videos. I have used screen recording to save my phone slideshows.

[@michele7509]

In your photos

[@HeyIvan]

The screen recordings save into your photos library. Memory videos live in the For You section.

[@morganaluthor]

it may be beneficial to some but to me it is pointless to use the slideshow function unless it could be saved like samsung

[@HeyIvan]

I know what you mean. And I respect that.

[@HeyIvan]

By the way, what do you recommend as a good way of making a slideshow on Android? I have a Pixel 7 and I'm thinking of diving in that direction for an upcoming video.

[@morganaluthor]

yea i had to download apps to create it on iphone meanwhile i have never felt the need to use another app on samsung as their build in photos app could do up a simple one.@@HeyIvan

[@boxedlife]

capcut is really popular n useful. i used it for many of my clips and it is free to use. i'm a mainly samsung user @@HeyIvan

[@peterrush17]

Why are you talking do fast? It’s impossible to follow you at this speed.

[@HeyIvan]

Thanks for the feedback. I’m thinking of remaking this video to make it more complete. When I do, I’ll slow down a bit.

[@Maximum1A]

Would have been a really good video EXCEPT you talked why too fast when giving “how to” instructions and the associated screen shoots scrolled way to fast which. I rated your video on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being the lowest) a 2!

[@HeyIvan]

Thank you for that feedback. KZbin has controls that allow you to adjust playback speed. You can slow them down or speed them up. You may wish to slow my video down and enable subtitles to help. Let me know if you have any specific questions and I can answer them here.