How to Create Photo Memories
Memories are created automatically in iOS. All you need to do is continue capturing images and video, and Photos will dynamically sort them into Memories based on dates and the amount of media generated over a certain period. If you’d like to create your own Memory from a collection of photos or videos, you will have to do it manually. That means sorting them into a customized album.
How to Manually Create a Memory
Not all of your actual memories fit snugly into Photos’ interpretation of events, holidays, and gatherings. So you may want to create your own album or Memory to better reflect reality. Here’s how to create new Memories in Photos for iOS:
How to Create a Memory of a Specific Person
This is a cool trick that will create a dynamic slideshow from the photos and videos you have of a specific person.
How to Create a Memory of a Specific Date or Event
You can follow the same instructions to create a memory and slideshow for a specific date or event in your camera roll. Here’s how:
How to Edit a Memories Slideshow
Despite its automatic functionality, the Memories feature is not perfect at recognizing people, places, or events. For this reason, Photos allows ample ways to edit Memory slideshows. Here’s how: The Title section allows you to edit the title, the sub-title and choose the font for the title. In music, you can choose one of the stock songs or any song from your device’s library. When you edit the duration of a Memory, the Photos app will choose which photographs to add or subtract, so you will want to do this before you edit the photo selection. This allows you to fine-tune photos after you’ve chosen an appropriate length. You can add a photo by tapping the “+” button at the bottom-left of the screen, but you can only add photos that are within the original collection. So, if you created a memory of 2018 photos, you can only add photos from that 2018 collection. This is where creating a new album helps out. If you don’t see the photo you want, you can back out, add the photo to the album, then start the editing process again.
How to Save and Share Memories
Now that you have a custom Memory slideshow, you may want to share it. You can share a slideshow or save it to your device by selecting the Share button while it is playing. All the standard share options are available, including AirDrop, Messages, Mail, YouTube, Dropbox, Facebook, etc. You can even import it into iMovie for further editing. If you select Save Video, the slideshow will be saved to your Videos album in a movie format. This allows you to share it to Facebook or send it as a text message at a later point in time.
