Did you know that your iPhone, using iOS 15, creates videos for you? This feature can be found in your Photos app. And you can tweak the ready-made videos more to your liking by telling it to “lessen a subject” within Memories.
I created the video below with just a few taps. Let’s walk through how to do this together.
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Lessening a subject within Memories
1. Open Photos on your iPhone
2. Tap on the For You tab at the bottom. This will produce the Memories section. In the Memories section, you may play the videos if you would like. If you don’t see what you are looking for, simply press See All in the upper right corner as shown above.
3. After you have selected the video that you wish to change, tap the circle with the three dots in the upper right hand corner.
4. Tap on Feature Less.
5. Select what category you wish to have less of in your video. The selection that the Photos app offers will depend on what is in your Memories. I have a feeling that this will become more specific with new iOS 15 updates and faster iPhone processors.
Refining the photos in the video further
Check out the video again. Is it to your liking? If so, then you are finished!
However, if you want to refine your video further by removing certain photos from the video, you can do that too.
1. Tap the circle with the six white boxes on the lower right side. If you don’t see this immediately, simply tap anywhere on the Memories video. This will produce the three icons on the bottom, which will produce thumbnails of all the photos the video uses.
2. Tap on the circle with the three icons in the upper right.
3. Tap Manage Photos. From there, simply select photos that you wish to remove. You will only remove them from the Memories video, not from your phone.
4. When finished, press Done.
Saving the video
I started working on the video by turning the camera and viewing it in landscape orientation. The reason for this was in part so that the video would default to landscape orientation. However, you can change that.
1. Viewing your Memories video again, tap on the upload icon. This is the box with the arrow facing upward. If you do not see it, tap on the video to produce the icons.
2. Tap on Options. Here, you can change the video to either Landscape, Portrait or Square, as well as change the aspect ratio. When finished, press Done.
3. Here, you can upload it using a number of apps or choose Save Video or several other options. From my experience, I found that saving the video first and then sending that file worked best.
Thoughts
A great aspect of this is that the video algorithms iOS 15 are employing seem to work well. Without having to do more time-consuming video editing and adding music, Memories makes it very simple. It’s often already categorized. You can change the music that it has already selected. You can easily share it from your iPhone. And best of all, like many Apple products, it’s very easy to do.
Thank you so much for your detailed explanation of what does what when and how. He provided me a great jumping off point for creating my memories video. These changes are not obvious, at least to me, as I was quite familiar with the previous iteration of the interface. And now if I can only figure out how to change the font…
Hmmmmm…the font…that I do not know. You are most welcome, though. I must say that I found the general approach to be relatively intuitive, and that I could figure out what to do if I poked around in the program long enough.
I’d like to lengthen video clips within the video memory. I could do that before, but now I can’t find the ‘trim’ function. Any idea please?
It is a nice upgrade but I was a frequent user of memories before. I loved it that I could go in and edit the length of a video or add sound or delete sound. it seems as if iOS 15 does not allow any of that. So now if a video is silent you cannot go into it and turn the sound on. Is that correct or am I somehow missing something? I never did a lot of editing and that was the beauty of it. But it was wonderful to be able to do small tweaks. I can’t… Read more »
This was the first time I had messed around with Memories. I attempted several times to take out some of the sound in one of my videos and could not figure out a way to do so. I don’t know whether they are going to add this back in or whether they’ve done a great job of hiding it, I’m not sure.
…looks like there’s no way to add photos either. You only get to play with what you’re given. :((
I don’t remember seeing a way to add photos either, although you were given the option to NOT include some, if I recall correctly. I checked that out using iOS 15 beta since it was obviously written a little while ago, so I can only hope that this sort of thing is addressed in subsequent versions.
The old version was a billion times better. This new version dumbs it down for like 5 years old. You were able to do so much more with the older version. Sad Apple keeps changing things. Memories is useless to me now. One of the few ios functions I still used.
It’s disgustingly horrid now. I can’t stand it
I LOATHE memories now. They took away the ability to manually choose which segments of video to include and many other key controls. It’s horrid now. I hate it. I will have to find a 3rd party app. What a huge disappointment.