Before you begin
- Make sure your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch has the latest version of iOS or iPadOS.
- If you want your Memories to stay updated across your Apple devices, make sure that you're signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID across your devices, then turn on iCloud Photos.
Explore your Memories
To see your Memories, open Photos and go to the For You tab. You can tap a Memory thumbnail to open it and see all the photos and videos in that particular Memory, or you can tap See All to scroll through all of your Memories.
When you open a Memory, you can scroll down to see the people included in the memory, a map showing where the photos and videos were taken and a list of related Memories. To create Memories, Photos uses machine learning to analyse your library on your device. Your data isn't sent to Apple, so your memories stay private and only you can see them.
People
Tap the thumbnail of a person or a group of people to see more photos of them.
Places
Tap the map to see more photos taken nearby. Then select a badge on the map to see the collection of photos at that location.
Related Memories
Discover other Memories related to the one you're currently viewing. Memories are organised by people, places, scenes, events, pets, holidays, activities and more.
Watch a Memory movie
Photos automatically creates a short movie for each Memory, complete with transitions, music and featured photos and videos from your library. To watch a memory movie, just tap the Memory.
Create your own Memories
Photos automatically creates Memories for you, but you can create your own Memories and even add someone from your People album to your Memories.
To create your own Memories from an album, or a specific month or day:
- Go to the Albums tab and select the album. Or go to the Library tab and tap Months or Days.
- Tap the More button
, then tap Play Memory Movie.
- While the movie plays, tap the screen, then tap Edit.
- Tap OK, then make edits to the movie if you want.
- Tap Done.
To add someone in your People album to your Memories:
- Go to the Albums tab, then tap the People album.
- Tap the thumbnail of the person, then tap the More button
.
- Tap Add to Memories.
Save and share your favourite memories
Want to save a memory for later? Go to the For You tab, then select a Memory. Tap the More button , then tap Add to Favourite Memories. To see your Favourite Memories, go to the For You tab, tap “See All” next to Memories, then tap Favourites. If you decide that you don't want to save a Memory any more, tap the More button
, then tap Remove from Favourite Memories.
Play a Memory movie, then tap it to show the editing and sharing options.- Tap the Share button
and choose to share the movie through Messages, Mail, Shared Albums or your favourite social media sites.
Find out more
Find out more about using Memories on your Mac.