How to Create a Video Slideshow on Your iPhone using Photos

If you want to create a video to share with friends and family using the pictures and videos on your iPhone, the Memories function in Photos is a great tool to use. Although it may be difficult to discover initially, the Memories feature provides an option to create video montages that can be saved and shared.

In this article, we will explain how to select your photos and videos and edit your memories to create a perfect video.

Edit Your Memories in Photos

You can use Memories to create a video and photo montage of a vacation or to create a beautiful slideshow that you can share with your friends and family. To get started, follow these steps:

1. Open Photos on your iPhone
2. Collect the photos and videos you want to include in an album. To do this, tap Select, choose all the pictures and videos you want to include, tap Add to, tap New album, name your album, and tap Save.
3. Go to the Albums view and find the album you just created (Tap Albums on the bottom left of the menu).
4. Tap the > next to your album title. This will take you to the memory that Apple has created for you.
5. If you want to change the video clips and music that are included, tap Edit. You will see a dialog box asking you to add the memory to Reminders. Tap OK.
6. The next screen provides options to edit the title, title image, music, duration, and more.
7. You can tap duration to lengthen the video, so more of your pictures and videos are included in your memory.
8. To change the pictures and videos used in your memory, tap Photos and Videos. Here you can see the pictures and videos already in your memory. However, these most likely aren’t all of the pictures and videos you added to the album.
9. To view all the pictures and videos in the album, tap the + icon. Here you will see which pictures and videos are selected and which aren’t. Assuming you want to use all of them, select all items here and tap Done.
10. If you want to edit a video clip, swipe to the clip you want to edit and slide the yellow markers to the beginning and end of the clip.
11. Browse all video clips and pictures on this view, and if you decide you want to delete any, tap the trash bin. Be careful not to accidentally delete anything because if you want to add it again, you’ll lose what you’ve already edited!
12. When you finish editing, tap the < icon at the upper left to return to the editing screen.
13. If you feel the music doesn’t match your video montage, tap Music. Choose from the soundtracks that Apple provides, your own music collection, or none.
14. To change the title of your video or the title style, tap Title. Here you can edit the words, font, and size.
15. Now you can see what your montage will look like in portrait or landscape mode. So, if you’ve watched the video in portrait, you can see what it will look like in landscape. However, you can’t choose to display some pictures and videos in panorama and others in portrait.
16. When you finish editing, tap Done. Tap the play button to view your masterpiece.
17. To share your video, tap the Share icon, select Export Movie, and wait for the video to be exported. The finished video will be added to your Photos library.
18. Locate the film in Photos and tap the Share icon to share the video with your friends and family.