I use album view for most of my work. I’m finding the image plastered on the background of my album of photos to be very distracting. In some cases the album view is useless because of the background image. I shut off the motion on the background because it was literally making me seasick. Is there anyway of removing that image? So it’s a black background?
iPad Pro, iPadOS 18
Oops-- I was showing an iPhone rather than iPad. But on my iPad, I really looks the same, as long as I have Movie Preview turned off.
With Movie Preview turned on, I get half the screen with the preview image, but it shrinks to that title bar as soon as I de-select Movie Preview.
I tried the iPad in Landscape (my usual locked mode) and in Portrait, and it worked both ways.
Take a blank, black photo and add it to every album. Adjust its position in the album so it is the one that shows behind the thumbnails.
tony.d. wrote: …the background of my album of photos to be very distracting.
I'm not sure what you are meaning about the background. Do you mean the sometimes obnoxious slideshow at the top of the Album? In that, you're not alone, and you have some options. In albums and some collections you can turn off the preview movie by going to the sort menu at the bottom, and choosing View Options,
and then unchecking "Movie Preview."
This is what my Album view looks like:
With the movie preview turned off.
By using "Dark Mode" in Settings or Control Panel
you can have a black background.
Does this work for you?
Yeah. It’s just a static picture. I got rid of the movie preview when they first changed it. Right now it’s just a static image. It’s usually the key photo for the album. What I want is to get rid of this static image. Here’s an example of what I’m seeing. See how the image is in the background, it doesn’t move, but it makes looking at the thumbnails annoying
I'm not sure why we're seeing different things. I'm using iPadOS 18.3.2 How about you?
Yeah, I’m not getting a blank background at all. It always a picture from the album.
Well, that would work. I’d lose the thumbnail for the sidebar but at this point anything is better than the status quo.
I’m on 18.4 and now that I’m thinking about it this is a new issue. It wasn’t like this before this update. They changed something.
tony.d. wrote: I’m on 18.4 and now that I’m thinking about it this is a new issue. It wasn’t like this before this update. They changed something.
18.4 is no different for me with this.
It works but I lose the thumbnail for every album. That makes it easy to find the album visually. Thanks though
Removing the background image in album view Photos App iPadOS 18.4
