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
I finally found a solution on a macrumors thread and thought I would share here (first time posting so hopefully I'm within the guidelines of linking to an outside webpage - I wanted to credit the poster for the solution)..
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photo-albums-background-another-ios18-blunder-solution.2456456/
Seems it happens when Reduce Transparency is turned on while using Dark Mode, but there is a way to turn it off for just the Photos App.
Basically.. go to Settings > Accessibility,
scroll down and select > Per-App Settings,
select > Add App, then scroll down and select the Photos App,
then Select Photos (on the Per-App-Settings page) and turn OFF Reduce Transparency
It worked for me. I had been taking screenshots of a black screen to put in albums, but I had to repeat that often for the screenshots album to keep it at the top. It was worth it, though kind of a pain.. so really glad to have a better solution!
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Seems there is a hidden setting that is only loosely tethered to any of the settings we have been discussing. My M4 iPad Pro running iPadOS 18.5 (and 18.4 before that) uses a plain background (white or black depending on light or dark mode) below the movie or header stripe (depending on that setting). I'm not a constant user of Albums, but I don't recall seeing the background image that tony.d. shows in any previous 18.x release or recently at all. It does seem familiar from some time ago. Perhaps I turned it off when there was such a setting and that setting "stuck" for me.
markwmsn wrote: … Seems there is a hidden setting
As I've said, I also do not see this effect, as my previous screenshot shows. But I don't know why you and I are different from léonie, tony.d, and others who are seeing this. It's hard to believe it's a setting that none of us can find, but it could be collateral damage from some other seemingly benign setting.
Anyone tried turning Face ID on and off?
OK, I just did--also Loop and Auto-play. I can't make the background image appear. Phase of moon?
I’m having a similar issue. For most of the albums in the left pane whether it’s default or custom, I initially see the key photo as the album background. If I scroll to the top, the background changes to the next photo in the album. It just keeps doing the same thing. I don’t see a different between light or dark modes. Movie preview is off. It’s definitely a distracting experience.
Yes they really screwed the photo app. You can’t search for dates, the video preview and loop never turns off no matter what . I’m not sure why they did this , maybe to make us buy more storage and use that . Are there any third party photo apps I can use instead of the apple photo app.
Your solution is seeming to work for people who have the problem, so congratulations! But I still don't get it. I have an iPad M4, iPad OS 18.5
I've never had the Image background; it's always been white, and I'm grateful. I turned on Reduced Transparency in Accessibility>Display and in Accessibility>Photos, one at a time and both together, and I don't get the image background-- my background is still white. I powered off and on; still white. It's the same on my iPhone 16. And I'm still grateful.
Is there some other setting that is interacting with this?
I'll leave Reduced on for a while and see if anything changes.
Thanks a lot! I was about to go mad by now. I am so fed up and disappointed with what apple has become. Bugs and terrible design choices seems to be piling up and dragging the whole thing down in the mud.
Hey Richard,
Thanks, I really did read the posts but I think my search dropped me into the last page and I didn’t realize there were previous pages. After I posted I did see the other pages and read them and saw your post 🙄 and felt like a ninny 😕
kyiakr wrote: …After I posted I did see the other pages and read them and saw your post 🙄 and felt like a ninny 😕
Well, I'm feeling a bit nannyish, myself. The best answer is supposed to be right at the top-- the default setting here is to put highest "rank" first. But sometimes the highest rank is just the one with the longest rant, so you can't really count on that. I set the order to the newest first, thinking the value ought to be increasing as people read through the thread-- but that doesn't always work, either.
We're all subject to the "ninny" effect.
I’ve gone through all the answers suggested on here and I still can’t see photo albums in the way that I want to. I just want to see the photos and thumbnails in albums and I don’t want a background. I don’t want them in a little collage pattern. It’s infuriating. what is going on? It’s just happened tonight to me. How do I get rid of this? This is what I see when I’ve turned accessibility option for the photo app as everyone suggested on here. I don’t just get it in dark mode , I get it in the daytime too in light mode. I really hate this Photos app now with a passion.
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 not sure why we're seeing different things. I'm using iPadOS 18.3.2 How about you?
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
