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!
j
Still an issue in 18.5. The black photo added to every album is a non-starter, unworkable, untenable suggestion. I have hundreds of albums.
Same here. No change in 18.5. I’m hoping iPadOS 26 fixes this. I agree, adding a black image to every album isn’t a workable solution.
I tried a forced restart. No change. Can’t image a third party app would create this mess. And I have so many it take months to figure which one.
Well that solved it. Thank you! I made my day!
Congratulations and thank you very much for tracking down this solution! 🎆
What a difference!
There is still a faint shadow of the background image, but much less distracting.
Yes, I did when I realized I wasn’t the only one. I’m not expecting it fixed until iPadOS 26. I haven’t tested the Public Beta.
I HATE this! Just give me a black background please!
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Dj Twelvizm wrote: I HATE this! Just give me a black background please!
Perhaps you should read about the solution in this thread. Reading is good.
kyiakr wrote: I found the answer in a Reddit Post.
You know, it might have been easier to find by just looking at all the answers here.
Thank you!
Removing the background image in album view Photos App iPadOS 18.4
