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'm 100% sure its a bug. when i turn dark mode off it goes back to normal but as soon as its on theres an image in the background that cannot be moved... it has to be an error if it isn't consistent between modes as i can't see a single reason why needing a darker screen (usually because white hurts the eyes) means you need even more visual stimulation and confusion with a messy background...
i'm 100% sure its a bug. when i turn dark mode off it goes back to normal but as soon as its on theres an image in the background that cannot be moved... it has to be an error if it isn't consistent between modes as i can't see a single reason why needing a darker screen (usually because white hurts the eyes) means you need even more visual stimulation and confusion with a messy background...
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.
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.
Wow, you’re right. In light mode it’s a white background. The header image is behind the white background. But in dark mode the background is an image. I think you’re right, it’s got to be a bug. When it’s in dark mode it should be the same as light except black instead of white. Why it inserts a picture instead is bizarre
Thanks
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.
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
Yeah, I’m not getting a blank background at all. It always a picture from the album.
I'm not sure why we're seeing different things. I'm using iPadOS 18.3.2 How about you?
I do not like light mode for Photos at all. The white background is hard on the eyes and makes it hard to view the colors properly, so switching to light mode would not help for me. While this problem persists, I am picking key photos for the albums, that are showing a dark background in the upper part, but still allow me to recognize the album in the sidebar by the key photo.
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?
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.
Well, that would work. I’d lose the thumbnail for the sidebar but at this point anything is better than the status quo.
Removing the background image in album view Photos App iPadOS 18.4
