iOS 18 Memory Movie is one of Apple Intelligence’s best features — here’s how to use it

1. Head to the Photos app to create a Memory Movie

On your iPhone, launch the Photos app and scroll down to find the Memories section. (Remember, you can customize the iOS 18 Photos app so that Memories appears wherever you want it to.) When you find Memories, you'll see a prompt to create a Memory Movie in the first window of the carousel, as well as a Create command. Tap either one to get started.

The Memory Movie feature has some prompts that you can tap to get started. Or you can type in your own idea for a movie. I find the more specific the prompt the better. You can also suggest a music style to accompany your slideshow — a feature that works best if you're an Apple Music subscriber and can pull from a wider library of songs. When you've completed your prompt, hit the Done button or the up arrow in the text field.

3. Watch your Memory Movie

Here's where you sit back and let Apple Intelligence do its thing. You'll see photos from your library and keywords come together while the Memory Movie is assembled. When everything's put together, the movie starts playing automatically.

4. Edit your Memory Movie's music and filters

Apple Intelligence picks the music for your Memory Movie automatically, but if you'd like to mix things up, tap the musical note icon in the bottom left corner of the screen. On the ensuing Memory Mixes screen, you can scroll to the right to hear more potential soundtracks or tap on the music note icon with the plus button to see a list of suggestions. Next to that is a filters button; tap that to change the filter of the photos in your Memory Movie. (Whatever filter you select will apply all images in the movie.) 

Tap on the Memory Mix screen to go back to the main view.

5. Perform additional edits

You may want to make additional changes to the assembled Memory Movie. If so, tap on the More button in the upper right corner of the screen. (It's the one with three dots.) A menu will appear with your options. Here's where you can write a new title for your Memory Movie or edit the movie timeline. 

Choose that latter option, and you see a grid of the images that appear in your Memory Movie. You can reorder the slides by dragging and dropping them anywhere in the timeline. Pressing and holding on a slide gives you the option to hide it from the movie; you can also opt to make that slide a key image in the movie, too. The Plus button in the lower right corner lets you manually select photos from your library for this Movie Memory.

6. Give feedback on the Memory Movie you've created

Because Movie Memory is in beta, Apple would appreciate your feedback so that Apple Intelligence gets, well, smarter about assembling these slideshows. To give feedback, tap the feedback icon in the lower right corner. You can then select whether the slideshow looks good or if there's a problem. If the latter, you get a list of potential problems, and you can tick off as many that apply. (Samples include the wrong music, images that didn't match your prompt and so on.) Whether good or bad, you can then upload a report to Apple.

7. Delete your Memory Movie

Did the Memory Movie miss the mark? That's OK, you're not stuck with it. From the Memories carousel in the main Photos interface, just tap and hold on the Memory Movie. From the pop up menu that appears, you can select Delete Memory. The Feature Less option will also show the movie less if you're merely lukewarm about it. You can also pin or favorite the movie from here if you're a fan.