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Personalize your memories in Photos on Mac

You can personalize your memory movies—for example, choose new songs, edit the title of a memory, change the length, and remove photos.

The Photos window showing a memory ready to play. A Rewind button, a Music button, a Filters button, a filmstrip with thumbnails of photos in the memory, a Play button, and a Grid View button appear at the bottom.

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Change the memory music

  1. Go to the Photos app on your Mac.

  2. Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.

  3. Click the Play button on a memory to play it, then click the Music button.

    If you don’t see the Music button, move the pointer so that options appear, or press the Space bar.

  4. Select a song or soundtrack from your music library, then click OK.

    Apple Music subscribers can click Browse to search for songs in the Apple Music library.

Change the memory look

Use memory looks to apply consistent color and style adjustments to all the photos in a memory.

  1. Go to the Photos app on your Mac.

  2. Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.

  3. Click the Play button on a memory to play it, then click the Filters button.

    If you don’t see the Filters button, move the pointer so that options appear, or press the Space bar.

  4. Select a memory look, then click OK.

    The Photos window showing looks that you can apply to the items in a memory.

Edit the memory title and subtitle

  1. Go to the Photos app on your Mac.

  2. Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.

  3. Click the Play button on a memory to play it, then click the More button in the toolbar.

  4. Choose Edit Title, type a title and subtitle for the memory, then click Rename.

Change the length of a memory

Depending on the number of photos in a memory, you can change the length of a memory to be short, medium, or long.

  1. Go to the Photos app on your Mac.

  2. Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.

  3. Click the Play button on a memory to play it, then click the More button in the toolbar.

  4. Choose Short, Medium, or Long.

Choose a new key photo for a memory

You can choose the photo that appears with the memory title.

  1. Go to the Photos app on your Mac.

  2. Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.

  3. Click the Play button on a memory to play it, then click the Grid View button.

    If you don’t see the Grid View button, move the pointer so that options appear, or press the Space bar.

  4. Control-click the photo you want as the key photo, then choose Make Key Photo.

Add photos or videos to a memory

  1. Go to the Photos app on your Mac.

  2. Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.

  3. Click the Play button on a memory to play it, then click the Grid View button.

    If you don’t see the Grid View button, move the pointer so that options appear, or press the Space bar.

  4. Click the Add button. (You may need to scroll down.)

  5. Select any photos or videos you want to add, then click Done.

Change the order of photos or videos in a memory

  1. Go to the Photos app on your Mac.

  2. Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.

  3. Click the Play button on a memory to play it, then click the Grid View button.

    If you don’t see the Grid View button, move the pointer so that options appear, or press the Space bar.

  4. Select the photos you want to move, then drag them to the new position.

Delete a memory

You can delete a memory that you no longer want. The photos remain in your library; only the memory is deleted.

  1. Go to the Photos app on your Mac.

  2. Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.

  3. Control-click a memory, choose Delete Memory, then click Delete Memory.

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