The featured photos can not be unchanged and are shown randomly according to our memories. Fortunately, you have a choice to remove unwanted photos so that they are not randomly picked by your iPhone. In this article, we have provided some ideas on how to change featured photos on iPhone.

The Photos app on your iPhone has a widget that shows images from your phone on your home screen. These images are picked randomly from your memories and shown as a slideshow on the widget. If you are trying to change the featured photos then stop because that is not possible.  You can only remove the photos from the widget so that they don’t end up on your home screen again.

Although you cannot change the photos from the widget, you still have a choice to remove them. You can do that either by the Photos app or the widget itself. The step-by-step guideline to remove featured photos in iOS 14 and 15 is given below.

From Photos App

Here’re the steps you need to follow:

From Home Screen

To change the featured photos, follow the steps below:

Now that you have learned how to remove featured photos that show up in your Photos widget, did you also know that you can remove photos of a certain person? If you want to see someone else’s faceless on your home screen then you can manage that too. Follow these steps to make someone less frequently show up on your home screen:

Since the photos widget on your home screen fetches the photos from your memories and featured photos, you can manage what type of photos you want on your screen. Even if you no longer want to see some photos, the photos widget might randomly pop them on your screen someday. To avoid this, you can choose to feature any place, holiday, and day less frequently. Here’s how to remove featured photos of certain memory:

How to Remove Photos Widget from iPhone?

You can remove the photos widget from your home screen if you no longer want random images to appear. To do that just tap and hold the widget and tap on Remove Widget then Remove.

The iPhone has yet to have an “add feature” on featured photos. You can only remove any unwanted photos from the memories but not add to it. Hence the photos widget is not totally customizable.

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