Anyone else have years of photos on their phone that they can’t bring yourself to delete even though you rarely look at them? Do you also feel guilty about having these photos and not doing anything with them?
In what might be the best NYTimes article I’ve read in forever: “The Phone Setting That Every Parent Should Try” teaches you how to use your phone’s Photo Shuffle feature.
What is photo shuffle? Essentially, you enable photo shuffle for your lock screen, then your lock screen photo changes automatically. It pulls photos from your photo library based on the people/faces you select during set-up.
(You can manually choose photos, but who has time for that?)
Birthday parties, vacations, holiday celebrations, and more. At all hours of the day, I can look down at my phone and see a random photo of one of my kids or husband. It brings up such wonderful memories. And, I’m seeing my old photos again!
Photo shuffle feature does have some setting options. For example, it can change on tap, on lock, hourly or daily.
I chose for the photos to change hourly. And, I’ve noticed that photos will show a few times within a day or two so if you missed the 2 a.m. photo, it will likely come again later during the daytime.
I had no idea this existed, but enabling this feature is the best. I LOVE IT.
Plus, my kids love seeing old photos of themselves show up. Or they humor me and pretend to care when I show it to them. #momlife
The photo shuffle somehow detects when it can zoom in on a photo to become portrait style of one person, so it doesn’t necessarily have to be a one-person photo to show up.
Since iPhone settings are a maze to me, I took a screenshot from the article with instructions on how to get to it, courtesy of the NYTimes article by Lauren Sullivan:
Note: The article does provide instructions on how to set up something similar on an Android phone. Since I have an iPhone, I can’t speak to it though.
Seriously, if you haven’t tried this feature yet, please do. Ms. Sullivan was right to title her article “The Phone Setting That Every Parent Should Try” because it is so accurate.
I’m glad I came across the article and tried the photo shuffle iPhone feature. I hope you give it a chance too!
Have you tried the photo shuffle setting on your phone? If so, what do you think? Have you heard about it before? Thanks for reading!
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