I have lots of photos and memories of people I have lost in my life and definitely have no desire to delete those photos. However, I don't want to relive the pain of losing them by getting unexpected photo memories on their birthday or other anniversaries.
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iOS 15 Finally Lets You Block Your Exes From Ruining Your Photo Memories
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The Ai, Machine Learning, For You, Memories, feature of the Photos App sucks
I was unaware they got divorced. I am still amazed (read: shocked) that a couple who have been married for multiple decades can end up in divorce every day. A sad state of affairs.
A problem I don't have, as I've never had an ex!
*Sigh*
*Sigh*
If Apple really cared about their users one of the options would be, "Scratch their eyes out and also make them look 50% fatter."
It’s pretty evident this feature would not be applicable to everyone, but the reality is, not everybody wants somebody that’s no longer personal in their life, to be involved in their photos. That’s the main point here. If anything, this is a really well executed feature, but for a select group of people that actually may have had indifferences with somebody else.
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Same applies even more to a dead family member. I remember my departed grandparents when I'm in church or something, but I don't want to be reminded right before a meeting. Would be still worse if it were a tragic death.
Also, if you want to delete, might be a ton of photos.
Red flag: people who have a pattern of troubled relationships with their exes.
Drama just follows some people around. 🤔
Now let us turn off the ‘people’ feature. I can delete every face in photos & they’ll always reappear. Why undo what I deleted, clearly I don’t want to use this feature.
OMG, I have secretly wanted this. Like I'm not going to delete my ex-husband from my actual photo album, but I don't really need pictures of us popping up on my watch or where ever else Siri makes suggestions.
But when it is your kid's photos and they just also have her dad in them-- I don't want to delete those memories-- just don't want them randomly popping up. And even my wedding photos-- it was a beautiful day-- I don't want to delete those. Also don't really want to look at them unless I choose to go look at them.
I saw Google do this. What are we, the Soviet Union? Airbrushing out people we no longer like?
Why? Because a photo makes us sad or angry?
Why? Because a photo makes us sad or angry?
I am grateful for that.
lol I am allergic to needless drama and verbal diarrhea.Can't they just make the feature completely optional? I completely hate it. I don't need to see photos of my dead cat. I don't need to be prompted to randomly see photos from my collection. And I definitely don't want my phone identifying different people for me. Make these features optional, already!
Cheaper to keep her.*
*This is not meant to be a sexist remark. Cheaper to keep him doesn't rhyme!
Because if you have remarried, then your new spouse might not take kindly to seeing their predecessor suddenly pop up. I’ve always thought the inability to manage memories in this way was pretty crass really.