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Personalise your memories in Photos on Mac

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

Change the memory music

Go to the Photos app [] on your Mac.
Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.
Click [the Play button] on a memory to play it, then click [the Music button].
If you dont see [the Music button], move the pointer to get options to appear or press the Space bar.
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.

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

Go to the Photos app [] on your Mac.
Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.
Click [the Play button] on a memory to play it, then click [the Filters button].
If you dont see [the Filters button], move the pointer so that options to appear or press the Space bar.
Select a memory look, then click OK.
[The Photos window showing looks that you can apply to the items in a memory.]

Go to the Photos app [] on your Mac.
Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.
Click [the Play button] on a memory to play it, then click [the More button] in the toolbar.
Choose Edit Title, type a title and subtitle for the memory, then click Rename.

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

Go to the Photos app [] on your Mac.
Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.
Click [the Play button] on a memory to play it, then click [the More button] in the toolbar.
Choose Short, Medium or Long.

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

Go to the Photos app [] on your Mac.
Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.
Click [the Play button] on a memory to play it, then click [the Grid View button].
If you dont see [the Grid View button], move the pointer so that options appear or press the Space bar.
Control-click the photo you want as the key photo, then choose Make Key Photo.

Go to the Photos app [] on your Mac.
Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.
Click [the Play button] on a memory to play it, then click [the Grid View button].
If you dont see [the Grid View button], move the pointer so that options appear or press the Space bar.
Click [the Add button]. (You may need to scroll down.)
Select any photos or videos you want to add, then click Done.

Go to the Photos app [] on your Mac.
Click Collections in the sidebar, then click Memories.
Click [the Play button] on a memory to play it, then click [the Grid View button].
If you dont see [the Grid View button], move the pointer so that options appear or press the Space bar.
Select the photos you want to move, then drag them to the new position.

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

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