For the first time ever, iOS & iPadOS 18 offer a feature in the Photos app that users have wanted for a long time: looped video playback. This means that when previewing a video in your Photo Library, it will restart from the beginning and play again once the playback reaches its end for a continuous playback that never ends until you swipe away from it.
Screen recording is a feature that comes standard on iPhones and iPads, but if you fancy more advanced screen recording options, then you’re out of luck unless Apple decides to add them later in a software update.
It’s almost like a bad joke how Apple designed the Camera app with a shortcut to your Photo Library, but not vice-versa. In fact, some might call it almost maddening.
When perusing through your iPhone’s Photo Library, you’ll find all your previously snapped photographs and recorded videos. One thing I’ve always noticed about it, however, is that Apple doesn’t offer an automatic replay option for videos saved in the Photo Library.
Automatic replay is available for video content on many third-party apps, and so it always seemed funky to me that Apple didn’t at least provide the option to do the same in the iPhone’s native Photo Library. With that in mind, it’s unsurprising to see that the jailbreak community has once again provided a feature Apple seemingly forgot.