Live Photos
How to Save Multiple Live Photos as a Video on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
With Apple’s Live Photos feature, the camera captures 1.5 seconds before and after you snap a picture, recording both movement and sound. In iOS 13 and iPadOS, it’s now possible to stitch together multiple Live Photos (or just a single Live Photos) to make a video. This is handy if you snapped numerous pictures of...
Apple Launches LivePhotosKit JS to Embed Live Photos on Websites
Apple has announced a new API called LivePhotos JS, which will allow users to embed their Live Photos on the web: This new JavaScript-based API makes it easy to embed Live Photos on your websites. In addition to enabling Live Photos on iOS and macOS, you can now let users display their Live Photos on...
View Apple’s Live Photos on the Web with Tumblr
For the first time, users can now enjoy Apple's Live Photos on the web, thanks to Tumblr who yesterday announced its support for the animated image format Apple introduced last year with the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. From now on, whenever you see the Live Photo icon on the web, simply click and hold to make it animate,...
WhatsApp Beta Reveals Live Photos Support Coming
Live Photos may be a great way to make moments more vivid by capturing motion and sound, but it is limited to iPhone 6s or iPhone SE owners. WhatsApp has been busy making this available to all its users, according to the Netherlands-based iCulture blog. Support for Live Photos appeared to WhatsApp beta testers with an...
Rotate Live Photos on iPhone with ‘LiveRotate’ for iOS
LiveRotate is a new app for iPhone, which allow rotations of Live Photos without losing video, audio, or metadata. If you have ever tried to rotate a Live Photo using the built-in iOS tools, you would have noticed that it saves it as a static image. LiveRotate fixes this and allows users to rotate Live Photos by...
Samsung to Copy Apple’s Live Photos with ‘Vivid Photo’ Feature
Apple debuted Live Photos with the iPhone 6s / 6s Plus, a feature that records 1.5 seconds of video before and after a picture is taken to truly capture the moment. Even though the same was possible before that by using third party apps, the idea really took off when Apple incorporated it into the iPhone’s...
Facebook Support for Apple’s Live Photos Rolls Out in Canada and More [u]
Apple introduced Live Photos with the launch of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus just over two months ago and it seems that the social networking giant Facebook is already pushing support for the new format. As pointed out by TechCrunch, Facebook is rolling out the ability to upload and view Live Photos from within their iOS...
Convert Live Photos to Normal Photos in iPhone 6s / 6s Plus
A simple new app called Lean by Tiny Whale discovered by the folks over at MacStories, lets you convert or 'clean up’ Live Photos captured using an iPhone 6s / 6s Plus into normal, still photos by removing video from them. The app is available as a free download in the App Store, and enables...
How to Convert iPhone 6s Live Photos into GIFs and Videos Easily
iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus users have access to an exclusive feature called Live Photos, which takes 1.5 seconds of videos before and after you snap a picture to create an animated GIF with audio. This has so far been one of my favourite features of the iPhone 6s, as Live Photos add new...
Apple Responds To Concerns Over Privacy Issues With ‘Hey Siri’ and Live Photos
Apple’s “Hey Siri” and Live Photos features have raised some questions about how the company will maintain user privacy. The “Hey Siri” features on the iPhone 6s no longer requires that your phone be plugged in to power to be activated. The always listening aspect has logically raised some questions about how the voice data...
Live Photos Take Up Same Space as Two 12 MP Still Images
When it comes to the iPhone 6s' camera, Apple highlights three major improvements, one of which is Live Photos. As explained by Phil Schiller during the keynote, Live Photos do take still photos, but also capture an additional 3 seconds before and after the photos were taken. Here is how Apple describes it. A still photo...