Bonus tip: click the “Live” in the top left to switch it to other options, like Loop and Bounce. Makes them WAY cooler in my opinion!!
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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If you click edit, then live, you can scrub, then if you find a point in the pic you like better, you can click on it and make it the key photo!
This is what makes live photos so valuable to me.
I used to use this a lot more until I realized it ruined image quality
I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean using live photos ruins image quality or scrubbing and changing the key photo ruins image quality. Personally I've never had an issue ever. I use it regularly and keep my photos very close to my heart. I tag photos with people, review tags, remove duplicate photos, bad photos, or screenshots I don't need anymore. I have multiple albums and sorted. I have just over 9000 photos and just over 300 videos. I love the live photo because I can scrub until I find that perfect moment during the live and make that the key photo.
A Live Photo is really a photo, and a video of the seconds before and after that photo.
If you choose another part of those few seconds to be the photo part, you’re basically making a frame grab from a video the photo.
Frame grabs from video are of worse quality than a still photo.
The new key photo loses hdr and is lower resolution
this is correct. however, it’s worth noting that over the years, despite the fact that the 12MP sensor stayed flagship for almost a decade, the Live Photo’s video metadata became higher resolution with every new iPhone generation
Amazing. I love this.
I consider myself pretty knowledgeable in terms of little useful iOS gestures but this one is didn’t know, TIL!