Turn GIFs into Live Photos on Your iPhone

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Get a lifetime subscription to VPN Unlimited for all your devices with a one-time purchase from the new Gadget Hacks Shop, and watch Hulu or Netflix without regional restrictions, increase security when browsing on public networks, and more. Keep Your Connection Secure Without a Monthly Bill. D8TIfsBwyd - Twitter December 11, 2019ĭon't Miss: Enable Dark Mode & OLED Night Mode in the Twitter App You can now upload your iOS Live Photos as GIFs anywhere you upload photos on Twitter. For now, we know that the feature applies when using the Twitter app itself, but it may not work when sharing a Live Photo to Twitter or when using the web app in a browser. You can see how this works in Twitter's promotional video below. It's not exactly the same as being able to upload and view real Live Photos in tweets, but it sure beats having to convert them to movie files first. That's it! Twitter changes your Live Photo into a GIF, ready to be shared with the world. You'll know it's a live photo if it says 'LIVE' with an image of concentric circles in the upper let hand corner.With your photo selected, tap 'Add.' Finally, tap 'GIF' in the bottom left of the photo preview. Open the Photos app and select your Live Photo

Here's how to convert your live photos into a video using just your iPhone. However, Apple made this transformation even easier with the release of iOS 13 in 2019, no shortcuts or external apps required. You could also use another third party app to turn live photos into. This previously required downloading a third party Shortcut, such as the Convert LivePhotos to Video (Opens in a new tab) shortcut. To do this, you need to convert a live photo into a video.

But what if you want to share the whole sequence of moving images on a device other than a smartphone, or as a. You'd think this would be a video, but it's actually a High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) format the file automatically selects one still as the lead image. To view the whole sequence, you just press and hold the live photo. Live photos capture three seconds of video in total, with one and a half seconds recorded both before and after the shutter clicks. In 2015, Apple Harry Potter-ized our pics with the introduction of photos-as-moving-pictures, aka 'live photos.'

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