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Facebook for iOS Gaining Support for iPhone 6s Live Photos Starting Today
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When I got home from Hawaii I looked at my photos in Google Drive. Some of them had a star. Turns out when I took a series of photos of a whale breaching the water it put them together and animated them. I had a few stared photos.
My last trip I took my wife to Ireland with side trip to Paris. When we got home I noticed some multi gigabyte files. Turns out when I would turn my camera on it would record video all the time I was panning around zooming or anything else I did with the camera. I also has audio so I could hear the click when I took a picture. You have your 3 second video. I have almost a complete video walk through of Trim castle and other places. Also have a video of the Eifel tower flashing lights.
My thoughts exactly. I have an almost four year old son and it's great to see the moments just before and after the photo was taken.
We have two dogs-the same principle applies.
That doesn't remove the Live part, just mark it so the phone won't play when you 3D touch. You can revert anytime. Lean removes the video part permanently (I made Lean).
Life photos are fantastic. A smiling photo of my 4 year old suddenly turns into him seeing me, covering his eyes, and saying "stop it!" That captures a memory and the laughs with it far better than a still shot and much simpler than a video...
This. There will be bad Live Photos but a single good one is more than enough reason to keep it on permanently.
Would be nice if they could be uploaded as animated gifs for people on other devices
Once you lose the sound, you lose a lot of what makes them great IMO.
I deleted the Fecbook app a month ago for egregious use in background even when background refresh is disabled. I haven't looked back since.
The difference between this method and using an app like Lean is that your method doesn't delete the video elements from the phone. This might be an issue for those concerned with space. (Sorry, looks like this has already been covered)
It already does so on the photos my wife sends me from her 6s to my 6. It shows the nested circles on each live photo for me.
Yes, I know Peter. But what I mean is that I can't see a symbol for the Live Pictures in my own Albums in my photo app. When I send Live Pics via iMessages, then the symbols are displayed. I find that a bit strange.
Hmm, interesting. I juist had a look and photos that were shared are visible with a symbol in the activity stream, but indeed in my own albums the symbol is absent too. Strange inconsistency. Must be an oversight.
Actually this article is wrong, there is an app that lets you take live photos with any IOS device that runs 9. I use it on my 6 on a regular basis. In addition, you can export your live photos as GIF, movies, or other formats to share with non IOS users:
Camera for Live Photos (https://appsto.re/us/QBSP-.i)
Camera for Live Photos (https://appsto.re/us/QBSP-.i)
