A Live Photo captures 1.5 seconds of video and audio both before and after you press the shutter button to take a photo. So in addition to a high quality still JPEG image, you also get a 3 second Live Photo. When you view a Live Photo, you don’t just see the still image that you took when you pressed the shutter button. Instead, you’ll see a 3 second moving image.
This allows you to relive the moments just before and after the photo was taken - complete with movement and sound! As you can imagine, it’s great for photographing any scene with moving subjects or interesting sounds. Here’s a 3 second Live Photo taken at the beach that captures the movement of the water and people. In addition to the Live Photo, the iPhone also captures a still image from the exact moment you pressed the shutter button.
How Do Live Photos Work, So how does the iPhone know to record video for the 1.5 seconds prior to your still image if you haven’t pressed the shutter button yet, It’s actually quite simple. With Live Photos enabled, the native camera app will start recording video as soon as you open the app.
That way, when you do press the shutter button, your iPhone has already captured the 1.5 seconds leading up to the button press, and it saves that along with the 1.5 seconds following the image capture. All other video captured prior to the 1.5 seconds before you press the shutter will be discarded, so there’s no need to worry that the constant video recording will fill up your iPhone’s storage. So how do you actually use the Live Photo feature on your iPhone, Let’s take you through a step-by-step guide to shooting, viewing and sharing your own amazing Live Photos.
Open the native camera app and make sure the shooting mode is set to Photo (you can’t shoot Live Photos in any of the other shooting modes). The Live Photos option is the round icon shown on the left of the screenshot below. If the icon is yellow, Live Photos is switched on.
If the icon is white, tap it once to turn on the Live Photos feature. The Live Photos feature is switched on by default, but you can switch it off any time simply by tapping the yellow Live Photos icon. When you switch on Live Photos, the word “Live” appears in a yellow box as shown above.
This will disappear after a couple of seconds. Remember that the 1.5 seconds of video starts before you press the shutter button, so make sure you compose your shot and hold it there for a couple of seconds before you press the shutter. If you don’t do this, the first part of your Live Photo will be of you moving the camera to frame the shot. Likewise, remember that your iPhone will continue recording video for 1.5 seconds after you’ve pressed the shutter, so make sure you keep the phone still for a couple of seconds after taking the shot.
Also, be aware that Live Photos capture audio as well as video, so any sound will be heard in your Live Photo when you play it back. When you no longer want to shoot Live Photos, switch off the Live Photos feature so that the icon turns white. The reason for this is that Live Photos take up a lot of storage space on your iPhone, so if you leave it on for every shot you may find that your phone quickly becomes full.
Once you’ve taken a Live Photo, it will appear in the native Photos app alongside your ordinary still photos. Unfortunately, in thumbnail view, there’s no way of knowing just by looking whether an image in your photo library is a Live Photo. For example, in the screenshot above, there are several Live Photos amongst these images, but it’s impossible to tell which ones they are when viewing them like this. So how do you know which of your images are Live Photos,
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