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An easy guide to convert Live Photos to shareable videos
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While your iPhone's Live Photo feature offers a cool way to capture a 3-second moving image, these moving images aren’t easy to share with others. Fortunately, saving a Live Photo as a video on your iPhone or iPad only takes a few seconds.
Things You Should Know
- To turn a Live Photo into a video, tap the three dots at the top-right corner of the photo and select "Save as Video."
- To convert multiple Live Photos, tap "Live Photos" on the "Albums" tab, select each Live Photo, tap the three dots, then tap "Save as Video."
- Once you convert the Live Photo to video, it's easy to share on Instagram, TikTok, and more.
Steps
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Open the Live Photo in the Photos app. If the photo isn't already open, you can find your live photos by tapping the Albums tab and selecting Live Photos under the "Media Types" heading. -
Tap the three dots at the top-right corner. A menu will expand.Advertisement -
Tap Save as Video . This instantly saves the Live Photo as a video to your camera roll.- To watch your new video, tap the back button, select the Albums tab, then tap the Recents album. The converted video is the most recent item in the album.
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Tap the Albums tab in the Photos app. If you have more than one Live Photo you want to convert to video, there's an easy way to convert multiple photos at once. -
Scroll down and tap Live Photos . You'll find this under the "Media Types" heading. -
Tap Select and select each Live Photo. Tap each Live Photo you want to save as a video to select it. Selected Live Photos will be labeled with blue and white checkmarks. -
Tap the three-dot menu at the bottom-right corner. It's right next to the trash icon. -
Tap Save as Video . This saves all selected Live Photos as videos. You'll find the converted videos in your Recents album.
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- After converting multiple Live Photos to video, you can join them together using the iMovie app on your iPhone. [1] X Research sourceThanks
- Converting Live Photos to videos makes it super easy to add them to your TikTok videos and Instagram Reels .Thanks
- You can also convert short videos to Live Photos on your iPhone or iPad using free apps from the App Store.Thanks
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