How to Take Live and Animated Photos on iPhone

This step-by-step guide explains how to take live and animated photos on iPhone. It covers the required setup, the main actions, and the checks that help prevent common problems.

If you have recently purchased an iPhone (6S and above), you will love the new iOS feature of Live photo. If you haven't loved this feature yet, it's probably because you're not familiar with it.

The best way to describe Live images is to compare it with a GIF animation. When you take a moving object and the iPhone captures the image as a short movie.

• Instructions on how to convert Live Photos to still images on iPhone

If you look carefully, you will see this image saved as an MOV file. This file will take up more space than still images, so you should save the Live image selectively.

Make Sure That the Object You Want to Capture Live Must Move

Live photo as a short movie in which the object to be captured moves. Therefore, you need to make sure the object you want to capture moves. Live photos only work when things move.

Another important thing you need to know is that taking Live photos takes more time than taking still images for a few seconds. When the Live image is being captured, Live appears at the top of the screen.

When this text disappears, your Live photo has been taken, and it will be saved to Photos. To capture the subject's movement, you need to hold the phone still until it's complete. You can use the volume down button to take photos for the best quality.

Also, note that Live photos also save sound. Make sure you don't say anything while shooting.

How to Open and Turn Off Live Shooting Mode on iPhone

To open or turn off Live shooting mode, simply press the icon on the camera screen. When you regularly take still images, the iPhone will also "recommend" this feature to you, and then you can turn off the feature from anywhere on the screen.

When you view photos in Photos, it is difficult to distinguish between stills and live photos. However, when sharing, Live photos will have the words 'live' appear in the upper left corner of the thumbnail.

Live photos do not have their own albums like slo-mo, bursts, and selfies. So to distinguish Live photos from other images, you need to tap it.

How to Install Live Photos as iPhone Wallpapers

You can use Live photos as animated backgrounds for lock screens. Open Settings , select Wallpaper .

You can also display Photos directly as live wallpapers on your lock screen. To do this, open Settings and press "Wallpaper".

Next select All Photos To open all photos taken.

From the pictures taken, select the Live photo you want.

When selecting a photo, you need to select Live Photo . To check, tap the screen and see the motion of the image. Then select Set .

Next choose Live photo settings as lock screen, main screen or both. You can select them all, but to make Live photo an animation, you need to set it up as a lock screen.

So done. Your lock screen has been installed using Live photos. Select it to see the motion.