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Josh Render

iPhone Live Photos are easy to combine into a single video— here’s how to do it

How to turn off Live Photos in iPhone Photos app.

Using your iPhone to turn several Live Photos into a video is remarkably simple, even if it's a feature you could easily overlook. Still, it can be done without adding any extra software to your phone, as we're about to show you, and the results can have a dynamic impact on those photos you've collected.

Live Photos capture a few seconds of video before and after the shot to give your pictures feelings of movement and life, making it feel like you captured a small part of the experience in one shot. But Live Photos don't transfer well to other devices, especially to smartphones beyond the ones made by Apple. Instead, turning those Live Photos into video clips is the easiest way to make them more shareable, and putting several into one single file makes sending them on even more effective.

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