How to share a live photo as a gif to twitter from your iphone or ipad

Sharing your Live Photos among non-Apple device owners used to be hard. But now Twitter allows you to upload them to the social network as animated GIFs.

One of the biggest advances in mobile picture-taking in the past half-decade has been the introduction of Live Photos. Unfortunately, sharing these movable images with non-Apple device owners has been nearly impossible. Until now, that is. Twitter now makes it possible for iPhone or iPad device owners to share Live Photos on the social network. Here’s how it works.

What are Live Photos?

First introduced on the iPhone 6s in 2015, Live Photos allows you to take images that come alive when you touch them. The images use the 1.5 seconds before and after a picture are taken with a supported device, capturing both movement and sound. Best of all, you take a Live Photo just like you do a traditional photo.

Live Photos are available on the iPhone 6s or later, iPad (5th generation) or later, iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad mini (5th generation), iPad Pro (all models), and iPod touch (7th generation).

Taking a Live Photo

To take a Live Photo on your supported Apple device:

1. Tap on the Camera app.
2. Be sure that your Camera is set to photo mode and that Live Photos is turned on at the top of the camera.
3. Tap the shutter button to take a photo.

Live Photos are on by default. To turn the feature off, tap on the Live Photos button at the top of the Camera app. You can change the default setting by going into the Settings app. From then, tap Camera > Preserve Settings.

Looking at Live Photos on a Supported Device

Live Photos on Apple devices are noted through the Photos app. You can find them in one of two ways. In the Photos app:

1. Click on the Photos tab in the Photos app.
2. Tap on a picture, scroll back and forth to see additional photos.
3. Live Photos are identified at the top left of the image.

An easier way to find Live Photos in the Photos app:

1. Tap the Albums tab.
2. Scroll down, tap Live Photos. All the Live Photos on your device are in this location.

To activate a Live Photo, firmly press the screen and hold. You’ll notice movement and sound when applicable.

Sharing Live Photos

To share Live Photos with other Apple device owners:

1. Go into the Photos app.
2. Tap on the photo you wish to share.
3. To share the photo as a Live Photo, tap the Share button at the button left. If you want to share the Live Photo as a regular image (for example, to someone without an Apple device), tap Live in the upper-left corner, then the Share button.
4. Choose how you want to share your photo. Sharing through Mail, the Live Photo is set as a still image.

To view a Live Photo, you receive from someone, firmly press and hold to see it come to life. If you’re using Messages on a Mac, double-click on the Live Photo to open it. The Live Photo plays through once. To play it again, click the Live button in the bottom-left corner of the photo.

What About Twitter?

New support means you can finally share Live Photos via Twitter. In doing so, the Live Photos are automatically converted to a universal animated GIF. To do so, you’ll need to use the Twitter app on your supported Apple device.

To share a Live Photo on Twitter:

1. Choose the official Twitter app on your device.
2. Start a tweet as you always would.
3. Tap the photo icon.
4. Select your Live Photo.
5. Tap Add at the top right.
6. Tap the GIF icon in the lower-left corner of the picture. By default, the GIF icon is deactivated.
7. Finish drafting your tweet.
8. Tap Tweet when finished.

That’s it! The finished tweet displays the Live Photo as a GIF. The sound from the Live Photo doesn’t work through Twitter, however.

Changing Your Live Photos

There are a few ways you can edit your Live Photos, including the ability to add effects. All changes are made in the Photos app on your supported device.

To edit your Live Photos:

1. Go into the Photos app.
2. Tap on the photo you wish to edit.
3. Choose Edit at the top right. You can edit Live Photos just as you would any other photo in the Photos app.
4. Tap Done when you’re done with editing.

To add an effect to your Live Photo:

1. Go into the Photos app.
2. Tap on the photo you wish to add an effect.
3. Swipe up until you see Effects.
4. Choose Loop, Bounce, or Long Exposure.

Your chosen effect is noted at the top left of the image; firmly press and hold to see it come to life. In the following example, the Bounce effect is added:

To change the key image of a Live Photo:

Live Photos are little more than a three-second video that is only active when firmly pressed. Otherwise, the image looks static like a regular image. You can change that key photo:

1. Go into the Photos app.
2. Tap on the photo you wish to change the key photo.
3. Select Edit.
4. Move the slider to change the frame.
5. Release your finger, then tap Make Key Photo.
6. Choose Done.

Until recently, Live Photos were only shareable among Apple device owners. Now, however, you can share these images as GIFs through Twitter. The change is an important step and should make Live Photos more popular.

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In the past, if you ever wanted to tweet the animated Live Photo captured by your iPhone or iPad, you had to convert the image to a GIF. That’s now a thing of the past, as Twitter will do the conversion for you automatically!

Capture a Live Photo on Your iPhone or iPad

Before you can tweet a Live Photo, you’re going to need to enable the Live Photo feature within the iPhone’s or iPad’s camera app and then snap an image. If you already have a Live Photo that you want to share, you can skip to the next section.

Begin by opening the “Camera” app. Use Apple’s Spotlight Search if you can’t find the app on your home screen.

Next, ensure that the Live icon found in the top-right corner isn’t crossed out. If it is, tap on the button so that it looks like the below image (1).

With the feature enabled, tap on the shutter button (2) to capture a Live Photo.

Tweet the Live Photo as a GIF from Your iPhone or iPad

Now that you have your Live Photo, it’s time to tweet it. Although we’re going to show you how to embed and share the GIF as a new tweet, you can also follow these steps to send the Live Photo in “Retweets With Comment,” replies, and DMs.

Start by opening the “Twitter” app. Again, use Spotlight Search to locate the social media app if it isn’t quickly accessible.

From the Home tab, tap on the compose button. Its icon is in the bottom-right corner and features a feather encased in a blue circle.

Next, locate and tap on your Live Photo in the quick-access image bar. You should see the Live icon overlayed on the thumbnail.

If you can’t find the Live Photo, select the Gallery button, and then tap on your desired image.

With the Live Photo loaded into the tweet preview, tap on the “GIF” button found in the bottom-left corner of the thumbnail. The Live Photo will be converted to a GIF and will play through once. You can select the Play button that appears when it stops to see the animation again.

Type out a quick message to go along with your GIF and then hit the “Tweet” button.

Twitter today announced support for Apple’s Live Photos, which can now be uploaded to Twitter and shared as GIFs.

Apple first introduced ‌Live Photos‌ in 2015 alongside the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, though most social networks still do not support the format and do not allow ‌Live Photos‌ to play when uploaded.

‌Live Photos‌ are designed to add movement to still photos to bring them to life, similar to the moving photos in the Harry Potter films. When you take a photo on an ‌iPhone‌ with ‌Live Photos‌ enabled, the ‌iPhone‌ captures a few seconds of video before and after the shot to enable the movement.

‌Live Photos‌ are primarily able to be viewed from ‌iPhone‌ to ‌iPhone‌, but there are apps that can convert them into formats supported by social networks like GIFs and videos, which is what Twitter is planning to do.

Give the gift of GIFs. You can now upload your iOS Live Photos as GIFs anywhere you upload photos on Twitter. — Twitter (@Twitter) December 11, 2019

Those who want to share a Live Photo but don’t want it to be shared as an animated GIF can just avoid tapping the GIF button, which will cause it to be uploaded as a traditional still photo.

‌Live Photos‌ support is rolling out to the Twitter app today.

Are you familiar with converting Live Photos to video? It’s just as easy to turn your Live Photos into GIFs. When you’re done, you can share these animated images effortlessly across all platforms.

Starting with the easiest, let’s look at three ways to turn Live Photos into GIFs on iPhone and iPad.

How to turn iPhone Live Photos into GIFs using Photos

1. Open Photos and tap Albums at the bottom. Scroll down and tap Live Photos.
2. Tap on a Live Photo.
   
3. Swipe up. Under Effects, you’ll see four options: Live, Loop, Bounce, and Long Exposure. Select Loop or Bounce.
   

• In Loop, the clip plays followed by a dissolve animation, and then it starts at the beginning again. This repeats indefinitely.
• In Bounce, the clip acts like Instagram Boomerang. That is, it plays, and then plays in reverse. This process also repeats indefinitely.

You’ve converted Live Photos to GIFs on your iPhone. Tap the Share icon to send it easily via chat apps.

How to turn a Live Photo into a GIF using Shortcuts

1. Open Shortcuts and tap Gallery.
   
2. In the search box on top, type “GIF”. You’ll see some suggestions below. Scroll down and tap Convert Photos To GIF. Next, tap AddShortcut.
   
3. Tap My Shortcuts at the bottom left.
4. Next, tap Convert Photos To GIF shortcut. It’ll ask your permission to access photos. Tap OK.
   
5. Tap Live Photos. On the next screen, tap on one and then tap Done. The shortcut will run and convert the Live Photo to a GIF.
   
6. Tap on the Share icon. Next, tap Save Image. You can also use one of the available share options to send the GIF directly via iMessage, WhatsApp, or other such apps.
   

Note: You can also use a third-party shortcut to turn Live Photos into GIFs. One good option is to Convert Live To GIF. But, before you do this, make sure to allow untrusted shortcuts on your iPhone or iPad.

How to convert Live Photos to GIFs using third-party apps

1. Download GIPHY.
2. Tap on Create + → I Agree → OK. Next, tap on the photo icon and tap OK.
3. Tap on a Live Photo. It’ll have the usual circular icon of a Live Photo in the lower right corner.
4. Add text, stickers, etc. if you want to. After that, tap on the arrow icon.
   
5. On the next screen, tap Share GIF → Save GIF to save it locally to Photos.
   

That’s all you need to know to turn your iPhone’s Live Photos into GIFs! Not keen on GIPHY? Take a look at our finest GIF maker apps for iPhone. Try a few and see which works the best for you

Signing off…

These are some of the most straightforward ways to turn a Live Photo into a GIF. Which method worked for you? For me, the Photos app and Shortcuts method seem to be the quickest. But if you want to edit the GIFs and add some extra elements to it, then GIPHY is an excellent choice.

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Live Photos are one of Apple’s signature camera options on iOS, making your photos look like one of the living photographs in Harry Potter. But if you’ve tried to post that Live Photo on Twitter, it would render as a still photo, taking away some of that magic. You could use an app to convert that Live Photo into a GIF and post that new GIF on its own, but that might be more work than you’d want to do.

Starting today, though, Twitter says you can now just post Live Photos as GIFs directly on the platform, no conversion required:

Give the gift of GIFs. You can now upload your iOS Live Photos as GIFs anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.

The feature is pretty easy to use, at least from the Twitter iOS app. When drafting a tweet, select a photo from your camera roll, then tap the “GIF” button in the lower-left corner of the photo in your tweet compose window. Then, when you post the tweet, that photo will be a GIF:

Testing Twitter’s new Live Photos -> GIF feature. Here’s a goat.

I think Live Photos are really fun, so I hope people use this feature to add a little more life to the photos they post on Twitter. At the very least, this new feature let me give the world another GIF of a goat.

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Taken a Live Photo on your iPhone or iPad and want to share it around on social media as a GIF, potentially creating a meme in the process? AppleInsider shows how to convert the clip into one of the most commonly used animated image formats found online.

Introduced in 2015 in iOS 9, Live Photos is a feature of the iOS camera that records the period of time surrounding the moment when the user takes a photograph. Along with the still image, Live Photos can also play the 1.5 seconds before and after the shot as a 15fps video, telling viewers the story about the shot.

Shortly after its creation, various apps and services started to support the image type, enabling them to be shared with other users. There are also options in the Photos app to share the Live Photo with others on social networks and messaging apps, and for most people, that’s more than enough for their needs.

In cases where an app or service simply won’t accept a Live Photo as an image or animation, or if you want to slightly change how it appears, the best option is to create an animated GIF.

Creating the Image

Load up the Photos app and select the Albums tab. In that section, select the Live Photos folder, then tap the specific Live Photo you want to use to bring it fullscreen.

Swipe upwards in the middle of the screen to bring up extra information about the shot. The main element we are interested in is the animation effects selection.

There are four options here, with Live effectively leaving the image as it is, playing just once. Another is Long Exposure, which combines all the frames of the Live Photo into a single image, which can create some artistic effects. Ignore both of these options.

For this, we are interested in the Loop and Bounce options. Loop continuously plays the animation, while Bounce will constantly play the clip forwards then backwards. Select one of these two options.

Navigate back to the Albums tab and select a folder called Animated, which contains any and all animated GIF-style content created on the iPad. If the folder didn’t exist previously, Photos will automatically create it.

Opening the animation in the folder will display the created GIF file. Photos will also display in the top-left corner what kind of animation option was selected for the image.

At this point, the image can be shared via the normal sharing options, or you could email it to yourself as a GIF file.

Further Notes

While this may be seen as a waste of time creating a GIF rather than directly sharing, creating the animation before sharing can help prevent some issues. Not all apps will accept a Live Photo directly as an animation

For example, adding a Live Photo as an attachment in Gmail will result in a JPEG file instead of a GIF, while sending the version from the Animation folder returns the intended GIF.

There is also the added benefit of being able to control how it will be displayed on other platforms, as there’s no guarantee that it will automatically loop on your chosen service.

Users wanting more control over how GIFs appear, or to create GIFs from video clips, can find a wealth of apps in the App Store for the task.

Source: Twitter

What you need to know

• Twitter has added support for Live Photos on iOS.
• Uploaded Live Photos will be converted into GIFs.
• It has taken the social media company four years to add the feature.

Twitter has, after years of waiting, finally announced support for Live Photos in iOS. Reported by Macstories, if you now add a Live Photo to a tweet using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, you will see an option to use the actual Live Photo instead of uploading a still image.

Twitter is accomplishing this by converting your Live Photo into a GIF. When you add a Live Photo to a tweet, a new GIF button appears at the bottom left corner of the Live Photo. It is off by default but by simply tapping it, Twitter will convert your Live Photo into a GIF and tweet it out. Leaving the GIF button grayed out will upload a still image.

The company announced the new feature for iOS in a truly hilarious tweet on its main account on Twitter.

Give the gift of GIFs. You can now upload your iOS Live Photos as GIFs anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.

Live Photos was first released as a feature in iOS 9 and debuted alongside the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. Apple created a new file type that allows you to see a snapshot of time around your photo and, while it may look like a video, it takes up significantly less space. It has, for the last four years, lacked adoption on many popular social media sites, including Twitter. Today, the company has finally brought the feature to its network, saying that it is time to “Let your Live Photos live”.

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If you’ve ever taken a Live Photo on your iPhone, you’ve probably realized that it’s a bit like recording a quick GIF with your camera.

However, Live Photos are a bit different — they aren’t meant to repeat automatically, for example, and only work on Apple devices.

But if you do want to make a GIF on your iPhone, and make these Live Photos repeat, you’re in luck. You can use the native iPhone Photos app to make your Live Photos repeat, and the GIPHY app to create a GIF that can be shared anywhere.

How to make a GIF on an iPhone with the Photos app

First, it should be noted that turning a Live Photo into a GIF through the Photos app won’t create a real GIF — it’ll just create another Live Photo that looks like a GIF when played on an iPhone or iPad.

This means that if you export this Live Photo to a non-Apple device, it still won’t move. You’ll have to use GIPHY to create a real GIF.

1. Open the Photos app on your iPhone and tap on the Live Photo you want to turn into a GIF.

2. Swipe up on the photo to bring up the moving picture menu (Live, Loop, Bounce, Long Exposure).

3. Tap on “Loop” to turn the picture into a repeating GIF. Note, however, that it won’t be a “clean” GIF — instead of simply jumping back to the end of the GIF when it’s finished, the image will fade out, like so:

You can also tap on “Bounce” so that the frames of the picture will go forward and in reverse instead of starting back at the beginning.

How to make a GIF on an iPhone using GIPHY

GIPHY gives many more options for getting creative with your GIFs, allows you to share your new creations with the world, and allows you to download GIFs created by other members of the community.

1. Open the GIPHY app.

2. Tap on the “Create” icon in the top-right.

3. Here you have two options for making your GIF:

• Film a new GIF by tapping on the camera icon, bottom-center.
• Make a GIF from your photos by tapping on the photos icon in the bottom-right, then tapping on the photo you want to use.

4. There are various options for customizing it on the bottom (from left to right): Write a caption, add a filter, add pre-made art and word art phrases, trim your GIF, and more.

Once it’s exactly how you want it, tap on the purple arrow to upload it to GIPHY.

5. On the next page, tap “Upload to GIPHY.” You’ll have to sign up for a GIPHY account before you can upload and save your GIF.

6. Once it’s uploaded, tap on the three vertical dots to open a new menu.

7. Tap “Save to Camera Roll” to download the newly created GIF onto your phone. You can now freely export or post it wherever you like.

Unlike GIFs created with the native Photos app, GIFs created through GIPHY will be clean and complete. They’ll also keep working even when posted online or transferred to another device.

Live Photos – изящное нововведение, которое Apple недавно представила в iOS 9, позволяющее пользователям снимать короткие видеоролики, которые выглядят как фотографии. К сожалению, единственный способ легко поделиться ими – с другими пользователями iPhone. Вот как поделиться ими со всеми.

Нам очень нравятся Live Photos и думаю, что это отличный способ запечатлеть воспоминания за пределами тот же старый формат фото . Тем не менее, если у вас нет iPhone или iPad с iOS 9, вы не сможете разделить удовольствие.

Однако есть способы конвертировать и делиться своими живыми фотографиями, чтобы их могло просматривать большее количество людей. Сегодня мы хотим объяснить, как преобразовать ваши живые фотографии в анимированные GIF-изображения и поделиться ими в Facebook и Instagram.

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Live Photos – это на самом деле короткие (3 секунды) видео, которые отображаются как фотографии в фотопленке, пока вы не нажмете на них, после чего они будут воспроизведены. Самый реалистичный способ поделиться ими – преобразовать их в анимированные GIF.

Чтобы преобразовать ваши живые фотографии в GIF, сначала необходимо извлечь видео или файл MOV и преобразовать его.

Первое, что вам нужно сделать, это подключить iPhone к Mac и открыть приложение Image Capture. Здесь мы отсортировали все по типу «Kind», чтобы мы могли легко найти все файлы MOV.

Изображения и видеофайлы импортируются в выбранную вами папку. По умолчанию это папка с изображениями.

К сожалению, мы не можем сказать, какой файл MOV является каким, поэтому, вероятно, лучше всего импортировать их все на свой Mac, чтобы их было легче разобрать. Обратите внимание: если вы дважды щелкните выделение в Image Capture, оно откроется и импортирует его автоматически.

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Если вы используете компьютер под управлением Windows, то, вероятно, самый простой способ импортировать видеофайлы с iPhone или iPad – это перейти на свое устройство iOS в проводнике.

Чтобы просмотреть внутреннее хранилище на этом устройстве, вам необходимо разрешить компьютеру Windows доступ к нему. После этого вы сможете видеть все, что находится в папке DCIM на вашем устройстве iOS.

Вы не хотите просматривать каждую папку одну за другой и пытаться найти файл MOV, поэтому их проще искать, используя строку поиска «* .mov». Это покажет вам все файлы на вашем устройстве с расширением .mov.

Как только вы найдете нужный файл MOV, вам нужно будет преобразовать его в GIF, поэтому вам нужно будет использовать приложение или веб-сайт для создания GIF по вашему выбору. В следующем разделе мы кратко объясним, как создавать анимированные GIF-файлы с помощью Giphy.com, а затем размещать их в Facebook.

Публикация живых фотографий в виде анимированных файлов GIF на Facebook

Facebook по-прежнему не позволяет размещать анимированные GIF-файлы на временной шкале, поэтому вам придется использовать службу анимированных GIF, например Giphy.

С помощью Giphy вы сможете загрузить файл MOV на сайт, который затем автоматически преобразует его в анимированный GIF.

После преобразования вы можете выбрать, где вы хотите поделиться им. Очевидно, что в этом примере мы хотим поделиться с Facebook.

С другой стороны, если вы хотите сохранить новый анимированный GIF локально на свой компьютер, вы можете щелкнуть вкладку «Дополнительно» и загрузить его.

Когда вы делитесь в Facebook, вы сможете добавить комментарий (при желании), а затем опубликовать его своим друзьям.

Совместное использование анимированного GIF означает, что он будет бесконечно зацикливаться, а не делиться им как видеофайлом (что вы более чем можете сделать), который воспроизводится один раз и останавливается. С другой стороны, возможно, самый простой способ поделиться файлами Live Photo MOV – это опубликовать их в Instagram.

Публикация живых фотографий как видео в Instagram

Поделиться живыми фотографиями в Instagram довольно просто. Поскольку вы уже можете легко обмениваться видео в Instagram, все, что вам нужно сделать, это передать видео Live Photo на свой телефон, а затем поделиться им таким образом.

Первое, что вам нужно сделать, это переместить файл MOV через AirDrop. После того как вы передали файл на свой iPhone, откройте Instagram и выберите видеофайл, которым хотите поделиться.

После того как вы выбрали видеофайл, вы можете применить фильтры и отредактировать его, как обычно.

Обратите внимание: вы можете легко опубликовать свое видео на Facebook из Instagram, если не хотите конвертировать файл MOV в анимированный GIF.

Сейчас делиться живыми фотографиями с широкой аудиторией – это своего рода пустяк, и это может оттолкнуть большинство пользователей от этого, но это возможно.

Надеюсь, что в какой-то момент Apple или сторонний разработчик создадут приложение, которое позволит пользователям легко делиться живыми фотографиями, не прыгая через столько обручей. Также помните, что вам не нужно делиться только через Facebook или Instagram, вы также можете использовать Giphy для публикации в Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr и т. Д.

Мы надеемся, что эта статья оказалась для вас полезной и вы начнете делиться своими Живыми фотографиями любым удобным для вас способом. Если у вас есть какие-либо вопросы или комментарии, которыми вы хотели бы поделиться с нами, оставьте свой отзыв на нашем дискуссионном форуме.

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Today we are going to teach you send a live photo as a GIF on Twitter. A great way to give another life to those moving photos that we have on the reel.

Surely we have several moving photos on the reel. These photos are the calls > and they are a very good option to capture perfect moments. That is, thanks to these photos, we can find the ideal moment in which we take the photograph.

But in this case, we are going to show you the form of power post these photos on Twitter, taking advantage of this moving effect and turning them into a GIF.

How to send a live photo as a GIF on Twitter

What we must do is go to the Twitter app and go to the section to publish a new tweet. Once here, we select the option to upload a photo.

When we are in the menu of our reel, we must look for the photo that we want to upload. We have to bear in mind that for the GIF effect to work, we must select a Live Photo. Therefore, we select said photo.

In doing so, we will see that the square photo appears in the tweet that we are going to publish and an icon in the lower left, in which it gives us the option to mark as >.

Select the image from the reel and then mark the GIF icon

We select it and we will have our photo as a GIF. Now we just have to choose the message we want to publish and, obviously, we publish the tweet.

We will see that this image that we have published has indeed been published as a GIF. In this way, we can publish our Live Photos as we have made them and appear on our reel.

All ya gotta do is upload…

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Twitter is continuing to add functionality, and the latest update brings the ability to upload iOS Live Photos as GIFs to the service.

That’s great news for the millions of iOS users that use the three-second moving pictures, who can now share without having to do any conversion to other formats.

You can now upload iOS Live Photos straight to Twitter

Give the gift of GIFs. You can now upload your iOS Live Photos as GIFs anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.

If you own an iOS device and use Live Photos, here’s how to use them on the social network:

• Open Twitter
• Upload the Live Photo from your camera roll
• The app will recognize the Live Photo and give you a GIF button
• Tapping on the GIF button will turn your Live Photo into a GIF to share
• Profit
• Just… make sure you review the content of the Live Photo before you upload, lest you make a dick out of yourself (NSFW)

Oh, and that image compression everyone complains about? That’s gone too (kinda). The social service will now preserve the quality of all JPEG images uploaded to the site, and only compress the preview shown in your feed. Sweet, I know a ton of photographer friends that are over the moon about this update.

What do you think? Plan on using this new Twitter feature? Let us know down below in the comments or carry the discussion over to our Twitter or Facebook.

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You can now upload LIve Photos to Twitter as GIFs without needing to convert them using another app beforehand.

Twitter has added support for Apple’s Live Photos. Finally. Previously, Live Photos uploaded to Twitter have been displayed as still photographs. However, by pressing one extra button, you can now upload Live Photos to Twitter as GIFs instead.

What Are Apple’s Live Photos?

In 2015, alongside the iPhone 6s, Apple introduced Live Photos. Every iPhone released since then has been able to capture Live Photos. Live Photos are moving pictures, with video and audio captured for 1.5 seconds either side of you pressing the shutter button.

The result is a moving picture similar to those seen in the Harry Potter series. And once you capture Live Photos you have a number of options of what to do with it. Including keeping it as-is, saving it as a still photo, or converting it into a GIF.

How to Upload Live Photos as GIFs on Twitter

The problem with Live Photos is that most platforms don’t support them. So, with the exception of Facebook, which supports Live Photos, you either have to share Live Photos as still images or turn them into GIFs before sharing them outside of the Apple ecosystem.

Twitter hasn’t even offered the option to convert Live Photos into GIFs until now. So, you have either had to convert your Live Photos into GIFs using a dedicated app or just upload them as still images. However, Twitter has now seen the Live Photos light.

It’s now extremely easy to post a Live Photo as a GIF to Twitter. Just open the Twitter app on your iOS device, click the Compose icon, select a photo from your camera roll, then tap the GIF button in the bottom-left corner of your Live Photo. It will then post as a GIF.

How to Capture, Share, and Edit Live Photos

If this has piqued your interest in Live Photos, here’s everything you need to know about Live Photos. This article shows you how to capture, share, and edit Live Photos on your iPhone. And once you’re happy with one you can now upload it to Twitter as a GIF.

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Dave Parrack is a Deputy Editor at MUO. He has 15 years of experience writing and editing for tech publications, and has been with MUO since 2011.

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Q, I love GIFs and someone told me that you can make GIFs from iPhone photos. In fact, he showed me how to do it but later when I tried to do it myself I couldn’t remember how he did it.

Can you do an article on how to do this so I can refer to it when I try to make a GIF on my iPhone again? Thanks!

A. I’m a big fan of GIFs too. Those mini movies without sound can go a lot farther than words or emojis to convey your thoughts.

Apple has made it easy to create GIFs from your iPhone photos, if you know how. In two easy steps you can take a photo and create a GIF from it.

Step 1 Choose a Live Photo

GIFs can easily be made from Live Photos on the iPhone. Live Photos were first introduced by Apple with the iPhone 6s and can be transformed into GIFs. When you take a Live Photo, you’re actually shooting a 3 second video. The iPhone records video from 1.5 seconds before you tap the shutter button to 1.5 seconds after the button is tapped.

The result is a 3 second Live Photo, complete with video and sound. You can see demonstrations of Live Photos at this Apple Live Photo page. Tap or click on the Live button to watch the image move.

You can view your Live Photos in your Photos app on your iPhone. You’ll know if a photo is a Live Photo by seeing “Live” at the top of the screen.

You can make GIFs using Live Photos you’ve taken previously with your iPhone, and you can make GIFs by taking new Live Photos.

How to Find Live Photos in Your Camera Roll

Finding Live Photos on your iPhone that you’ve already taken is super easy. Don’t scroll through your photos to try to find them, unless you like wasting time.

Instead, ask Siri, “Show me my Live Photos.” You don’t even need to have the Photos app open, Siri will do that for you. Boom!

Or you can open the Photos app and search for “Live Photos.” The search results will be the Live Photos stored on your iPhone.

How to Take a Live Photo

But maybe you want to make a GIF from a new Live Photo. Easy peasy.

To take a Live Photo, open the camera app on your iPhone and tap the bulls-eye icon at the top of the screen. The icon will be yellow when you’re taking a Live Photo.

Then take your photo by tapping the shutter button. That’s it. You’re done with taking a Live Photo. Oh yeah.

=> You may want to turn Live Photos off after you’re done taking the photo for your GIF. Tap the Live Photo bulls-eye icon again to turn off Live Photos.

Step 2 – Turn Your Live Photo Into a GIF

Now that you’ve chosen your Live Photo, you can turn it into a GIF in one step.

Open the Live Photo you want to make into a GIF. Swipe up from the bottom of the photo.

You’ll see choices of Loop, Bounce and Long Exposure. Loop and Bounce are your choices for GIFs.

Loop plays the 3 second Live Photo in an endless loop and eliminates the sound, turning the Live Photo into a GIF.

Bounce plays the Live Photo forward then backward in an endless loop. For example, with Bounce a person performing a dive into a swimming pool would look like they are diving into the pool, then reverse, launching out of the pool.

Choose either Loop or Bounce and you have a GIF! Below is a GIF made from a Live Photo with Loop.

Video Demonstration

This video shows how to make a GIF from a Live Photo in the Photos app on your iPhone:

Sharing Your GIF

Sharing is caring. You can share your GIF from within the Photos app by tapping the sharing icon, then choosing the way you share it. Share it in an email, text message or on social media.

When you share your GIF, it should appear as a GIF file, with a .gif extension at the end of the file name. But when I transferred the GIF to my computer using AirDrop, it arrived as a movie file with a .mov extension. Use email or text message to send your GIF if having a GIF file format is important to you.

Your Thoughts

Do you like GIFs? Have you ever made a GIF? Are you going to try making a GIF with your Live Photos?

Share your thoughts in the Comments section below!

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It’s been more than four years since Apple debuted Live Photos with the release of the iPhone 6s, and it looks like Twitter is finally getting with the program to allow iPhone users to share their creations on the social media network.

The move comes as part of a pretty big update to how Twitter handles photo uploads in general, suggesting that they may be overhauling and modernizing whatever systems are used to process photos on the back end.

According to an official tweet, iPhone users will now be able to upload Live Photos anywhere on Twitter that they can upload normal photos with the option of converting them to animated GIFs (which is fair since one can’t really expect Twitter to adopt Apple’s special way of handling Live Photos).

Give the gift of GIFs. You can now upload your iOS Live Photos as GIFs anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.

Still, Twitter is unbelievably late to the game here when you consider that it took Facebook and Tumblr only about three months to introduce support for Live Photos on their social media platforms.

After all, the technology of converting a short video clip to an animated GIF is hardly rocket science. Google also added support into its Google Photos app soon after, and later even began offering the ability to convert Live Photos to GIFs in its own Motion Stills app in 2016, offering a handy workaround for those who wanted to share Live Photos to services like Instagram.

Further, in 2017 Apple introduced its own official JavaScript code that could be used to enable support for Live Photos on any website, offering a really easy solution to those that hadn’t yet embraced the format.

How It Works

You’ll have to use the official Twitter app on your iPhone in order to upload Live Photos, but it’s otherwise pretty straightforward. While Live Photos will upload as stills by default, you’ll now be able to tap the “GIF” button in the bottom-left corner in order to turn your Live Photo into a GIF.

Like other GIFs, you won’t be able to apply filters or other effects to Live Photos, nor will you be able to tag people in them, but otherwise the process of sharing a Live Photo on Twitter should be pretty seamless.

Higher Quality Photos Too

In addition to support for Live Photos, Twitter also announced that it will no longer recompress JPEG files that you upload and share on its service, thereby preserving their original JPEG encoding and quality.

Starting today, Twitter will preserve JPEGs as they are encoded for upload on Twitter for Web. (Caveat, cannot have EXIF orientation)

For example: the attached photo is actually a guetzli encoded JPEG at 97% quality with no chroma subsampling.

While most casual Twitter users aren’t likely to care, the prior insistence on transcoding images into lower-quality pictures understandably annoyed many serious photographers and artists who wanted to share their creations on Twitter.

With this change, Twitter will now preserve the original quality of any picture that’s below 8 megapixels in size, and in some cases even up to 16 megapixels, depending on aspect ratio. EXIF data and other metadata will still be stripped and discarded for privacy reasons, but this doesn’t affect the image quality.

That said, there are are a couple of caveats here. Firstly, the full-quality uploading is not (yet?) available from the mobile apps or even Twitter for Mac, so you’ll have to upload them directly via Twitter on the web. Further, thumbnails and previews will also still be transcoded, which makes sense since they have to be presented in a lower resolution anyway, so users will have to click through on photos in the Twitter timeline to see the full-quality image. Still, it’s a welcome change and may herald more photo improvements to come to Twitter’s media handling, which has apparently undergone some major improvements overall in 2019.

Don’t know how to send live photos on iPhone/iPad in iOS 13/12/11? This guide will show you the detailed steps to send live photos as GIFs on your iPhone/iPad and also share you how to send live photos on WhatsApp.

iPhone Photos Tips

Export Photos from iPhone

• Export iPhone Photos to PC
• Export iPhone Photos to Flash Drive
• Export iPhone Photos to SD Card
• Export iPhone Photos to iCloud
• Transfer iPhone Photos to iPad

Import Photos to iPhone

• Import Photos from PC to iPhone
• Import Photos from Flash Drive to iPhone
• Import Photos from SD Card to iPhone
• Import Photos from Camera to iPhone

Fix iPhone Photos Problems

• Photos Not Syncing to New iPhone
• Photos Not Syncing to iCloud
• Photos Unable to Share
• Photos Not Showing Up in iPhoto
• Photos Not Showing Up in PC/Mac
• Photos Not Loading on iPhone
• Photos Not Found on iPhone

Other iPhone Photos Tips

• AirDrop Photos Location
• Convert HEIC Photos to JPGs
• Send Live Photos as GIFs

Live Photo is an awesome feature that Apple released along with the iPhone 6S running iOS 9. However,В these live photos are only available toВ enjoy on the iPhone/iPad. If you want to export those live photos to computer or share them with your friends in their original form, you have to turn them into GIFs via a third-party app, or it will become a normal photo.

Starting from iOS 11, Apple usersВ can turn shots into GIF with minimal trouble, sending live photos as GIFs on iPhone will no longer be a hard task. And here in this guide, we will not only show you how to send live photos as GIFs on iPhone/iPad but also offer youВ the detailed steps to send live photos on WhatsApp.

• Part 1. How to Send Live Photos as GIFs in iOS 13/12/11
• Part 2. How to Send Live Photos on WhatsApp
• Part 3. Turn Multiple Live Photos into GIFs/Videos at Once

Part 1. How to Send Live Photos as GIFs on iPhone/iPad in iOS 13/12/11

Step 1. Turn live photos into GIFs

Open Photos app on your iPhone/iPad > Tap Albums and choose the Live Photos album > Select the live photo you would like to turn into GIF and choose one effort you prefer: Live, Loop, Bounce and Long Exposure.

Turn Live Photos into GIFs

Step 2. Send live photos as GIFs

Tap Share button > Select one supported app like Mail, Messages, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. to send your live photos as GIFs.

Send Live Photos as GIFs

Part 2. How to Send Live Photos on WhatsApp

If you didn’t update your device to iOS 11/11.1/11.2/11.3 and stuck on iOS 10/9, you can still be able to send live photos as GIFs via WhatsApp. Simply following the steps below to see how to send live photos as GIFs with WhatsApp.

Step 1: Open WhatsApp on your device > Tap on Contacts and choose the one you want to share live photos.

Step 2: Start the chat and tap on the “+” icon from the bottom left corner of phone screen > Choose Photo & Video Library option to enter in Photo Library.

Step 3: 3D Touch on the live photo you want to share, and then swipe up > Choose Select as GIF to share the live photo to your friend.

Part 3. How to Turn Multiple Live Photos into GIFs/Videos at Once

Apple allows users to turn only one group of live photos into GIFs at a time. It can be a hard work to turn numbers of live photos into GIFs one by one – but not with AnyTrans. It enables you to turn multiple or all live photos into GIFs and videos at once. All you need to do is select the live photos you want to convert to GIFs/videos. Compatible with iPhone 12/11/XS/XR/X/8/7/6S/SE and iOS 14/13/12/11/10/9.

Step 1:В Free Download AnyTrans and install it on your computer > Run it > Connect your iPhone to the computer via a USB cable > Choose the “Device Manager” mode > Click on “Photos” option.

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Turn Multiple Live Photos into GIFs/Videos at Once – Step 1

Step 2: Move to Live Photos and click on the В В button В to set GIF as the export format for live photos > Check the one format you prefer > Click on Save button to continue.

Turn Multiple Live Photos into GIFs/Videos at Once – Step 2

Step 3: Select the live photos you want to convert > Click on Send to Computer button to export the selected photos into GIFs to your computer.

Turn Multiple Live Photos into GIFs/Videos at Once – Step 3

Step 4. After the process is completed, you can check them on your computer.

How to Turn Multiple Live Photos into GIFs at Once – Step 4

If you want to convert HEIC format to GIFs, iMobie HEIC Converter, as a hassle-free HEIC covert tool, would be the best choice you need. You can use it to convert HEIC photos to Gifs format in a few clicks. BTW,В it also supports view HEIC files on Android.

The Bottom Line

You may have succeeded in sending live photos as GIFs to your friends with above-detailed tutorial. If you have any trouble with turning live photos into GIFs or sending live photos as GIFs on iPhone/iPad/WhatsApp, feel free to leave your comment below and we will reply to you soon.

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Make your photos move — no magic required. Learn how to turn live pictures from your iPhone or iPad into short videos with this tutorial.

What are Live Photos?

Introduced in 2015 with the iPhone 6S, Live Photos are animated pictures, similar to GIFs. If the Live Photos setting is enabled on your iPad or iPhone camera, it will combine several still images to create three seconds of motion. However, when uploaded to other devices, they revert to a static image, unless converted prior to sending. With the arrival of iOS 13, you can now convert Live Photos into shareable short videos, complete with sound and movement.

How to convert a Live Photo into video.

There are a few ways to transform the live pictures in your camera roll into video files without watermarks. You can either use native iOS tools found directly on your hardware or on apps like Adobe Premiere Pro.

Save Live Photos as videos on an iPhone or iPad (with iOS 13 or later):

1. Tap on the Photos app to open it.

2. Select a Live Photo you want to convert. (All the Live Photos you’ve taken are automatically grouped in an album.)

3. Tap the Share button on the bottom left corner.

4. Scroll down and choose Save as Video.

Afterward, you will see a new video of your Live Photo in your Recents album. No need to worry about the conversion process. The video is a copy that retains the quality of the original photo, and the source image will remain unchanged.

Bounce back and forth or close the loop.

Even if your software isn’t up to date, as long as your mobile device has iOS 11, you can still change live pictures to video. This method has one critical difference — you transform your images into a clip. Open the image you want to convert in the iOS Photos app. Then swipe up on the photo to access the Effects menu. Two effects in particular, Bounce and Loop, will animate your capture. You can also convert the Live Photo to a video clip in the Share menu. Just click the share icon and scroll down to the Save as Video option.

Loop repeatedly plays the animation of your photo for a set period. Bounce, on the other hand, plays the clip forward and backward continuously, similar to a Boomerang video on Instagram. Once you choose your effects and save your video file, you can find it in the Animation folder in the Photos app. If you previously did not have animated content, the folder will be automatically created when you save the clip.

Let Adobe put motion in your pictures.

You can also transform Live Photos with Adobe Premiere Pro on your desktop. This gives you the power to refine and polish your freshly minted footage and combine it with other video you might have. Whether it’s live images of people walking in a crowded city, rolling waves on the beach, other B-roll–style clips, or a short clip of your subject, you can add Live Photo videos to longer video projects. First, export your live images. If you use a Mac, don’t use Airdrop to transfer them over, as you’ll only get the static image files of your photos. Instead:

1. Open your iCloud Photos on the computer. Access iCloud through the Photos app on a Mac or download iCloud Photos for Windows via Apple’s support site or iCloud.com.

2. Select the live pictures you want to bring into Premiere Pro. You’ll see two files for each Live Photo you transfer, one image (.HEIC) and one video file (.MOV).

3. Hold the Option key down, then drag and drop to a new Finder window to save them to your desktop.

4. Open Premiere Pro, and drag and drop your clips into it. From there, the fun begins.

Splice in other footage you may have — like videos from a recent trip — to create a cohesive narrative. Add dazzling effects, filters, and colors that help bring your image to life. Keep in mind that the frame rate for these clips will vary depending on how much lighting is present, so you may need to adjust playback speeds in post-production for visual consistency if you plan to use your Live Photos in a video clip.

Since the aspect ratio for Live Photos is different from normal videos (4:3 instead of 16:9), Auto Reframe will resize your video in whatever format you want to share it in, from 4K to square. Then you’ll have action-packed clips perfect for posting on any social media channel.

You can make your own GIFs from the photos and videos on your phone. And you may not even need extra software to do so. Here’s a guide.

Online “visual” reactions have come a long way since the first sideways smiley-face emoticon appeared four decades ago. Animated GIFs — those files showing a few seconds of choppy motion, like the one of Kermit the Frog flailing his arms excitedly — are ubiquitous in text messages, online forums and chat apps, thanks to the internet’s meme culture.

But animated GIFs don’t have to come from the internet. You can make your own GIFs from the photos and videos on your phone. And you may not even need extra software to do so. Here’s a guide.

A Bit About GIFs
While they resemble short video clips, animated GIFs have technical differences from videos. Both file types use a series of images to display motion, but GIFs don’t include audio, hence the captions you see on some of them. And the traditional GIF format (which dates to 1987) supports only 256 colors, which are far fewer than many modern video formats — and even newer competing image formats like AV1, also known as AVIF.

Most GIFs are a few seconds long, play automatically on a loop and have joined emojis as versatile ways to express yourself online.

And GIFs are image files, which can make them easy to share in mail and messages. Some message and keyboard apps even include a GIF library for quick access in your conversations.

(What is less clear about GIFs is how you pronounce the acronym. Like the peanut butter brand, or like “gift” without the t? The choice is fraught.)

Create a GIF With iOS
Third-party programs are plentiful, but before you head to the App Store, you may be able to whip up a GIF with programs already on your iPhone or iPad. For example, if you’ve captured a worthy shot with Apple’s Live Photos feature (which records the action 1.5 seconds before and after the picture) you can add effects and save it as an animated GIF.

Just go to the Photos app, open an image from the Live Photos album and tap the gray Live icon in the upper-left corner to add an effect like Loop or Bounce. To convert the live photo to a GIF, open the iOS Shortcuts app for automating actions, or get it from the App Store if you don’t have it already. Search the Shortcuts Gallery for the Make GIF shortcut and add it. Tap the Make GIF icon and select your live photo to convert.

The Shortcuts Gallery also holds a Convert Burst to GIF automation that you can use to transform a series of photos taken in burst mode and another, called Video to GIF, that converts video clips.

Create a GIF With Android
Options for making animated GIFs from photos on an Android-based phone can vary based on the hardware, software and carrier in the mix. Those with certain Samsung Galaxy phones may be able to use the GIF-making features for photos and videos in the free Gallery app.

If you use Google Photos on Android (or iOS), you can make an animated GIF from a selection of your pictures. Just tap Library, then Utilities and Create New. Choose Animation, select the photos and tap Create.

The burstlike “motion photos” captured on some Google Pixel phones can be converted into animated GIFs right on the device or with a third-party app. (Many Samsung Galaxy phones have a similar “motion photo” feature.)

For example, to make an animated GIF on a Google Pixel 4 XL, open Google Photos and select an image saved as a motion photo, or use the search tool to look for “motion photos.” (The Camera app’s settings need to have the Top Shot or motion setting enabled.) When you find a motion photo you want to use, select it and swipe up or tap the three-dot More menu in the top-right corner of the screen. Next, swipe along the row of icons to Export. Tap Export and select the GIF option to save the new file to your photo library.

Use a Dedicated GIF App
The free tools that came with your phone can quickly create a simple GIF, but if you want to add text, have more control over looping or even browse GIF archives for ideas, visit your app store. Many GIF-creation apps are available, and the free Giphy software for Android and iOS is one of the best known. Giphy also has a huge archive of animated GIFs, its own GIF-making tutorial and a best practices guide.

If you find Giphy overwhelming, you have plenty of other choices. Many apps are ad-supported but charge a few dollars to ditch the advertisements. They include ImgPlay (for Android and iOS; $8 or less); Video to GIF (iOS; $2) and GIF Maker GIF Editor Pro (Android; $3). You can even make a GIF out of a selfie clip for a truly personal reaction shot — or just have fun with relatable animal behavior.

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In another update to how Twitter handles photos, the company today shared the news that users can upload Live Photos from iPhone or iPad and they will show as GIFs on the social media platform.

Earlier today we learned that Twitter for web now preserves JPEG quality and now the company has shared in a tweet that it supports iOS’ Live Photos.

Notably, while the JPEG quality retention change is just on Twitter for web for the time being, uploading Live Photos will work from “anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.”

Twitter included a dramatic and silly video to introduce the Live Photos functionality, which comes four years after Apple debuted the feature. Check it out below.

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(Pocket-lint) – Apple introduced Live Photos way back in 2015, but the feature has come along way since it first arrived. Rather than just have the one standard effect, there are now a few different effects you can make use of in Apple’s Photos app. They’re called: Loop, Bounce and Long Exposure.

Here’s how to use the Loop, Bounce and Long Exposure Live Photo effects and how to share them.

What is a Live Photo?

Live Photos was originally designed as a way to ensure that you don’t miss the perfect shot when you snap a photo on your iPhone. It does this by capturing a few frames of video before and after you press the shutter button. Once done, it selects the one image from that collection of frames that it thinks is the best.

Live Photos still operates this way, but in 2017 Apple added a few new video/photo effects and transitions to make more use of the technology. It’s remained the same since then.

How to take a Live Photo

In your iPhone camera app, make sure the Live Photo capture option is enabled. This looks like a set of diffused rings in the camera toolbar at the top of your display when you’re in the Photo mode. When it’s not activated, it’s got a diagonal line through it, but that disappears when you switch it on.

Once that’s activated, all you have to do is take a photo by pressing the shutter button, or by clicking one of the volume buttons on your phone.

Note: Live Photos don’t work in any of the other modes so if you are taking a picture in Square mode, you won’t have the option of Live Photos.

How do you create Loop, Bounce and Long Exposure effects?

After taking your Live Photo, head to your Photos gallery and choose the photo you want to add the effect to. Swipe upwards on the photo (not the bottom of your display) and you’ll reveal an interface underneath the photo.

You’ll find the Live Photos effects at the top of this area, with thumbnail previews of what the animation will look like below the main image.

Each effect does what its name suggests it will. Loop essentially plays the video, then repeats it with a brief cross dissolve style transition between when it ends and when it begins again.

Bounce is similar to Boomerang – a feature made popular in Instagram’s Stories. It plays the short video, then immediately reverses it.

Long Exposure is cheating, pure and simple; but it works, and is certainly easier than trying to create a manual long exposure shot using a tripod and a manual camera app. It combines the frames of the video into one, blurred image. It’s great for waterfalls, seas and rivers – or any moving water for that matter.

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How do I share Live Photos on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter?

Some social networks do support sharing these new Live Photos, but there is one thing worth noting: they technically save as videos. And, depending on how long the video is when it’s saved, the number of apps you can use to share could be limited.

The best way to see which apps support them is opening the Live Photo you want to share, hit the Share icon – square with the arrow pointing upwards, and see which services show up in there.

As an example, Instagram videos need to be three seconds in length, or longer, so you can’t share the Loop effect ones, since those tend to be only a second or so. Bounce effects can be shared, since most of those will be exactly three seconds long. Long Exposure photos just save as photos, and can be shared as such. Facebook meanwhile, will allow you to share Loops, Bounces and Long Exposures freely.

To share to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or any other social media platform: Tap on the Share icon in the bottom left of the screen when on the photo you want to share > Scroll across to the platform you want to share and follow the steps.

One handy tip: If you’re happy just sharing a still key image from your Live Photo – you can create a duplicate before changing the Live Photo effect style. Just hit the Share menu on your original photo, scroll right to left on the bottom bar until you reach “Duplicate”, and then select “Duplicate as Still Photo”. Now you’ll have one photo you can share on any social network, and one that you can use to create Live Photo effects with.

The Share menu also gives the option to share the Live Photo via AirDrop, or using iMessage, Email, Shared Albums, WhatsApp, Google Drive or any other compatible apps or services. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, head to ‘More’ on the far right of the Share Menu list and toggle on the app you want to share your photo to.

Previously, if you wanted to tweet animations on your iPhone or iPad to Twitter, you need to convert them into GIFs. This is now a thing of the past.

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Previously, if you wanted to tweet animations on your iPhone or iPad to Twitter, you need to convert them into GIFs. Now that it’s a thing of the past, you can easily upload animations without having to go through any tools.

So how to do it? Invite you to follow the article below of TipsMake.com to find the answer!

Step 1: Take a Live Photo animation on iPhone, iPad

Before you tweet a Live Photo, you’ll need to turn on the Live Photo feature in the iPhone or iPad’s camera app and then take a picture.

Start by opening the Camera app.

Open Camera app on iPhone, iPad

Next, make sure that the screen displays the Live icon and is not crossed out. If crossed out, tap the icon immediately to reactivate then capture the animation you need to tweet.

Take a Live Photo animation to post to Twitter

Step 2: Tweet Live Photo in GIF format

After you have taken the Live Photo, start tweeting it.

First, open the Twitter application.

Open the Twitter app on iPhone and iPad

From the Home tab, touch the edit button. Its symbol is in the lower right corner and there is a feather wrapped in a blue circle.

Open the new tweet editor interface

Next, choose your Live Photo in the Photo Library. You will see the Live icon at the corner of the thumbnail in the album.

Select Live Photo in Gallery to post to Twitter

When your animation is loaded into the preview draft shown on the screen, click the GIF button in the lower left corner of the thumbnail, Live Photo will automatically convert into GIF. Click the Play button to review the converted GIF.

Live Photo will automatically convert to GIF

The final step is to write a status with the picture, then click on Tweet to post the content with GIF just created on Twitter.

Post the content with the newly created GIF to Twitter

Simple as that, you try to see offline. Good luck!

Twitter is home to some of the most trending GIFs on the Internet. Yet, unfortunately, you can’t download a GIF directly from Twitter. In fact, in order to download or save a GIF from Twitter on your phone (Android or iPhone), you might need an app! Hence, we’ve put together this post where we cover:

Without further ado, let’s dive in!

1. How to save a GIF from Twitter on an iPhone?

In order to download or save a GIF from Twitter to your iPhone, you’ll need to download a 3rd party app. We recommend GIFwrapped . Here’s the step-by-step process on how you can save a GIF from Twitter on your iPhone:

Step 1 : Open the Twitter app and go to the Tweet you want to save your GIF from. Tap the “Share” icon, then “Copy Link”.

Note : Make sure to install the GIFwrapped app to your iPhone before you follow these steps.

Step 2 : Launch the app and tap on the search tab. Paste the Tweet URL into the search bar and press “Search” on your keyboard.

Step 3 : You’ll now see the GIF from your tweet in the GIFwrapped gallery on your screen. Tap the GIF you wish to download. Next, tap on the “Share” icon at the bottom left of your screen. Now tap the “Save to Library” option from the pop-up menu. Finally, select the “Save to Library” or “Save to Photos” options to save your GIF.

2. How to save a GIF from Twitter on Android?

Just like with an iPhone, you’ll need a 3rd party app to download and save GIFs from Twitter to your android phone. We recommend downloading the Tweet2GIF app at the outset.

Once you install the Tweet2GIF app on your android phone, follow this step-by-step guide.

Step 1 : Go to the Tweet that contains the GIF you want to save and tap the share button (it looks like three connected dots).

Step 2 : Now select the “Share Via” option.

Step 3 : In the menu, scroll down and select “Tweet2gif.”

Step 4 : Finally tap the “Download GIF” option. Your GIF might take some seconds to render. Once done, it will automatically be saved to your device.

Check out this guide on how to create and upload fun, scroll stopping GIFs to your Facebook profile or business page.

3. How to save a GIF from Twitter on a Mac/ Windows Desktop?

The easiest way to go about downloading and saving Twitter GIFs is using a web downloader. With a web downloader all you have to do is copy the link to the tweet and paste it into the website. Let’s see how this can be done step-by-step using the Twitter Video Downloader online.

Step 1: Go to the tweet which contains the GIF you want to download. Click on the “Share” icon at the bottom of the tweet and select the “Copy link to Tweet” option.

Step 2 : Now open the Twitter Video Downloader website in a new tab. Paste the link you copied from Twitter in the search bar and click the “Download” button.

Step 3 : Next click on the “Download video” button.

Step 4 : You’ll now see your GIF on the page. Click on the three dots at the right corner of your GIF and select the “Download” option to save the GIF to your laptop or desktop.

Wrapping Up

So these were the various ways to download and save a GIF from Twitter. Don’t forget to credit the creator in case you are reusing a GIF!

If you found this post useful, you’d definitely want to check out this guide on creating your own GIFs with a list of 10 free GIF makers and how to use them! If you have any questions or want to continue the conversation, hop over to the InVideo community and learn from 25K other marketers and video creators just like you!

This post was written by Upasna and edited by Abhilash from Team InVideo

On one hand, Twitter may be looking to build a decentralized social media standard but on the other, it continues to add some helpful features to the platform. The latest feature will make your Live Photos captured via an iPhone or iPad (basically, an iOS device) a lot more useful and likable.

Live Photos is one of the fun standout camera features on iOS devices. For those unaware, it not only stores a still image while clicking a photo but also a short 3-second video along with it. You could use third-party apps to convert the video into a GIF and share it online, but you no longer need to do that as Twitter is now introducing the option to tweet your Live Photos as GIFs across the platform. You can add the Live Photos as GIFs to tweets, retweets with comment, replies, and even DMs.

Twitter hyped up the launch of this feature with a dramatic minute-long video, which you can check out right here:

Give the gift of GIFs. You can now upload your iOS Live Photos as GIFs anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.

If you want to try out the feature, just start writing out a new tweet and select the live photo you want to include in it from the gallery option. Now when you pick a live photo, Twitter will show a GIF button over the picture – at the bottom. Tap the GIF button and you’re done. Your live photo will now be tweeted as a GIF. Super fun, right?

Twitter Preserves JPEG Image Quality As Well

Uploading Live Photos as GIFs is a feature restricted to iOS users, but there’s another important feature update that’s available for all. And it’s a blessing for photographers.

As seen in the tweet below, Twitter is now going to preserve the image quality of JPEGs uploaded to the platform. The compression earlier degraded the quality quite a lot, but your photos will now be crystal clear. There’s a caveat to this feature though.

The image preview (thumbnails) in the timeline will still be compressed and low-quality. You have to open the image to see the uncompressed version, which is understandable. Plus, you can see below that only photos uploaded using Twitter for Web will follow this new compression.

Starting today, Twitter will preserve JPEGs as they are encoded for upload on Twitter for Web. (Caveat, cannot have EXIF orientation)

For example: the attached photo is actually a guetzli encoded JPEG at 97% quality with no chroma subsampling.

Twitter gives photographers another platform to highlight their art but without the awful compression that kills the essence of the pictures. So, who’s ready to upload a lot more pictures? Let us know your thoughts on these features in the comments below.

Want to know how to make GIFs from live pictures? We’ll show you how to create a GIF two different ways.

You can make a GIF or video from a Live Photo directly from the Apple Photos app on your iPhone or iPad. Before iOS 11, you couldn’t make Live Photos into GIFs or videos straight from the Photos app. Now, there are three video and GIF options on the iPhone: Loop, Bounce, and Long Exposure. You can also use a third-party app to turn your Live Photo into a video or GIF. Let’s learn how to make a GIF with the Apple Photos app or the Lively app.

How to Make a GIF or Video from a Live Photo on Your iPhone

We’ve already told you how to make Live Photo wallpaper or GIF wallpaper for your iPhone; now, we’re going to cover how to turn Live Photos into a video or GIF with Lively or the Photos app. For more tips about how to use your iPhone and other Apple devices, check out our free Tip of the Day.

How to Turn a Live Photo into a Video or GIF on an iPhone (with the Lively App)

If you’ve been wondering how to make a GIF or video from a Live Photo, there’s an app for that! Let’s get started using the Lively app to convert a Live Photo to video or GIF format. Using an app is also particularly helpful if you want to share your Live Photo on Instagram; because, in order to do so, it must be turned into a video.

1. Open the App Store on your iPhone and download the free app, Lively .
2. Open the app and tap (I’ve tried selecting photos, but it makes the app glitch).