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Live Photos, a feature from Apple, have been getting a lot of attention lately. With Live Photos, you can make simple photos in your Photos library a lot more fun. You can have more fun by posting those View Live Photos in Messages your iPhone to Facebook. But this feature is only available on iPhones and iPads that run iOS.
People also like to turn their iPhone Live Photos into GIFs. But can their Live Photos be seen in Messages for Mac? By doing a few simple things, you can now see Live Photos in Messages for Mac. Make sure your Mac is running OS X 10.11.4 or a later version before you continue.
OS X didn’t work with the feature in older versions of Messages. Also, how would you get Live Photos in Messages on your Mac? Easy, just have someone send your Live Photos while you look at this website.
How to View Live Photos in Messages
- In the Mac Messages app, open the message where the sender has sent you a Live Photo, the Live Photo can be indicated by the little icon in the upper left corner of the image
- Double-click on the Live Photo within Messages app to open a preview window of the picture, the live video portion will immediately play
- Re-play the Live Photo by clicking the little “Live” button in the lower left corner of the preview image
How Do Live Photos Work?
Live Photos work with a feature in the background that many iPhone users don’t know about. When you open the iPhone’s Camera app, even if you don’t tap the shutter button, the app will start taking pictures. This makes it possible for the phone to take pictures as fast as possible. If the user doesn’t need those photos, they are deleted automatically and the user never knows about it.
When you take a Live Photo, the iPhone doesn’t just take a picture. Instead, it takes a picture and keeps the pictures it’s been taking in the background. Then, it saves photos from before and after the photo you just took. By doing this, it can combine all of these photos into a Live Photo, which is a smooth animation that lasts about 1.5 seconds.
When the iPhone saves a photo, it also saves the sound from the last few seconds so that it can add a soundtrack to the Live Photo. It’s not quite a video—it’s more like stop-motion animation—and the resolution isn’t the best, but it’s fun and useful.
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You can also share Live Photo content through a text message or iMessage. What can you share? First, you can share a Live Photo video in a text message or iMessage. You can also send a Loop or Bounce video via iMessage to an iPhone or iPad user.
You can share Live Photos to another iPhone or iPad as long as it’s running iOS 9 or later. You can use iMessage, AirDrop, or iCloud Photo Sharing. To share a Live Photo, open it in the Photos app, then tap the Share icon.
Here’s how to turn a video into a Live Photo on both iPhone and Android. Quick tip: Live Photos are technically an iPhone-exclusive feature. On an Android phone, the Live Photos (also called Live Wallpapers) you make can only be set as your wallpaper; they can’t be shared or viewed in your Photos app like on an iPhone.