Yeah “Live photo” really is just an Apple marketing term. You interact with them in a certain way on iOS and they are presented in a certain way, but anywhere else they’re just very short videos.
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KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months agoNo, these are literally just short videos. You interact with them like photos, you see them as photos, half the time people sending them think they are photos, but when you tap all the way into them they are a short video. They are absolutely not presented as a “choose your exact frame” pre-photo things, they are presented as photos.
DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 6 months ago
locuester@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Wrong. Pretty crazy, it does let you change which frame is the photo. Click edit, then hit the Live Photo icon next to “cancel”
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
That isnt the point of a Live Photo, that’s just a “feature.” Similar to how YouTube lets you choose a thumbnail for a video, but that’s not really the point of YouTube.
locuester@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Per Apple support:
So it’s actually the first example of what Live Photo is for.
If you didn’t even know about this, don’t feel bad. I’m an Apple fanboy and my daughter just showed me that it allowed you to do this “different key photo” last month. Kids are good for that.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I’m aware that’s it’s possible, but that isn’t part of the onboarding or anything. What I mean is, it’s an addon. It was never part of the original iteration, which was just “look moving Harry Potter photos.”
It’s a gimmick that doesn’t even work cross device, because it’s literally just a short video.