iOS: How to turn Live Photos into GIFs without Google
While we wait for Apple to bake GIF creation tools inside Photos, Google’s grabbing attention with the iOS 9 Motion Stills app, which turns Live Photos captured on an iPhone into GIFs or .MOV clips, but there other ways you can make this happen.
Use a Mac
Sure, we know the future of computing is mobile and it may seem like overkill to use a Mac to do something so simple, but you can easily turn a Live Photo into a GIF manually. You see, a Live Photo consists of two elements: a 12MP JPEG still image and a 3-second .MOV video file – you can’t see both files in Photos, but they do exist. In order to build a GIF, you’ll first need to extract the .MOV file from the image.
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