How to Send Live Photos on iPhone and iPad

Can live Photos be sent?

I have an iPhone 15 on iOS 17 with a lot of Live Photos. I want to share Live Photos with another new iPhone. Can I send Live Photos? How to send Live Photos?

- Question from Apple Community

When you take a Live Photo (aka photos-as-moving-picture), your iPhone will record what happens 1.5 seconds before and after the still and it behaves like an animated image. A sound can be attached while taking such a picture. How to take a Live Photo? The following is a how-to guide:

1. Open the Camera app on your iPhone.

2. Set your Camera to PHOTO mode and make sure that Live Photos is turned on. When you turn it on, the white icon in the right corner has no line through it.

3. Tap the shutter button.

How to Send Live Photos on iPhone and iPad

After you finish capturing an animated photo, you can use the following method to share live photos on iPhone and iPad.

Section 1. Send a Live Photo to Another iPhone or iPad

Can you send Live Photos to other phones? With AOMEI FoneBackup, a professional yet free iPhone transfer and backup tool, you can easily complete photo transfers. This utility allows you to send a large or even unlimited amount of photos from iPhone to iPhone, iPad, and computer.

The transfer speed of this tool is very fast. For example, 10GB of photos can take less than ten minutes to get transferred. In addition to photos, it also supports transferring videos from iPhone to iPad, as do messages, contacts, and other files.

The wide compatibility of AOMEI FoneBackup makes it easy to perform file sharing on various iPhones from iPhone 4 to the latest iPhone 16, iPad, and iPod. Download AOMEI FoneBackup for free and follow the steps below to learn how to send live pictures on iPhone.

1. Run AOMEI FoneBackup and connect iPhone to computer. Then, trust this computer on your iPhone.

2. Tap on Phone Transfer > iPhone to PC on the main interface.

3. Choose the Photos tab and select Live Photos to transfer. And click OK.

4. Click on the Start Transfer button to save photos on your PC.

5. Unplug your iPhone and plug in another iPhone or iPad, and click on PC to iPhone.

6. Navigate to the photos you want to transfer. Then, click Start Transfer.

Section 2. Share Live Photos as GIFs via iMessage

iMessage is an instant messaging service that supports sending text messages, images, videos, documents, and many other types of files. In addition to Live Photos, you can also use iMessage to send Loop or Bounce Live Photos to other people.

However, many users have fed back that Live Photos sent through the iPhone Photos app are transformed into still images. By learning how to send a Live Photo as a GIF on iPhone, you can solve this problem easily:

1. Open the photos application on your device, go to Album, and find a picture album/folder named Live Pictures.

2. Select the Live Photos you want to convert into GIFs and pick choose one photo effort you prefer among Live, Loop, Bounce, and Long Exposure.

3. The newly edited Live Photos will be saved to a new album called Animated.

4. Tap the Share button in the lower left corner and select iMessage to share Live Photos as GIFs on iPhone/iPad.

Note: iMessage only supports sending animated pictures to iPhone or iPad users.

Section 3. Send Live Photos as GIFs on WhatsApp

WhatsApp is now the most popular messaging application in the social media world. Everyone is talking and sharing their stories on WhatsApp. Given that, we will show you how to send Live Photos on WhatsApp:

1. Launch WhatsApp on your device and tap on Contacts to select someone to send Live Photos.

2. Click on the + icon on the bottom left corner of the screen and choose the Photo/Video Library option.

3. Tap on the Live Photo you want to share, swipe them up, and select Select as GIF to share photos animatedly.

Section 2. How to Send Live Photos as Video

Apart from sharing live photos directly, iOS offers a feature to save Live Photos as videos. It enables you to convert one or multiple live pictures to a video and share them with anyone on your phone. Here is how to send someone a Live Photo as a video:

1. Open the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad, tap on Album, and head to the Live Photos album.

2. Select the targeted live photo(s) and tap on the Share position in the bottom left corner.

3. Scroll down and select Save as Video.

Then, you can locate the new video in the Recents album.

Conclusion

This article provides you with how to send Live Photos to help you share pictures on iPhone or iPad without a hitch.

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