How to Change the Key Photo of Live Photos on iPhone and iPad

How to Change the Key Photo of Live Photos on iPhone and iPad

Live Photos are the fun animated images captured by modern iPhone and iPad cameras. Essentially each Live Photo is a still image attached to a short movie clip, and much like movie clips there is a key image that can be set to represent the picture as a thumbnail. Changing that key photo can be desirable if the Live Photo thumbnail preview doesnt really capture the image well, and you can instead scrub around in the Live Photo for a thumbnail that better represents the image. This tutorial will show you how to change and set a Live Photo key photo in iOS. You will need a device that supports Live Photo and an actual Live Photo to do this, you can or iPad camera if you havent done so before, and then use that for testing this out yourself if desired. Of course youd need to before such an image is captured. Now anytime youre browsing the thumbnail view of Live Photos in the Photos app, or if you share the Live Photos, the newly set Key Photo will be the default. Live Photo is a neat feature with a lot of tricks up its sleeve. One of the more interesting capabilities recently added is the ability to . And dont forget you can always if you later decide the animated picture isnt what youre looking for after all. If you liked this trick, youll probably appreciate too.