#Live photo to gif shortcut how to
#Live photo to gif shortcut download

In the Settings here I'll probably want to give this a name and then maybe choose where to show it. So this is kind of a script that allows me to choose a video or a live photo and convert it to an animated GIF. So I can actually choose a video and the video will actually work as well. One of the cool things is that I'm not saying anywhere in here that it has to be a live photo. I can hit Done or let's test this out now with this new one it should be a much smoother animated GIF. So I could say I'll make it a much more horizontal video rather than something that's square if I wanted to. I can play around with whether or not to Autosize or, you know, change it to a specific size if I want.

Like, for instance, I can go in and say number of seconds per photo. Now I have that Share button like I said so I can do all sorts of different things with it or nothing with it. Encode the media and after it encodes it it'll make the GIF and then it shows it to me. I will select one and it's going to bring that one in and then it's going to run the rest of the script there. I have a smaller little subset here that I've created called Sample Live Photos. So instead of having to go and say, well this is going to share by Messages or share to Facebook, instead it's going to give you all the options you want including doing nothing with it. I love the Quicklook action as a way to end a shortcut because it shows you the result and it gives you a little Share button.

Now the great thing is that we can use Quicklook. But it will then see this live photo as a piece of video rather than a photo. No changes to the metadata or anything like that. So it's going to be the same size, not audio only, it's going to be video, normal speed and all that. It basically says okay I'm going to take this photo that's coming in and I'm going to encode it and I'm going to basically make no changes at all. So this is where you think well I'm at a dead end. Well, it still doesn't work because it still doesn't use the live photo as a piece of video. Now you would think this works, right? Take the live photo and make it a GIF. But, you know, providing you select a live photo it's going to work. This is a little dangerous because you can easily select a regular photo and not a live photo. You'll be able to go and make a selection. So we're going to go instead we'll do Photos and there's Select Photos. But it's better to be able to choose anything. So one way we can do it is we can say choose several photos, like six live photos, and then say choose from a list. What if we wanted to use, you know, one from sometime earlier. But that doesn't help if we don't want to use the latest one. If you say give me the latest one then it takes the last live photo you took and it puts it into this function. Now it turns out that there is a shortcut for that. Maybe it will one day in the future but right now if you try to share a live photo this way it sees it as a single photo and gives you an error saying you can't create an animated GIF from a single photo.īut, if you were to actually choose the live photo then it will actually see it correctly. So you can go into Photos, say Share this Photo, and then choose the shortcut. You would think that the way to do that is to go to Settings and have it show in the Share Sheet. How do we want the photo to get into this shortcut. So let's drag that one over and we see we've got some settings here. So let's search here in the functions for GIF and there is one called Make GIF.

#Live photo to gif shortcut download

So the Shortcuts app, and if you don't have it of course download it from the iOS App Store, you can it seems easily create a new shortcut and have it go and make an animated GIF. But there is no export GIF functionality. Live photos are really cool and useful and you'd think how that would make the perfect animated GIF that can be posted to Facebook or something.

#Live photo to gif shortcut how to

Video Transcript: So let's take a look at how to use Siri Shortcuts on iOS to create animated GIFs from live photos. Check out Siri Shortcuts: Live Photo To Animated GIF at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.