If you’ve got an iPhone, you’ve probably taken a Live Photo by accident at some point. Today, Live Photos are a wildly popular feature of the iPhones 6s and above, and iPad Pros (sorry, Android fanatics). Well, apart from clicking the shutter button, of course.
In fact, they are 12-megapixel photos that animate 1.5 seconds of motion either side of the still without you having to do a single thing. Live photo might seem like a glorified term for video, but this type of media has one foot in the photo camp and one foot in the video camp. Live photos aren’t a new concept, and they certainly aren’t a unicorn of an idea – if the newspapers in Harry Potter could feature moving scenes, then it’s not too big a step to assume that technology today is capable of a similar thing.