{"id":341187,"date":"2017-05-16T22:28:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/16\/giphy-ios-app-live-photos\/"},"modified":"2017-05-16T22:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T14:28:41","slug":"giphy-ios-app-gains-ability-to-turn-gifs-into-live-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/giphy-ios-app-gains-ability-to-turn-gifs-into-live-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Giphy iOS App Gains Ability to Turn GIFs Into Live Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[unable to retrieve full-text content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new update to the popular GIF-finding service Giphy this week has introduced Apple&#8217;s Live Photo support into the iOS app, letting users convert any GIF they want into a Live Photo (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mac4ever.com\/actu\/121222_giphy-transforme-les-gifs-en-live-photos\"><em>Mac4Ever<\/em><\/a>). This allows users to more easily see what is a GIF in their camera roll, since GIFs saved as images still don&#8217;t move when looked at in Photos. Giphy said the main point of the new update is to allow for custom animated iPhone lock screen wallpapers.<\/p>\n<p>To create a Live Photo, users will need to first find a GIF they want in Giphy, tap on it, then tap the ellipses button underneath it to expand the sharing options. From there, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/live-photos\/\">Live Photos<\/a> are represented by the same circular icon that Apple uses in the main Photos app, and tapping it will bring up two options: Save as Live Photo in Full Screen or Fit to Screen. In the Photos app, users can tap the image, tap the share sheet, and choose &#8220;use as wallpaper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/05\/giphy-live-photo-250x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"502\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-565432\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere are a few compromises to using and saving GIFs as Live Photos, mainly including the low-quality nature of many of the GIFs on Giphy&#8217;s service, which won&#8217;t result in the best-looking iPhone wallpapers. Saving a GIF as a Live Photo also prevents it from being used natively as a GIF in Messages, where it would normally play on repeat. As a Live Photo, the image will move but only when pressed upon, as with any other Live Photo.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested, <a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/photography\/giphy-for-messenger\">Giphy<\/a> is free to download on the iOS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/giphy-the-gif-search-engine-for-all-the-gifs\/id974748812\">Direct Link<\/a>], and anyone with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-6s\/\">iPhone 6s<\/a> or later can try out the new Live Photos feature.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/giphy\/\">Giphy<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/giphy-ios-app-live-photos.2045924\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=uDLE72YW_I4:-JTc4KmScXc:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=uDLE72YW_I4:-JTc4KmScXc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/uDLE72YW_I4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-341187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}