Edit a picture again, and you’ll see that you can turn it on again. But in fact, the live was just turned off. The Problem!īut wait a second, I thought I had removed those live-photos. Then selecting a frame and removing the live. Go into edit mode, tap the “live” at the top of the picture, and BOOM, the picture is a still.įor the past 2 years, I have diligently been doing exactly that. In September 2017, with iOS11, Apple introduced a feature that looks like it would be doing exactly this. I then select one frame and delete the rest. Kind of like a burst of images, but that starts half a second before you hit the button. I sometimes use those to take picture of moving obj.
Here is the comparison of two images: a still (IMG_4764) and a live-picture (IMG_4763): Still image weight 0,78 MB, Live-Picture 0,74 MB + 1,34 MB But if you keep both and just need the stills, you increase the space taken by a picture by 300%. The video is always about twice the size of the picture. Those are composed of a still picture and a small video. Live photos were introduced with iOS9 in 2015 along with the iPhone 6S. what the heck? The problem with Live-Photos
I though I had removed all the Live-Photos. I certainly have a few videos to delete, but my focus is elsewhere. And by “I”, I mean my kids who love to browse old videos from time to time. I personally have a few backup scenarios in place, among which an automatic backup to my Synology NAS, to Google Pictures and an external hard-drive, so I want to keep on iCloud only the videos I would like to access from my phone at any moment.
One of those can easily take up dozens if not hundreds of megabytes of storage. The first action should be to deleting a few videos. So how do we clean this up? Always delete videos first! ICloud Storage Overview - Media Types OverviewĪs you can see on the picture above, I have 239 videos and 4345 live-photos (mini-videos) and what you cannot see are the 7.000 “simple pictures” on top of that.
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