Live Photos is a new feature that is available for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus only. As the name suggests, it brings your photos to life by capturing a short duration (1.5 seconds) video before and after you take a photo and the playback can be viewed with 3D Touch.
If you own an older iPhone that doesn’t support Live Photos, you no longer need to worry as a new jailbreak tweak known as PhotosLive aims to bring Live Photos to unsupported iOS 8 devices.
To get started, launch the stock Camera app and you will notice a yellow ‘Live’ label on the camera feed that indicates PhotosLive is enabled. If you can’t see this, make sure to tap on the PhotosLive icon located next to ‘HDR’ to turn it on. Once you capture a photo, the tweak will automatically take additional JPEG frames along with the photo that will enable it to be animated.
To view the Live Photo, head to your Camera Roll and open its preview. Photos that have been taken with the tweak enabled will have a ‘Live’ label displayed on them. When you tap and hold on the photo, a live animation of it will be shown. However, you will not be able to hear the audio sound as the tweak uses JPEG frames as opposed to Apple’s Live Photo implementation which uses video.
The tweak also comes with a separate preferences pane accessible via Settings where you can choose the duration of the animation, enable or disable front flash to lighten up your face when taking a selfie in the dark, choose the gesture which starts the Live Photo animation and more.
It’s impressive to see how quick the jailbreak community is in porting new features to older iOS devices. PhotosLive is a close clone of Live Photos and is the best way of experiencing it on your old iOS device that doesn’t support the feature.
If you’re interested to get your hands on it, PhotosLive can be purchased for $1.99 from Cydia’s BigBoss repo. Make sure to let us know what you feel about the tweak in the comments section below.
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