Iphone Imovie photo aspect ratio

Please help ASAP! I’ve been raking my brains for hours. No matter what I’ve tried I can NOT get photos (not video) to vertically align in imovie on iPhone (NOT ipad)


When I use camera and set ratio to 16:9 vertically the whole pic is still not fitting. I can’t seem to find how to pinch in or out for VERTICAL alignment.


I so desperately need help ASAP.

iPhone 12, iOS 18

Posted on Jan 26, 2025 9:10 AM

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Posted on Jan 27, 2025 1:37 PM

Hi,


As you have found, iMovie for iPhone does not have a pinch feature for photos, but only for videos.


As a workaround, you can save the photo as a .mov slideshow in the iPhone photos app, and then import it as a video into your iMovie project. That should make the pinch feature available.


-- Rich


P.S. -- I had responded to your post earlier, but since I didn't see it listed as a response I re-posted. So you might get duplicate posts.

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Jan 27, 2025 1:37 PM in response to Petalingintoart

Hi,


As you have found, iMovie for iPhone does not have a pinch feature for photos, but only for videos.


As a workaround, you can save the photo as a .mov slideshow in the iPhone photos app, and then import it as a video into your iMovie project. That should make the pinch feature available.


-- Rich


P.S. -- I had responded to your post earlier, but since I didn't see it listed as a response I re-posted. So you might get duplicate posts.

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