Iphone Live photos crops the image so you can't use it for serious photography

There was already a topic but it was closed. When you select an image to Make Key Photo, this image is cropped. The worst is Apple answer: "While you're selecting your key photo, the picture does zoom in a bit. Once you have selected the photo and save your changes, the image will return to normal, and no longer be zoomed in." This is just not true, as already confirmed by other people.

iPhone 13 mini, iOS 16

Posted on Jul 5, 2023 11:46 PM

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Jul 6, 2023 12:13 AM in response to IamwhoIamok

It entirely depends upon the photography style and techniques. (These are valid for Still Images, Live, and Video)


The selection of a key Photo will depend on the following parameters.


  • Where the camera was made to focus?
  • Where were all the subjects in the Pic?
  • How far from the center the subject head was?
  • What were you trying to picturise?
  • What was Zoom (.5, 1, or 2x)?
  • Did you lock your manual focus and exposure settings for upcoming shots?


Watch 2 GIFs (One for a Video and another one for an image)


A video demo


An image demo.

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Iphone Live photos crops the image so you can't use it for serious photography

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