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Hi Paul Kelly5,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities! I see you have a question about making a frame in a video a photo and I would be happy to help.

I was able to find these steps in the Photos User Guide, however, I was able to test some steps and you can do this. Here's how:

Double click on video in Photos app

Stop video on frame you'd like to have as a photo

Click on the gear icon in the player controls to the right

Select the option "Export frame to pictures"

Open Finder

Click on Pictures in the Sidebar

You'll see your photo as a .tiff file

Click on file to highlight it

Click on Share

Select Add to Photos

Voila! Picture is now in Photos!

I hope this helps!

Take care!

I don't find a gear icon for the video on my iphone X. I was able to reduce the video to 2 frames but it is still a video and it stops on the 2nd frame. How do I extract the 1st frame to a photo?