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As an Apple user since 1988, and first-generation iPhone adopter, I feel that "Live Photo" is the worst feature ever introduced to any Apple device. I've tried "preserve settings" and all that, but it keeps coming back like a zombie. Is there any way I can disable this so-called feature forever, secure in the knowledge that it will never appear again? So many photos of mine have be ruined by it.
iMac, OS X 10.10
When it was first released, it was one of those "cool, new features". I suspect that is why it was defaulted to on, and has just stayed that way. I know there have been a few tweaks to how you turned it off, and the setting to preserve camera settings has been one of the nicer ones so once you have configured your camera and exit out, it will stay that way unless you want something else. At least you know that the camera is the way you would normally want it when you start.
When it was first released, it was one of those "cool, new features". I suspect that is why it was defaulted to on, and has just stayed that way. I know there have been a few tweaks to how you turned it off, and the setting to preserve camera settings has been one of the nicer ones so once you have configured your camera and exit out, it will stay that way unless you want something else. At least you know that the camera is the way you would normally want it when you start.
professarap wrote:
I've tried "preserve settings" and all that, but it keeps coming back like a zombie.
It’s not clear what “and all that” means.
Specifically, you need:
Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings > Live Photo = “on”.
Because then you open the camera, turn Live Photo off, the close the camera. Next time you open the camera, the Settings are preserved (ON), so that Live Photo does not come back on. That what the setting does, it does not turn off Live Photo, because just turning Live Photo off then closing the camera, next time you open camera, Live Photo would turn back on.
Thanks, that explains it -- though it doesn't explain why iOS's designers chose to have LivePhoto turn on by default. Every time I upgrade, my selection is forgotten, and I end up with dozens of unwanted LivePhotos. I hope the next version changes that, and gives users the option to disable LivePhoto in some more permanent way.
Why would preserving Live Photo = "on" ensure that Live Photo would be off??
This worked for me.. thanks. The live feature to me delays use of the camera and I hate it
How to turn of Live Photo permanently -- forever
