Will Live Photos be available on iPhone 6 or iOS9 also?

This is a user-to-user forum, Apple does not participate. And only Apple knows the answer to your question. My guess, however, is if they haven't offered it in the 2 years since the feature was added to other phones they are unlikely to in the future.

Ginnyjawa wrote:

Will live photo will available on my iphone 6 plus 128gb ??

No - https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ You need an iPhone 7 or 7+

No. It is hardware based in the camera.

I don't think it's an hardware feature, it's just a small video attached to the photo, it's software base (IMHO).

so why not?

What is a "small" attached to the photo? It does use software but the firmware needed for the feature is in the new 12MP camera they are using.

Small video, I edited my previous post sorry

It won't support Live photos unfortunately 😟 I just looked through the comparison of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S

I think that is because iPhone 6 and 6 Plus don't have iOS 9 yet in that comparison.

When you have dowloaded and installed iOS 9 I think iPhone 6 and 6 Plus will have Live Photos as well.

I mean, it can't be hardware. It's just to take a picture and make a short video 1,5 sec before and after the picture which you then compress into the image file. It must be software.

The only think that will differ is the image size. On the 6S's it will be 12MP and on the 6's it will be only 8MP..

And the reason why Live Photos wasn't included in the beta version of iOS 9 is because Apple didn't want to reveal the technology before the live event yesterday.

See the post logged at 4:30 am this morning.... It has zero to do with the iOS....

GB

According to reports at several sites it is not in GM that has been released to developers and not in the 9.1 version just released.

Older iPhone models can view Live Photos taken on supported devices, they just can't take them.

finally indeed. It's certain that Live Photos is software and 3D Touch is hardware , everybody understand that and, Gail , I assure you that we understand the difference.

I hope that Apple will implement Live Photos at least for iPhone 6, obviously with another gesture to activate them.

Finally what? The 3D Touch screen is also software, the software in iOS 9 for interaction. The only software in the 6s series that handles Live Action Photo is the same thing, code in iOS 9 to activate the camera. If you remember back to Panorama, slow motion, stop motion, etc. the same arguments were presented in this forum, that it was software. But then other phones came out with the same cameras and had the same features. Did they steal Apple's software.

For this feature to work to within Apple's high standards you would need good stability, a fast shutter, precise start and finish timing, etc. While that might be feasible in software it would be a lot of code subject to bugs, increase the size of iOS 9 and lower quality. Others might write such an app and then it can be compared. Expect to see other phone companies with this same feature next year under another name.

A similar argument ensued when Apple released a MacBook Pro with Airplay Mirroring. It was limited to that model even though Air Parrot had an app that did this. But it didn't do it near as well as Airplay Mirroring. People wrote the same arguments, it is software. But all one had to do was go to Intel's site where they described their new chipset, which used a different name for the feature, that enabled this. Within 6 months PCs had the same feature in their commercials.

Of course 3D Touch is software but you need the specific hardware the new iPhone 6S has. But with Live Photo you don't need such specific hardware. All you need is a camera and the software in iOS 9 that enabels Live Photos.

Unless all of the ability to do this is embedded within the camera firmware which is inherently faster than a software based approach and all the iOS 9 software does is call the API in the firmware which does the rest. Just like Panorama. Or slow motion. You do know that many camera features over the past years have been embedded in the camera firmware? Like autofocus?