babowa
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Q: exporting/sharing slideshow in iOS Photos

I took a series of pics this morning on my new iPad Pro 9.7". When we got home, I looked at them and idly clicked on "slideshow", which I had never used before. I found that a) you could pick amongst different themes with built in music and b) hook it up to the TV and watch it there. All very cool.

 

I then tried to find a way to save/export the slide show exactly the way it was. Starting a project in iMovie did not do it and I do not do anything cloud related, so that is out. I tried every option/button I could find, but could not figure out if there is a way to export/airdrop to my iMac. I am able to send the pics - but that is not what I am wanting to do; the slideshow theme I was using was really cool and that is how I'd like to export it (as a finished/ready to go slideshow).

 

FWIW, could not find anything directly relevant in the user guide.

 

Anyone with any ideas? If anyone thinks this would be better addressed in the iPad forum (but there is no Photos subcategory), please have it moved.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 2012 i7 3.4 GHz 16 GB RAM

Posted on Apr 17, 2016 2:42 PM

by léonie,Solvedanswer
léonie léonie
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A:

As far as I know, there is no way to export a slideshow in Photos iOS.

 

It used to be able in iPhoto iOS. We couls share a slideshow as a webpage and ply it online, but the creative sharing options  - books, slideshow, journals are missing from Photos iOS.

 

Not even iCloud Photo Library does transfer the slideshows between devices,

 

YOu could only try tor recreate the slideshow in Photos on your Mac.

Posted on Apr 17, 2016 3:18 PM

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  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Apr 17, 2016 3:18 PM in response to babowa
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    Apr 17, 2016 3:18 PM in response to babowa

    As far as I know, there is no way to export a slideshow in Photos iOS.

     

    It used to be able in iPhoto iOS. We couls share a slideshow as a webpage and ply it online, but the creative sharing options  - books, slideshow, journals are missing from Photos iOS.

     

    Not even iCloud Photo Library does transfer the slideshows between devices,

     

    YOu could only try tor recreate the slideshow in Photos on your Mac.

  • by babowa,

    babowa babowa Apr 17, 2016 6:12 PM in response to léonie
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    Apr 17, 2016 6:12 PM in response to léonie

    Ahh, you are amazing! (I had never opened Photos on my iMac because I prefer other apps for editing and don't care for the library file structure). In any case, I airdropped them to the iMac, imported them into Photos and was able to create the same slideshow - I will be working on it later to do some finetuning. The other thing I found is that I can actually export them as a movie file which means I can burn it to a DVD.

     

    Very cool - vielen herzlichen Dank!

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 17, 2016 11:12 PM in response to babowa
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    Apr 17, 2016 11:12 PM in response to babowa

    You're welcome, babowa!

  • by joyceonholly,

    joyceonholly joyceonholly Jun 29, 2016 5:03 PM in response to babowa
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    Jun 29, 2016 5:03 PM in response to babowa

    If you created a slideshow in Photos, how did you export it as a movie? I'm having lots of trouble with figuring out how to share a Photos slideshow across platforms.

    Thanks!

  • by babowa,

    babowa babowa Jun 29, 2016 7:03 PM in response to joyceonholly
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    Jun 29, 2016 7:03 PM in response to joyceonholly

    I did not export the slideshow. If you'll look at leonie's post, you'll see the suggestion to recreate the slideshow in Photos on my Mac.

     

    So, what I did (and still am doing) is to airdrop the photos to my iMac, create a slideshow in Photos, export as a movie, and (if you want) you can airdrop that back onto your iPad. I've then been deleting the photos on the iPad and just keep the slideshow.

  • by F17P30R8G5MP,

    F17P30R8G5MP F17P30R8G5MP Jun 30, 2016 2:57 AM in response to babowa
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    Jun 30, 2016 2:57 AM in response to babowa

     

  • by joyceonholly,

    joyceonholly joyceonholly Jun 30, 2016 9:10 PM in response to babowa
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    Jun 30, 2016 9:10 PM in response to babowa

    Thanks for the reply. I should have made a distinction in my question between making a slideshow -- just grouping a bunch of slides -- and making a Slideshow (capital S, an Apple project). It's a different challenge and now I will never create another Slideshow! However, I did a workaround. I exported the Slideshow to Google Drive, which made it into a movie, a platform that YouTube recognizes. I then created a YouTube movie. Lots of hassle, but I learned a lot about Photos.

  • by babowa,

    babowa babowa Jun 30, 2016 9:37 PM in response to joyceonholly
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    Jun 30, 2016 9:37 PM in response to joyceonholly

    I think you lost me - a slideshow is a collection of photos (not slides); Photos will do it for you or you can make your own; I imported one photo at a time and then put them together. You can also make a slideshow in iMovie (or several third party apps). You can send your project to several online places directly from iMovie (and also Photos I believe; however, I am not near my iPad at the moment to confirm).

  • by Esoterical8ed,

    Esoterical8ed Esoterical8ed Aug 29, 2016 6:53 PM in response to babowa
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    Aug 29, 2016 6:53 PM in response to babowa

    Sadly this appears to be one of the MANY shortcomings in the functionality of iPhoto.. most likely purposely to open many doors for app developers. Hundreds, literally, of apps that make this task easy