how to enable live photos on high sierra?

If I use Image Capture, it only ‘sees’ the JPEG, not a .MOV file.

I’m using an iPhone 8 on 10.13.1. I’ve switched off My Photo Stream. Turn On Live Photos in Photos is greyed out.

Anyone have any suggestions ?

Do your Live Photos show the "Live" badge in the upper left corner, when you view them enlarged or is it missing?

If this badge is grayed out and inactive, You may need to wait for the video part of the Live Photo to download from iCloud. With iCloud Photo Library enabled, the video part may have been reed from the Mac, if you are using iCloud Photo Library. In that case the Live Photo can be inactive.

After the update HighSierra, macOS 10.13.1 I am also seeing only the JPEG parts of the Live Photos in Image Capture's Import window, when I connect my iPhone with iOS 11.1. But Image Capture imports the Live Photos nevertheless as a pair of a .MOV and a JPEG, when I select the JPEG to import.

Only I have to ensure, that the iPhone downloads the MOV from iCloud, before I try to import.

Photo Stream or import. What's the deal here?

My Photo stream definitely does not sync any video - neither video clips nor the live component of a Live Photo: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203511

If you turn on My Photo Stream on all your devices, iCloud uploads your most recent photos (except Live Photos) and pushes them to the My Photo Stream album on your devices.*

when I connect my iPhone 5s (iOS 11.0.2) to a USB port of my Mac with High Sierra, the Live Photos I directly import are playing, after some time.

And they are also playing, if I import the Live Photos with Image Capture to a folder on the Desktop, and then import this folder to Photos using "File > Import".

In Image Capture I can see, that the Live Photos will be downloaded as a pair of a JPEG and a .MOV file.

Importing Live Photos correctly will break, if you enable My Photo Stream. The Photo Stream will only import the JPEG component, and if you later try to import the JPEG-MOV pair, the import cannot pair the video with the JPEG, because the JPEG imported by My Photo Steam will be a duplicate.

Disable My Photo Stream and do not use it at all, if you need to import Live Photos.

Right, I'm seeing it be flakey. Sometimes the live photo is there, sometimes it's not. Photo Stream or import. What's the deal here?

Specifically NOT paying for iCloud Photo Library (because it should be 5 Terabytes for FREE), I don't know if things changed.

Previously, on macOS Sierra, I could sync the phone via USB cable to Photos and my Live Photos would be there.

I just tried importing a Live Photo this way and there's no Live badge....

Nope

How are you trying to play them? Hold your cursor over the live badge in the upper left? Do they play then?

LN

I've the same problem. Even after syncing the phone via itunes the pic is not badged as a "live photo" and can't be "played".

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First I transferred them by syncing via cable (old school way). Second I air-dropped them... both ways no live photo.