How do I disable live photo in imessage? Every time i am taking a photo while in a message it defaults to a live photo. This is frustrating.

I figured it out, in your iMessage window, hit the camera icon to take a photo, then hit the “camera” button on the left to bring up the full camera within iMessage, turn off the live photo setting there and it should remain off

Greetings, Espresso116.

I see that you don't want to use the Live Photos feature while taking a picture from the Messages application on your iPhone 7. You've turned that feature off in the Camera application and also under "Preserve Settings", but the Camera in Messages still shows you're taking a Live Photo. I'm happy to help.

Take and edit Live Photos -- Open the Camera application and make sure that it's set to Photo mode, then check Settings > Camera and be sure that "Preserved Settings" in engaged. Force an app to close on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch -- Next, close the Camera and Settings applications and -- Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch -- Once your iPhone has returned to the Home screen, open the Camera application and Settings, check that they're still engaged, then test the issue.

How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch -- If restarting your phone didn't resolve the issue, please be sure to have a fresh backup to keep your personal information safe. In order to back up your Health data, the backup needs to be encrypted. iCloud does this automatically, but iTunes doesn't. If you'd like to use iTunes to back up your phone, refer to this article: About encrypted backups in iTunes

If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch -- Even though the title of the article isn't specific to your issue, the section titled "Put your device in recovery mode and set it up again" will walk you through all the steps to reinstall the iOS software on your device. Test the issue once your phone has returned to the Home screen.

Let me know how that goes.

Take care!

BINGO!!!

That did the trick ( I must say these are elusive fixes and inelegant design flaws that Steve Jobs would not have tolerated)

My phone was working fine, live photos were off in iMessage. Today I had to reset my phone settings, and now no matter what steps I try, Live Photo is still activated in iMessage. iPhone X running the latest iOS, any ideas? Thanks

Hi Joe,

I have exactly the same problem. I can turn off Live Photo in the camera app and retain that setting by using the preserved settings for Live Photo option. The camera app works fine and Live Photo remains disabled by default, also after rebooting the phone (multiple times now).

However, the iMessage app doesn't follow the camera app settings and keeps Live Photo enabled no matter what I do. As mentioned I followed your process and rebooted the phone multiple times now.

Really frustrating, do you have some additional guidance on how to solve this particular issue.

Kind regards,

Ruud

Thanks a lot Stuuu! That's indeed the solution.

yes! thank you. that was driving me crazy.

Stuuu YOU ROCK!!! Thanks so much for this!!! It's so important for work stuff....amazing!

I’m sure I’m late to the party on this, but OMG thank you! That’s been driving me nuts for a while!

Try turning on "Low quality image mode" in Settings > Messages