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Photos: bursts, live photos — select, save

I have a Mac with High Sierra (10.13.6) and an iPhone SE with iOS 11.4.1.


1. I am confused as between bursts and live photos.


2. In both categories, I should like — after selecting a particular image from a burst or 'mini-video' — to be able to reduce the amount of data stored (particularly on my phone) by deleting all the rejected images. But I seem not to be able to do that: after selecting one image and clicking 'Done', etc., all the images seem still to be there.


I shall save this cry for help in the Mac community because that is where I like to do my editing, but it applies, of course, also to the iPhone community.

Mac mini, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Sep 16, 2018 11:12 AM

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A burst is a cluster of regular photos loosely bundled together. A live photo is more like a video with a distinct frame marked as the key frame.


One of the differences between bursts and live photos is whether you can reduce them to one or more separate images. If you select one or more photos from a burst, they become separate images, and you are given the option to drop or keep the other images.


This is not true of live photos. Selecting a new key frame doesn't reduce the amount of data being kept. You can still go back later and select yet another key frame.

Posted on Sep 16, 2018 9:06 PM

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Sep 16, 2018 9:06 PM in response to Michael Graubart

A burst is a cluster of regular photos loosely bundled together. A live photo is more like a video with a distinct frame marked as the key frame.


One of the differences between bursts and live photos is whether you can reduce them to one or more separate images. If you select one or more photos from a burst, they become separate images, and you are given the option to drop or keep the other images.


This is not true of live photos. Selecting a new key frame doesn't reduce the amount of data being kept. You can still go back later and select yet another key frame.

Photos: bursts, live photos — select, save

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