Google Photos 2.0 for iOS can now turn Live Photos into GIFs

US tech giant Google has released Version 2.0 of its Photos app for iOS that now gives users the ability to edit Live Photos and turn them into shareable GIFs and video clips, a media report said.

Live Photos is an interesting feature in Apple's iPhone 6s/6s Plus and in the soon to be released iPhone 7 models as well. Live Photos are easy to shoot by simply tapping on the circular icon on the camera setting that brings your photos to life by creating a moving image.

A Live Photo captures 1.5 seconds of video and audio both before and after you press the shutter button to take a photo. Thus, in addition to a still JPEG image, you also get a three second Live Photo.

"Google first introduced the ability to edit Live Photos earlier this year with the Motion Stills app," Techcrunch reported on Friday.

The Motion Stills app improves your Live Photos by helping you to do things like crop out the blurry frames, freeze the background, create cinematic pans, stabilise the images.

In addition, the upgraded app also lets you share video clips on YouTube. With the new and updated Photos app for iOS, users can finally share their Live Photos to other messaging apps apart from Apple's own iMessage platform.

However, with iOS 10 WhatsApp is expected to bring in direct GIF sharing that should make things easier for iOS users. We expect WhatsApp to help with sharing Live Photos as GIFs as well for iOS users.

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