You know that you can save photos as LIVE PHOTOS. They all look like a gif file, and when your finger touches the photo, a three-second video starts. After that, the photo appears without any movement.

Well, you can take that Live Photo and make a video of it. Here’s how to do it.

Open up your iPhone camera, and on the very right top is a circle inside a circle icon. Click on it, and it activates Live Photos. Now take a picture of palm trees swaying in the wind. Open up Photos, and when the photo of the palm trees appears, just press your finger on it and watch the trees swaying. Look for the share icon (a box with an up arrow in it) then press on it. Press the option to “Save as Video.” Go back into Photos, and you’ll see the same two photos of the palm trees. The new one is a video of it.

Well, after all that work, you’re asking yourself, “I just could have pressed my finger on the first photo of the palm trees to see the same short video clip.” Yep, you could have.

I mentioned Live Text in my last article and a few ways you could use your iPhone to capture text from photos. Well, you can take a Screen Shot of something on your iPhone and also capture text.

Let’s say you went to a website that showed you how to build a picnic table. At the website is a picture of the table and the instructions of length and width. You could take a screen shot of that page by clicking the upper volume button on the left side of your iPhone and at the same time clicking on the On and Off button on the right side. When you hear the click, a small image of the page appears on the bottom left side of the screen, so quickly — and I mean FAST — press on it.

The photo now appears big. Press on the icon on the bottom right that has “Crop and Scale or Select Text.” Hit Done, and then you can choose “Save to Files or Photos.”

But don’t do that! Instead, tap on the icon again. The text is still selected, so instead, click on the Share icon on the top right and choose NOTES.

What you did was copy the text from the website page to your Notes.

Let’s say you want to send the instructions to your friend who’s going to build the same table, and you’ll have a contest to see who builds the best one. No sweat, because you’re going to win.

So instead of wasting valuable time opening up your E-mail app, typing in his address, then pasting the photo of the picnic table instructions on it, then hitting the Send button, you can do it much faster.

Just ask Siri to do it! Open up your photos, choose the picnic table photo with the instruction in it and say, “Hey Siri, send this photo to Elwood P. Suggens.”

You’re done, winner.

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