iPhone and “live” photos

[dizzycooks]

So 6 months worth of photos are useless bc the “live” feature on the iPhone 7 means all my photos downloaded (and then deleted) as video clips. One second clips of 1600/1750 of my photos. I am pissed!
I thought I turned it off and then I looked at the photos I took today and they are freaking “live” photos again! What am I missing? My phone is a worthless camera if I can’t take a still photo.

[auroraloo]

Settings > Camera > Preserve settings > live photos

if you do it in the camera app it auto turns back on.

[cjcouple]

Hopefully what auroraloo posted helps. Pictures are super important to me.

[nicolewi]

Is it fixed now? I would be so mad.

[nowa]

Wait is this a thing? My Live Photos download as regular photos I'm pretty sure...

[polarbearfans]

How are you downloading them? My
Live Photos all download as photos on my mac.

[polarbearfans]

Do you still have a backup of you phone? Go back to a previous save that should have all your photos still

[dizzycooks]

Sept 28, 2017 19:17:06 GMT -5 polarbearfans said:

Do you still have a backup of you phone? Go back to a previous save that should have all your photos still

My back up is to the Microsoft cloud which makes it difficult to transfer to Shutterfly. I downloaded them to my desktop and they all showed up as .mov files. I can’t fix it and I have no other back up of my phone. I just want to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

[polarbearfans]

Not sure if this article will help... I'm out of the Microsoft/pc world now when my last computer died. www.makeuseof.com/tag/can-you-recover-data-deleted-from-your-cloud-drive/

I used a program to recover from a sd card I deleted... looks like several articles on recovering from the cloud. I'm sure you already searched google yourself but hopefully you can recover some of the photos

[polarbearfans]

You can turn the live photos off by taping that sun looking thing at the top of your camera screen. Yellow is on, white is off