Live Photos are the fun animated images captured by modern iPhone and iPad cameras. Essentially each Live Photo is a still image attached to a short movie clip, and much like movie clips there is a key image that can be set to represent the picture as a thumbnail. Changing that key photo can be desirable if the Live Photo thumbnail preview doesn’t really capture the image well, and you can instead scrub around in the Live Photo for a thumbnail that better represents the image.
This tutorial will show you how to change and set a Live Photo key photo in iOS.
You will need a device that supports Live Photo and an actual Live Photo to do this, you can take a Live Photo with the iPhone or iPad camera if you haven’t done so before, and then use that for testing this out yourself if desired. Of course you’d need to enable Live Photos first before such an image is captured.
How to Set Key Photo in Live Photos for iOS
Open the “Photos” app and choose any Live Photo
Tap the “Edit” button in the corner
Scrub on the timeline with your finger to find the key photo you want to set
Tap and hold on the thumbnail then choose “Make Key Photo”
Choose “Done” to set the changed key photo in iOS
Now anytime you’re browsing the thumbnail view of Live Photos in the Photos app, or if you share the Live Photos, the newly set Key Photo will be the default.
Live Photo is a neat feature with a lot of tricks up its sleeve. One of the more interesting capabilities recently added is the ability to use Live Photos to take long exposure images on iPhone or iPad. And don’t forget you can always convert a Live Photo to still image in iOS if you later decide the animated picture isn’t what you’re looking for after all.
The Accessibility Shortcut in iOS allows users to quickly enable and use various accessibility features on an iPhone or iPad, giving near instant access from just about anywhere to features like AssistiveTouch, Invert Colors, Color Filters, the Magnifier, Reduce White Point, Smart Invert, VoiceOver, and Zoom.
For example, a great usage for the Accessibility Shortcut is to quickly access the Magnifier feature of iOS, or to toggle Smart Invert on, or to temporarily turn the screen greyscale, or zoom the display to read some text or element that is too small to distinguish without that extra zoom level.
There are nine possible Accessibility Shortcut options to choose from in the latest iOS releases, we will show you how to set the Accessibility Shortcut to customize it for your own use, and of course we’ll show you how to use the Accessibility Shortcut on an iPhone and iPad as well.
How to Set the Accessibility Shortcut in iOS
The Accessibility Shortcut can be customized to initiate a single Accessibility feature, or bring up a menu with multiple Accessibility choices. Here is how you can set and customize this capability on an iPhone or iPad :
Open the “Settings” app in iOS
Go to “General” and then to “Accessibility”
At the bottom of the Accessibility section, tap on “Accessibility Shortcut”
Choose the Accessibility item you want to activate when the shortcut is accessed:
AssistiveTouch
Classic Invert Colors
Color Filters
Magnifier
Reduce White Point
Smart Invert Colors
Switch Control
VoiceOver
Zoom
OPTIONAL: select more than one to have the Accessibility Shortcut show a short menu with each selected option
When satisfied exit out of Settings
Go ahead and summon the Accessibility Shortcut* to confirm your changes are working as expected.
Note that whether you select multiple Accessibility Shortcut options or just a single option, summoning the feature is the same.
What is the Accessibility Shortcut for iPhone and iPad? How do I use it?
* Accessing the Accessibility Shortcut differs per iOS device, and whether or not the iPhone or iPad has a Home button or not.
For all devices with a Home button, including nearly all iPad and iPhone devices, you triple-click the Home button in rapid succession to access the Accessibility Shortcut.
For devices without a Home button, like iPhone X, you triple-click the side Lock / Power button to access the Accessibility shortcut instead.
If you have just a single option chosen as the Accessibility Shortcut, then triple-clicking the button will enable that particular Accessibility feature. If you have multiple Accessibility Shortcut options enabled, then triple-clicking the button will trigger a menu:
It may be helpful to know that you can also change the click speed of the side button on iPhone X, as well as change the click speed of the Home button on other iOS devicesif you find that the default click speed required isn’t working well for you.
The Accessibility Shortcut isn’t the only way to quickly get to various Accessibility features, and if you find yourself using some with some regularity but not often enough to include it in the Accessibility Shortcut, then you can customize the Control Center of iOS to have access to those, or also to have access to some other helpful Accessibility features as well, like the ability to increase text size.
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