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I'm currently making live/animated wallpapers for Android phones, which is pretty easy with GIF/Mp4 files. But I would also like to make the live wallpapers compatible natively with ios/iPhones. I've seen many tutorials on how to convert a video to a Live photo but they all involve some kind of app you need to install on your IPhone. Issue is, I don't own an iPhone or any iOS device to do that and apparently iOS emulators are not a thing, so my question is :

Is it possible to convert a (mp4) video to an iOs Live photo through a 3rd party ? If so, how would you do it ? I'm pretty inexperienced with the iOS environnement so thank you for your help !

Yokiie
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Well, a live photo is a container that holds both a .jpeg and a H.264-encoded .mov file. More details here.

Do you have an Apple computer to do so, or do you want to create it independently from any apple hardware?

For the first case, there are a bunch of (demo) applications on github you could take a look into.

For the second case, I'm not sure if anything exists.

Andreas Oetjen
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  • I do have access to an Apple computer so that would be acceptable. But my particular usecase is I want to do it programmatically for 1000 gifs (or maybe mov if I convert) rather than manually 1 by 1 – nickjm Mar 08 '21 at 17:40
  • Did you already check this library: https://github.com/LimitPoint/LivePhoto ? To me it looks quite promising. – Andreas Oetjen Mar 08 '21 at 20:47
  • First requirement: **macOS 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.12 (Sierra)** – 0stone0 Mar 10 '21 at 19:59