How to make Live Photos on iOS 8 or older (Jailbreak)

Live photos - a new feature of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. As the name implies, such photos can be “animated”, this

achieved by recording a short (one and a half second) video before and after the moment of shooting; Live photos were viewed using 3D Touch.
If you have an older iPhone, do notsupporting this technology, do not worry - there is a jailbreak tweak called PhotosLive, which allows you to take live photos on devices running iOS 8.

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How to use PhotosLive? Launch the Camera app; you will see a yellow ‘Live’ icon indicating that the tweak is running. If you don’t see it, click on the PhotosLive icon next to the HDR to enable PhotosLive. As soon as you take a photo, a tweak will automatically add additional frames to it, making it animated.

To view a live photo, open the album, inwhich it contains. Photos taken with a tweak are marked ‘Live’. Press and hold on the photo preview to start the animation. The sound will not be reproduced, since the tweak only adds frames to the photo, and does not record video, as implemented in the original Live Photos technology.

Tweak adds a separate dialogue with Settingsyour settings; You can choose the duration of the animation, turn on or turn off the front lighting to take a selfie in the dark, and also change the gesture that starts the live animation.

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Jailbreak community is surprisingly fast porting new technologies to old devices. PhotosLive is very similar to the original Live Photos and perfectly replaces it on previous-generation iOS devices.

If you are interested in seeing this tweak in action, it can be purchased for $ 1.99 as part of the BigBoss repository from Cydia. Share your impressions in the comments!