Live Photos and Videos in a Photo Frame Slideshow

Most photo frames show still pictures. But your phone is full of moments that move: Live Photos that capture the seconds around a shot, and short videos of first steps, birthday candles and waves. Digital Photo Frame App plays them in the slideshow next to your photos, so an iPad or Apple TV becomes a video photo frame and a live photo frame in one. Here's how to set it up.

I'm a dad of three, and a lot of what's on our phones moves: Live Photos and short videos. Here's how to let them play on the frame.

Live Photos

Open the slideshow settings and tap Live Photos:

• Display Live Photos turns them on.
• Play Audio decides whether you hear the sound recorded with them.
• Automatic Playback chooses what happens when a Live Photo appears: Off shows it as a still photo, Once plays the moment once, and Loop keeps it playing while it's on screen.

Live Photos play from your photo library and iCloud Photos. Photos from other sources are shown as stills.

Videos

Under Videos, turn on Display Videos, choose whether to Play Audio, and set Automatic Playback on or off.

Videos can come from your photo library, iCloud shared albums, folders in the Files app, Immich, and NAS or WebDAV servers, which also covers formats like .mkv and .avi.

While the slideshow plays, the mute button in the top bar turns the sound of videos and Live Photos on or off. On iPhone it's in the ⋯ menu.

Music and video sound together

If the slideshow has background music, it fades down while a video or Live Photo plays with sound, then comes back. You hear the birthday song, not the playlist on top of it. More in adding music to your slideshow.

Only videos, or only photos

Sort & Filter can show only photos or only videos, so you can make a slideshow of just your videos, or leave them out of a quiet frame.

Share it as a video

Any slideshow can be exported as a video to send to family. Export Slideshow Options lets you choose the shape (Widescreen 16:9, Portrait 9:16 for phones, Square, 4:3, 3:4 or Original), the music, and whether to show each photo's title, date and place. The export includes your videos and Live Photos with their sound, mixed under the music.

Songs from Apple Music that are copy-protected can't be included in an exported video; the app tells you when that happens.

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