something I've seen countless times over the years: someone offers to take a photo for me with my iPhone and "does me the favor" of disabling Live Photos in the process

then I go a month or more without noticing all my memories have been cheapened due to the lack of Live Photos and I want to throttle the dude at the grand canyon who insisted on taking a picture of me in my awesome "this place is the pits" shirt what the hell

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Kevin R Jones

@searls A blog post I wrote that you might find interesting

How I discovered that the audio in Live Photos can help blind people identify and organize them – Accessibility Insights
accessibility-insights.com/201

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Zach Ahn

@searls There's a setting under Camera ➡️ Preserve Settings where you can configure Live Photo to turn back on automatically after some time. (Apologies in advance if you weren't looking for a solution.)

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Jay McGavren (not satanic)

@searls You think they're doing it on purpose? Do you think they're doing it just for the photo they're taking for you? Or they think it's feature you couldn't possibly *actually* want on, and so they're disabling it for future photos on your behalf?

This is going to bother me a great deal; I'm not OK with the idea of my settings getting f***ed with...

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Jason Long

@searls I honestly didn't know anyone used Live Photos on purpose 😅

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Justin Searls

Yesterday I heard from a lot of people who hate Live Photos and think they're worthless.

Let me just say that as someone who's had a few friends and family members pass away since Live Photos launched that being able to go back to photos and get a few seconds of video and movement on either side of a special moment is transformative in bringing me back to that memory. They've become really precious to me in a way still photos can't.

I'm excited for Apple's 3D Spatial Photos/Videos as a result.

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