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Photos User Guide
- Welcome
- Get started
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- Browse your photos
- View individual photos
- Add titles, captions, and more
- Interact with text in a photo using Live Text
- Use Visual Look Up to learn about a photo
- Isolate and copy a photo’s subject
- View photos others have shared with you
- Delete photos or recover deleted ones
- Remove duplicates
- Hide photos from view
- View photo bursts
- Play video clips
- View Live Photos
- Change Photos settings
- Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Copyright
Export a Live Photo as an animated GIF in Photos on Mac
You can use a Live Photo to create an animated GIF for use on websites and in text messages.
In the Photos app on your Mac, double-click a Live Photo thumbnail, then click Edit in the toolbar.
In editing view, click the pop-up menu in the lower-left corner, choose Loop, then click Done.
Choose File > Export > Export GIF.
Choose a location to export to, then click Export.
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