Apple live pics brings Harry Potter-fashion magic to picture album

YOU won't be getting a cloak of invisibility for Christmas but some other piece of Harry Potter magic is about to exchange your existence.

With the release of the Apple iPhone 6S subsequent week, and the modern video filters which are flavour of the month on Snapchat, one of the large changes coming is that the standard nevertheless photo is now not nevertheless, and now not that humble.

Apple introduced live pix last week, explaining that the default setting of the new iPhone 6S is to have stay pics grew to become on, in order that each photo you'll take with an iPhone 6S you may also be taking three seconds of video — one-and-a-half seconds both facet of the moment you push the shutter.

existing iPhone customers can’t take stay pictures - that’s a function of the new digital camera inside the 6S to be released on Friday next week. but you could take a look at a stay image on an older iPhone or iPad, as long as it's far going for walks the new iOS9 working machine launched this week and you may see the motion.

Unveiling the era in San Francisco last week, Apple confirmed a picture of someone status in front of a waterfall which also contained the motion of the cascading water.

The concept of linking video and still photography isn't modern from Apple — others have long gone down this route.

Snapchat currently launched a few video filters which are both terrific silliness or downright stupid, depending for your factor of view, that will let you create zany video selfies with caricature tears popping out of your eyes or your mouth vomiting a rainbow.

rainbow, you then’re possibly no longer in the beneath 21 age institution this is the standard Snapchat person.

whilst the Snapchat filters are just a a laugh gimmick, Apple’s stay images have the potential to be lots more.

Forbes magazine has already defined the layout, that doesn’t launch till subsequent week, as revolutionising photography.

it might sound like a large call, or a piece of Apple-loving hyperbole, however it comes down to numbers. The iPhone is the most famous camera inside the international — and the brand new iPhone takes live photographs with each snap of the shutter.