California: Facebook’s iOS app now lets you share those animated snapshots on the social network. While viewers will need a device running iOS 9 to see the effect, this could give your friends one more reason to check out your baby pictures. Be prepared to wait a little while to try this, however.
Only a “small percentage’ of users can try Live Photos right now, and the wider roll out will continue into the new year.
It’s been just under 3 months since Apple debuted “Live Photos” with the iPhone 6s and, slowly but surely, big third parties are finding ways to integrate them. Tumblr picked them up just days ago… and now Live Photos are getting support from the biggest photo sharing beast of them all: Facebook.
Live Photos are still fairly new, Facebook isn’t pushing support out to everyone at once. While some people will see them start popping up in their feeds as early as this morning, many won’t see them until the new year.
Only iPhone 6s and 6s Plus can capture Live Photos right now — but in the case of Facebook, any device running iOS 9 (so anything as old as the iPhone 4S) will be able to view them.