Will duplicating Live Photos as still photos save space on iPad?

By what method would you plan to do this?

The amount of storage you might save would probably not be worth the trouble. It would take the conversion of maybe 500 pictures to save a gigabyte. If you are running out of space, this isn't the way to solve that problem.

Many operations use the iPhone's empty storage space to move files around. If you run out of storage, then those operations may not be able to be completed and, ironically, that can mean that even deleting doesn't work. If you have less than 10% of your storage free and available, then things can get lost forever. This is also true if your iCloud storage space gets low.

3 KB is indistinguishable from 0.

A Live Photo is just a picture with a short movie, treated as a single object.This duplication procedure that you mention just doesn't change that. If you export Original, you'll get them separated, and you could delete the Live Photos and import the still picture from the export. I doubt that any storage space you save is trivial.

Again, if your phone's storage is getting full, you need to do something serious, and this isn't it.

In US dollars, 200GB is $3/month, and 2 TB is $10/ month. For comparison, add-free Netflix is $20/month, $9/month if you can stand the ads.

The most efficient way to save storage on an iPhone is to use iCloud Photos with Optimized Storage. On my phone, my Photos Library takes up only 7% of the space the full Library would take. The mostly unused parts are kept at iCloud. See this:

Understanding iCloud Photos - Apple Community

7% of your 175GB is only 12 GB !

I doubt that there is any value in your taking pictures at maximum resolution. HDR can't be turned off, but it's pretty efficient. However, if you can choose a lower number of pixels, that could help a bit. It's videos that take a lot of space.

I fear that you're putting yourself into a place of constant frustration, trying to put lots of stuff into a space that's too small for it. That never gets better. You have to keep some of your stuff somewhere else-- iCloud, or an external drive.

You can move older (or less interesting) pictures to an external hard drive-- you plug the hard drive into the port, select pictures, and choose Share>Save to Files, navigating to the hard drive. When you are sure that they are save, you can delete them from the phone.

lt468 wrote: I am not familiar with saving with Hard Drive and I only have the iPad Pro and iPad Mini all earlier versions! However, my brother saves his photo using his iMac !

From an earlier post

"you plug the hard drive into the port, select pictures, and choose Share>Save to Files, navigating to the hard drive. When you are sure that they are save, you can delete them from the phone. "

Thank you for your reply ！I was trying to delete Live Photos after duplicating as still photo thinking it will save some storage. I just noticed today for the first time in the Duplicate folder that a still photo takes up more storage than a Live Photo by 3KB !

I read from Google that I would save storage if I delete Live Photo from the recently Deleted Folder thinking that a Live Photo takes up more storage! Apparently not so!

Thank you very much for your replies, Richard ! May I know if I can save storage with HDR photos? I tried duplicating but there’s no option for duplicating as still photo! I have used 195GB since 2017 and 175GB are for my Photos, Videos. I am trying not to spend 12.99 every month for storage. My iPad and iPhone barely use the 256GB storage. I’m trying to use Add To Bookmark instead of Reading List and saving Files locally. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you in advance !

Unfortunately, in Canada for 200G is only $3.99 then there’s a jump to to 2TB for $12.99 and I’m the only person in my household to use Apple. For the $12.99 plan , it is suitable for family ! I feel guilty to have 2TB just for myself ! My family is into Google Pixel and Samsung ! I cancelled my Netflix a year ago and I think I can justify getting the 2TB plan ！

Thank you very much Richardfor all your replies and suggestions!

Thank you very much for all your replies and suggestions. Unfortunately, in Canada 🇨🇦 the 200GB is only $3.99 and there is a jump in price for 2TB at $12.99.

With your comparisons on different subscriptions, I can justify my spending $9 more for 2TB even though on iCloud page , it is recommended for family! My family are into Google Pixel and Samsung!

Thank you again for your advice!

Yeah, for both of us it costs over 3 times as much. You can keep some stuff on a hard drive, but the price of Hard Drives has gone way up, too.

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I am not familiar with saving with Hard Drive and I only have the iPad Pro and iPad Mini all earlier versions! However, my brother saves his photo using his iMac !

Sorry for the duplicate replies above! I am new to posting here!

Thank you very much Richard., I finally bite the bullet and upgraded my iCloud Plan

! Now I can take photos freely! 🤣

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Great! It is still a good idea to have a backup on an external drive or on a computer!