Dear Apple,


I know I’m a bit late to the game on this one, but after recently upgrading my iPhone from a 6 Plus (not supported in the upcoming iOS 13, so the trade-in price started to drop…), I discovered the on-by-default feature known as Live Photos.

It really, really sucks. Especially as a default. Glad I found out before it ruined any useful pictures. Just a bunch of quick reference pics like this from the Retreat:

Seriously, all it does is document how much your hand moves after you press the shutter button, while breaking any image-processing workflow you might have. What is the actual use case that justifies the development and (coughcouch) QA resources?


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