

And if you save the image back to your iPhone’s camera roll, all of its Live Photo magic will have been stripped away. So in order to back up your Live Photos (and all their Harry Potter-like wizardry) to the cloud, you have no choice but to enable iCloud Photo Library. When you try to backup a Live Photos to Dropbox or Google Photos, for example, the still JPEG gets uploaded, but you can’t deep press it to have it come back to life. And when you back them up to any photo service, all you get is a regular flat photo. Live Photos can only be viewed on devices running the latest iOS 9 or on Macs running OS X El Capitan. That’s right: I have yet to find one third-party photo storage app that supports Live Photos, the moving JPEGs that the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus take by capturing the 1.5 seconds before and after you press the shutter. The only way to back them up is using iCloud Photo Library.

Unfortunately, if those memories are in the form of Live Photos, none of the aforementioned third-party iOS apps will save them.
