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recently, wechat announced that wechat moments can now post live photos. select a live photo and it will include dynamic images and sounds after it is published. this feature is gradually being added to ios 8.0.51 and above. after the news was released, topics related to "wechat live" were quickly pushed to the top of the hot search list. however, some apple users said that they were not affected by the grayscale change, while android owners were still angry, "why don't i have it?"

live photo is a feature released by apple on iphone 6s in 2015. live photo records the 1.5 seconds before and after the photo is taken. users can turn on the feature by clicking the live photo button in the upper right corner of the iphone camera. the live photo feature is turned on by default. the 3-second content of live photo is composed of a jpg image and a 45-frame mov video file. before iphone 6s, blackberry, nokia, htc and other mobile phone manufacturers also launched similar features, but they did not become popular.

long before wechat, apps such as jike, douyin, xiaohongshu, and weibo had already started to support live photos. wechat is considered to be an app that was relatively slow to respond.

for users, it is very meaningful for wechat moments to support live photos.live photos are a medium between static pictures and videos. they are more atmospheric than static photos, but shorter than the short videos we normally see. a 3-second video has a more "friend" atmosphere. generally, users will not think of modifying or editing it carefully. it may record a user's action or expression, or a dynamic landscape, which is very joyful to watch.。

if wechat moments becomes widely popular with live photos, the user experience of moments will surely be taken to a higher level. however, the most unbearable thing about wechat this time is that the live photos feature of moments is still in the grayscale stage, and many apple users have not yet been popularized. some netizens have posted tips on how to post live photos on wechat moments.

1. update wechat to version 8.0.51;

2. log out and log in again once, twice or three times.

i tried two or three times without success and could only stare at others who had successfully experienced it.

as the app with the largest number of users in china, any update of wechat will directly or indirectly benefit certain companies. so who is the biggest winner of the wechat moments support for live pictures? the answer is iphone 16.

first, wechat's support for live photos will increase the popularity of this featurealthough apple launched live photos as early as 2015, and the iphone 6s was called the "nail house god phone" by netizens, even now, some people are still using the iphone 6s. however, the live photos feature has not become popular, which is largely related to the lack of application scenarios for live photos.

there are many apple phone users in china, but the mainstream users are still owners of huawei, honor, oneplus, xiaomi, vivo, oppo and other phones. after the launch of ios live photos, other phone manufacturers did not follow suit, which greatly reduced the effectiveness of live photos. in the past, it was common that other phone manufacturers would immediately launch a feature after apple launched it, but live photos is one of the few features that did not "follow" apple.

although apps such as jike, douyin, xiaohongshu, and weibo also support live photos, without "universal" use, live photos are still a niche function and its popularity cannot keep up.

now, with the addition of wechat, the popularity of live photos will be greatly increased. if this feature becomes increasingly popular, mobile phone manufacturers such as huawei, honor, oneplus, xiaomi, vivo, oppo, etc. will definitely follow suit, and live photos will eventually become popular.

secondly, live photos consume mobile phone memory, which speeds up the probability of users changing their phones.there is a very famous andy and bill's law in the field of science and technology, which states that the performance improvement of hardware is quickly consumed by software.

for example, smartphones have increased in memory from the initial 2gb to the current 8gb and 16gb, and storage space from 16gb to 512gb or even 1tb. mobile phone chips have gone from the initial 32nm process technology to the current 3nm process technology. the hardware of the mobile phone has undergone various upgrades and iterations, but after experiencing it, users will find that problems such as phone lag and insufficient memory still occur. why?

this is because the hardware is being updated, but the software will also continue to add new features for a richer and more diversified user experience and user entertainment, which will cause the software to become more numerous and complex.

in june 2024, the topic of "wechat's size has expanded 575 times in 11 years" was pushed to the hot search. the initial size of wechat's installation package was only 457kb, but now it has exceeded 700mb. some netizens have sorted out the size change chart of mainstream app installation packages from 2012 to 2022 and found that the size of qq's installation package in april 2017 was 38.5mb, and the size of the ios version in april 2022 was 841.5mb. the size of taobao's installation package in april 2017 was 74.9mb, and the size of the ios version in april 2022 was 463.9mb. the installation package size of other apps such as alipay, weibo, and douyin has also increased several times compared to the past.

judging from the above data, although mobile phone manufacturers such as apple, huawei, honor, oneplus, and xiaomi are constantly improving their hardware level, head apps such as wechat, douyin, and taobao will also continue to improve performance to "consume" hardware. the improved photo and video capabilities of smartphones match the needs of users on the application side. now even taking a photo of the moon has become a very easy and common thing, which has led to the proliferation of photo and video media on the software side. today, the rapid popularization of ai has enabled everyone to make good short videos.

live photos are a brand-new medium. their popularity in the circle of friends will make wechat's "memory" larger and larger. in the past, users may have thought that 64gb of storage space was no problem at all, but now they will find that even 512gb of storage space does not seem to be enough. wechat can now easily take up dozens of gb of storage space on the phone.

according to netizens, the memory occupied by live photos is about twice that of ordinary static photos. that is to say, if an ordinary photo is only about 2mb, then a live photo will occupy 4mb. if you want to post 9 photos at a time on moments, the difference is about 18mb.

live photos do take up a lot of phone memory, so even after i changed my phone to 256gb of storage space, i still keep the habit of turning off the live photos button for a long time.

if users are used to the existence of live photos, then, just because of the problem of mobile phone memory, users will definitely find a way to change to the new iphone 16 pro or iphone 16 pro max, and the highest version (1tb) of these two models. from this perspective, iphone 16 is the biggest winner in this wechat moments live photos.

the new iphones released by apple in recent years have all been dubbed "the most mediocre generation of iphones", and this time the iphone 16 still failed to escape this title. tianfeng international analyst ming-chi kuo recently released data saying that the pre-order sales of the iphone 16 series in the first weekend were about 37 million units, a decrease of about 12.7% compared with the iphone 15 series in the same period last year.

the mediocre performance of the hardware will make users have no desire to upgrade to a new iphone, but if the phone’s memory is insufficient, or if you want to experience the fun of live photos for a long time, should you buy a new phone?