5 guides · iOS

Life Reel guides

A photo time-lapse of one person, built from the library already on your phone — entirely on-device.

Life Reel How to Make a Time-Lapse of a Person's Whole Life From Your Photo Library

Turn the photos already on your iPhone into an aging time-lapse of one person. Life Reel groups faces, orders them by age and aligns the eyes. All on-device.

Read guide → People management How to Fix Wrong, Duplicate or Unwanted People in Life Reel

Face grouping is a guess. Rename people, merge two entries that are the same person, hide ones you don't want and set a minimum photo count in Life Reel.

Read guide → Export Exporting a Life Reel: Square, Portrait, Story and Landscape at 720p or 1080p

Pick the right shape and quality for your Life Reel: square, portrait, 9:16 story or landscape, 720p or 1080p. And what the free export includes.

Read guide → Extras How Old Do I Look? Look-Alike and "Mom or Dad?" in Life Reel

Three free party tricks in Life Reel: a playful age guess for faces in a photo, a look-alike score for two photos and a "who does the child take after" split.

Read guide → Why Life Reel Thousands of Photos and No Story: Turning a Camera Roll Into a Life Video

Your camera roll holds years of one person's face and you never look at it. Life Reel finds those photos and turns them into one short clip on your phone.

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