Strip the video. Keep the photo.
Every Live Photo is a still image plus a 3-second video clip, often double the storage of a regular photo. For receipts, food, products and documents the clip adds nothing. HEVCut removes it.
Most Live Photos don't need to be live.
Three seconds of static paper. Photos of receipts, business cards, notes and screenshots-of-things gain nothing from motion capture.
That latte does not need to wiggle. Product shots, food photos, things you photographed to remember later are perfect cleanup candidates.
Landscapes, buildings, architecture, still nature. The video often only captures camera shake or wind noise; the still is usually better.
Find, review, convert.
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Find every Live Photo
HEVCut scans your library and lists every Live Photo, sorted by file size. Sort by largest to hit the biggest wins first.
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Review and select
Preview the motion on each one to decide if it is worth keeping. Selections persist across sessions, so you can work through them in pieces.
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Convert in one tap
The MOV clip is removed; the HEIC image stays untouched. Same resolution, same metadata, same album, just half the bytes.
Common questions.
- Will I lose photo quality?
- No. The still image inside a Live Photo is the same HEIC as a regular photo. HEVCut only deletes the MOV clip; the image is byte-identical afterwards.
- Can I convert a still photo back to a Live Photo?
- No, the conversion is permanent. That is why HEVCut shows previews and lets you carefully pick. When in doubt, skip and keep it live.
- Does this affect iCloud Photos?
- Yes. The smaller file replaces the Live Photo across all your devices, so you save iCloud storage too, not just local space.
- When should I keep a Live Photo live?
- Faces showing personality (smiles, laughs, gestures), action shots of pets or kids, photos with meaningful audio (first words, ambient sounds), creative long-exposure effects.
- How do I stop capturing Live Photos by default?
- Open Settings, Camera, Preserve Settings, enable Live Photo. Then open the Camera app and tap the Live Photos icon to disable it. The camera will remember the setting between sessions.
Free up space. Keep your memories.
HEVCut runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Everything stays on-device, offline. Try a few compressions before committing to Pro.
Try it on the App Store