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Apple just unveiled a whole new way to take photos with your iPhone

The new iPhone allows you to take photos in a whole new way.

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One of the features of the new iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, which Apple unveiled on Wednesday, is called "Live Photos." Live Photos turns what looks like a still photo into an animation, like this:

It's sort of like a gif or a short video, but in order to take it, you just take a normal photo.

Tapping an icon — three concentric circles — at the top of the photos app puts your iPhone 6s or 6s Plus in Live Photos mode. 

live photos skitch
Screenshot/Tech Insider

Live photos also have sound with them, so you can listen to whatever was going on when you took the photo.

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