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On iPhone, you can easily save images you’ve received from email or messages. Whether you receive a message from a friend with pictures of your road trip or an email from family with photos of the grandkids, you can save those images to your iPhone with a couple of taps. Saving images on iPhone from email or messages is roughly the same process, but with email you can also copy and paste the image from one email into a new email. We'll cover both methods, plus some quick ways to transfer those images from your iPhone to your desktop. Here’s how to save images from email and messages on iPhone.

By default on Mac, iTunes opens automatically when you plug your iPhone or iPad into your computer. If you have a Mac, the Photos app will also automatically open. But for many people this causes a lot of problems, including computer freezes. Luckily, you can disable itunes auto launch pretty easily. We’ll go over how to stop iTunes from opening automatically when iPhone is connected as well as how to disable Photos auto launch when iPhone is connected. You’ll need to change these settings on your computer, so have it ready. Here’s how to stop iTunes (and Photos) from opening automatically when your iPhone is connected with a USB cable.

Big news broke the internet recently. Since Instagram now has Snapchat-like features such as disappearing photo stories, the social network decided to continue its imitation: if someone takes a screenshot of your disappearing photo, you will receive a notification. While the internet seemed to freak out over this, it’s a great measure for privacy. Disappearing photos are supposed to...well, disappear. So it only makes sense that you’d receive a notification when someone decides you disappearing photo should be a more permanent photo on their device. Now that Instagram stories are a bit more secure, here’s how to take an Instagram photo that will disappear.

Before iOS 9, you were limited to sending five photos via email from iPhone. But now that limit is gone. Some people have reported being able to email up to 100 photos. While that is a lot of photos to email, it’s a great feature to have for sharing photos privately with family and friends. For the longest time, I emailed pictures to myself to easily transfer photos from my iPhone to my computer. Whatever the reason you need to send photos via email from iPhone, you can send a lot more than you used to be able to. Here’s how to email pictures from iPhone.

Having a difficult time remembering where that picture from your spontaneous trip to the beach was taken? Or at what time you captured that beautiful sunset? The great thing about geotagging on iPhone is that you’ll never be left wondering when or where a particular photo was taken again—but for many, that might not be such a good thing. If revealing your location is a concern, you can easily turn this feature off. Here’s how to keep your camera from tracking your location on iPhone.

The People album on iPhone with iOS 10 or later allows you to group photos of individual people together in their own album. One feature we recently discovered is the ability to hide specific photos in a person’s album. Let’s say there’s a photo of them you don’t want others to see if they were to look at their album, you can hide the photo so that it’s not easy to find. Here’s how to hide a photo from a People album on iPhone.

Need iPad and iPhone help? Sign up for iPhone Life Insider and I’ll help you with all of your iPhone troubleshooting and iOS-related issues. Here’s a question from an Insider who has never deleted a photo from their iPhone and now wants to delete them all at once.

Taking an iPhone burst photo is a great way to guarantee you get the action shot you want. If you stumble across a once-in-a-lifetime shot and want to be certain you have plenty of images to choose from, burst mode on iPhone is the way to do it. But when you take a photo in Burst Mode on iPhone, all the pictures clump together in the Photos app. This leaves a lot of people wondering how to view burst photos then save those individual burst photos.What is Burst Mode on iPhone? It's  a sequence of photos taken quickly one after the other by holding your finger on the iPhone's shutter button. There's no need to turn iPhone Burst Mode on like other iPhone camera functions. Burst Mode is always ready, allowing you to capture action shots at a moments notice. We'll cover how to view burst photos as well as how to save the iPhone burst photos you want to keep. 

If you've ever found yourself checking your teeth or applying lipstick in the reflection of your iPhone screen or if you've ever considered downloading an iPhone mirror app, this tip is for you. There isn’t a built-in iPhone mirror app, but using your front-facing Camera app will do the trick. We’ll go over how to use your iPhone as a mirror. And in case you absolutely insist on downloading a mirror app for iPhone, I’ve got two great free mirror apps for you too.

With iOS 10, Apple added the album People to the Photos app on iPhone. In general, it’s a very handy feature for finding pictures of a particular person. If you often take group photos, the People album does the work of finding photos of the people in that group for you. But what if there’s a particular person whose People album you want to delete? Turns out that unless you want to completely and permanently delete all the photos of that person from iCloud and your devices, you can’t delete their folder. But you can hide it. Here’s how to hide a People album in Photos on iPhone.

Taking Live Photos is a relatively recent iPhone feature. It was introduced as an iPhone 6s feature, which means all iPhones after that include the Live Photos feature. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, and even the iPhone SE are all able to take Live Photos. Live Photos are three-second-long moving pictures, which appear still until you press and hold the image. You can edit Live Photos, save stills of Live Photos, share live photos, and use Live Photos as live moving Wallpapers for your iPhone Lock screen. I loved being able to take Live Photos on a road trip last summer. Live pictures of the ocean are particularly fantastic, because Live Photos capture sound too, which means I caught the moving waves and the sound they make. Now it’s your turn; here’s how to take Live Photos, plus all the possibilities listed above.

Is Apple’s new Clips app a replacement video editing app for iMovie? Not quite. The Clips app taps into the Instagram/Snapchat generation, offering an extremely easy platform in which users can create video stories and share them with friends. While Clips is a pretty awesome free video editing app, it’s not going to fulfill the same purposes as iMovie. For the video editing professional, Clips isn’t going to cut it for complex projects. But for the everyday person, it’s a fun new way to create professional-looking videos that are easily shareable with friends and via social media. I’ll go through everything you need to know to start creating and editing videos with the Clips app. This is the latest Apple app, and it seems that its main purpose is, simply, fun.

With iOS 10 on iPhone, the Photos app got a new album called People. With it, you can automatically sort photos by the people in the photos. For example, my co-worker Jaime is one such person in my People album. All of the photos I have with him in them collect into the Jaime folder, which allows me to quickly and easily access those photos. However, the app isn’t able to perfectly recognize every face in a photo, thus some photos remain uncategorized. But you can change that; here’s how to add uncategorized photos to the People album on iPhone.

The Photos app got a lot of small upgrades with iOS 10, including the addition of a People album. The app looks through your photos for similar faces, then groups them together so that if you’re looking for images of a specific person, you can easily find them. However, this will only work if you assign a name to that group of photos. Otherwise, how will the Photos app know who Jaime is when you’re looking for his dorky photos? Here’s how to add a name to the People album in Photos on iPhone.

If you have an Instagram account, you’ve surely seen reposted photos with credit given to the account it originated from. But there is no option to repost a photo within the Instagram app, so how do they do it? With a third-party app! Being able to repost photos is crucial for businesses and  fun for individuals. There are multiple third-party apps you can use to repost photos to Instagram, but I’m going to show you my favorite and how I use it along with the Instagram app to repost a photo.

The Photos app got a lot of small upgrades with iOS 10, including the addition of a People album. Within your People album, you can add people to your Favorites, which will place them at the top of your People album so that it’s easy to find pictures of them quickly. This is a particularly helpful tip if you have photos of many different people. Here’s how to add someone to your Favorites in the People album of Photos on iPhone.

You may have seen some really stunning artwork on Instagram recently that looks like a photo with a really intricate filter. These photos as artwork became a huge trend on social media when the photo editing app Prisma started trending. There are entire Instagram accounts dedicated to sharing Prisma photos and for good reason—they’re stunning. Here’s how to turn your photos into artwork on iPhone.

A new Instagram feature allows you to upload up to ten photos and videos in one post to your Instagram feed. This creates a sort of slideshow on Instagram that you can share with your friends via your Instagram feed. The slideshow appears on Instagram much the same as a regular post, except you have the ability to swipe left and right to view the other photos or videos in the post. I’m sure Instagram users will come up with many creative ways to use this slideshow feature to its fullest. Here’s how to share multiple photos or videos to Instagram in one post.

You can hide photos on an iPhone in the Photos app—kind of. By kind of, I mean you can hide the photos from Years, Collections, and Moments. However you can’t hide photos from All Photos, which means you aren’t really hiding the photo much at all. Anyone who looks through your photos will still be able to find the supposedly hidden photo private picture folder on your iPhone. But there is a way to really, truly hide photos on iPhone from prying eyes using the Notes app to make a private picture folder on your iPhone. For even more security, you can also use an app to hide photos in a secret photo album on iPhone. Here’s how to hide photos on iPhone.