Migrating live photos from iOS to Android

[Android Central Question]

Is it possible to convert iOS live photos to Samsung Motion Photos? I have all the photos backed up to Google Photos, is it possible to bulk download these in live format or at least view the live versions from Google Photos on an Android

 

[belodion]

They are viewable in Google Photos. Edit them in Google Photos, however, and the Live feature is lost.

Mention what Samsung you have and I'll move it to that forum if you wish, for specific feedback about the Samsung feature.https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154

 

[kinim0d]

Thanks, it would be a Samsung Galaxy S10, so it cannot even be viewed as a live photo from the app? Is there any way to convert them on a mac? I have the image and video pair for each live photo? And would I be able to back up the motion photos from Samsung to Google photos preserving the motion or would that be lost as well?

 

[belodion]

Welcome.

I know very little about Samsung devices myself, so I’ll move this to S10.

 

[Notefan161]

They work still on google photos

 

[JHBThree]

Thanks, it would be a Samsung Galaxy S10, so it cannot even be viewed as a live photo from the app? Is there any way to convert them on a mac? I have the image and video pair for each live photo? And would I be able to back up the motion photos from Samsung to Google photos preserving the motion or would that be lost as well?

You can't convert from one proprietary format to another.