

You’re probably wondering what an iPhone time-lapse video looks like, so here’s a relatively short example that I captured shooting a time-lapse video of clouds passing over some nearby trees. Example Time Lapse Videos Shot with iPhone Remarkably simple, right? It is, when the video is done recording you’ll find it in the Photos app “Recently Added” or “Camera Roll” section, or the “Videos” section of iOS Photos (yes, that’s a little weird that videos are in the photos app).

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How to Record Time Lapse Video with Camera on iPhoneĪs already mentioned, you’ll need the latest version of iOS to have this feature on the iPhone, and a fairly modern iOS device as well. The effect is really nice, and can be used to record everything from a blooming flower, to traffic zooming around a city or a road, clouds flying in the sky (which is our example video below), or people moving around maniacally in a scene, or whatever else you want. We’re going to demonstrate how to use the new Time-Lapse feature on iPhone, and offer a few tips to get the best results with your videos.įor some quick background, time-lapse works by reducing the capture speed of record images in a video, and that reduced framerate gives the illusion that time in the video is moving faster, as if a video is sped up or lapsing. Not long ago, Time-Lapse photography and video was considered fairly advanced, but the iPhone makes it so simple that quite literally anyone can record a high quality time-lapse video with little effort at all. Of the many Camera capabilities that iPhone offers, perhaps one of the most fun and interesting to use is the Time-Lapse feature. You can easily record amazing time-lapse videos using the iPhone camera.
