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Have you ever recorded a great video and then realized the moment you really wanted was buried somewhere in the middle? Maybe your grandchild flashed the perfect smile for half a second.Perhaps your dog made an expression you could never get again.
You might even have caught the exact moment someone crossed a finish line or blew out birthday candles.A lot of us would pause the video and take a screenshot.That can work, but your phone may already have a better way to pull a frame directly from the video and save it as its own photo.Apple now makes this especially easy in iOS 27.
Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy owners can do it too, although the buttons are in different places.Here's how to find them.Join us for a free CyberGuy LIVE class.Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson shares practical ways to stay safer, smarter and more confident with technology.
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(Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket)Apple added a dedicated Save Video Frame as Photo option to the Photos app in iOS 27.It lets you find a specific moment in a video and save that frame as a separate image in your photo library.Steps to save a video frame on iPhoneYour iPhone saves the frame as a separate photo in the Photos app.
To find the photo you just saved, open Photos, tap Collections at the bottom, scroll to Recent Days, then tap Saved Today and look for the new frame.Samsung Galaxy phones have a similar tool built into the Gallery app.Once you find the moment you want, you can use the capture button to turn that video frame into a photo.Samsung notes that menus and settings can vary by Galaxy model, software version and region.To find the photo yo...