Edit photos and trim videos

You can edit still photos and Live Photos right on iPod touch. If your photos are stored in iCloud, your edits are updated across all your devices set up with iCloud, and both your original and edited versions are saved. If you delete a photo, it’s deleted from all your devices and iCloud. Photo app extensions can provide special editing options. See App extensions.

Edit a photo or Live Photo. View the photo full screen, tap the Edit button, then tap a tool.

Compare the edited version to the original. Touch and hold the photo to view the original. Release to see your edits.

Don’t like the results? Tap Cancel, then tap Discard Changes. Tap Done to save changes.

Revert to original. After you edit a photo and save your edits, you can revert to the original image. Tap the image, tap the Edit button, then tap Revert.

Mark up a photo. View the photo full screen, tap the Edit button, tap the More button, then tap Markup. Annotate the photo with the Markup tools.

Trim a video. Tap the Edit button to display the controls, drag either end of the frame viewer, then tap Done. Tap Save as New Clip to save the new video clip in your Videos album (the original video remains unchanged).

Video with the frame viewer across the bottom. The Cancel button is in the lower left and the Done button is in the lower right.

Set the slow-motion section of a video shot in Slo-mo. Tap the Edit button, then use the vertical bars beneath the frame viewer. (See Shoot video for information about Slo-mo.)

The control for setting which section of video plays in slow motion