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How to Enable or Disable Motion Photos on Samsung Galaxy

How to Enable or Disable Motion Photos on Samsung Galaxy

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Ricardo
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So my aim today will be to show you how to Enable or Disable motion Photo on Samsung Galaxy devices such as the Galaxy S10, S10 Plus, S9,S8 and so on.

We will be also looking at how to do this on Android 9 and on Android 10. The process is different for both devices as you will see below.

What is motion Photo?

Motion Photo is a Camera feature that records a short clip of what happens before each picture. The final file that’s created more resembles a short video without sound or similar to a GIF.

How to Enable Motion Photo?

Android 9

Click Play

1.Launch the Camera on your device.

2.Make sure you are in Picture Mode.

3.Go to settings in Camera.

4.Now look for the option: Motion Photos and turn the option on.

Motion Photo

From Now on all pictures that are taken will be taken as Motion Photos until the feature is turned off.

Android 10

1.Go ahead and launch the Camera on your phone.

2. Make sure you are on the Picture Mode.

3.Look at the top of the screen and select the fifth icon on the right. The icon looks like a square with a small triangle in it to one side.

4.You should see on screen : Motion Photo on.

Tapping the icon again once more you should see motion Photo off. There is no longer a option in setting to turn Motion Photo on or off.

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28 responses to “How to Enable or Disable Motion Photos on Samsung Galaxy”

  1. Xavier Avatar
    Xavier

    Great job on describing how to disable motion photos. LOVE that I didn’t have to sort through 10+ paragraphs to find the answer. Short and sweet is always best!
    Thank you.

    Reply
  2. bigfishmedia Avatar
    bigfishmedia

    Thanks, this was driving me crazy, I could not work out how to turn this off and your answer was easy to understand and short and to the point.

    Reply
    1. Ricardo Gardener Avatar
      Ricardo Gardener

      Thank you glad to know the guide was helpful.

      Reply
    2. Nadine Avatar
      Nadine

      Thank you thank you thank you!!!

      Reply
      1. Ricardo Avatar
        Ricardo

        My pleasure

        Reply
  3. Michael J Lenart Avatar
    Michael J Lenart

    This was perfect!! A quick answer to fix the issue. Thanks so much!!

    Reply
    1. Ricardo Avatar
      Ricardo

      No problem glad it proved useful to you.

      Reply
  4. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    Thank you. I have been cursing my phone for several weeks now. Why do they add this useless garbage and then hide it so its hard to know what to turn off? So silly.

    Reply
    1. Ricardo Avatar
      Ricardo

      Some things we may never know. Glad you found the solution though.

      Reply
  5. erick Avatar
    erick

    my phone does not have that option (triangle in a square) on the top of the camera display

    Reply
  6. Eric Krieg Avatar
    Eric Krieg

    I found my problem with not seeing the icon with a triangle in a squarwwas there was a white circle from optional button that was covering it.

    Reply
  7. Inna A petrovskiy Avatar
    Inna A petrovskiy

    WOW!!! Amazing. Thank you Thank you!! Problem solved!!

    Reply
    1. Ricardo Avatar
      Ricardo

      So happy to hear

      Reply
  8. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    Great! THANK YOU! I don’t even understand how it suddenly got turned on. Accidental

    Reply
  9. JBond Avatar
    JBond

    You did much better than the other EXPERTS that take the easy way out thru the ap page. My S9 doesnt even have the able/disable button on that screen. Thank you again..

    Reply
  10. Sarah Yauch Avatar
    Sarah Yauch

    Thank you! It was driving me crazy because I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off.

    Reply
  11. Kristy Kohler Avatar
    Kristy Kohler

    This has been driving me crazy for weeks. I don’t know how it got turned on in the first place. Thank you for the short & easy solution.

    Reply
  12. Grandpa D Avatar
    Grandpa D

    I followed your directions, but my Samsung A71 doesn’t have the “Motion Photos” option to turn on or off. Mine is on and I want to Completely Disable it.

    Reply
  13. bobholzem Avatar
    bobholzem

    I was wondering why my wife’s photos on her S8 weren’t uploading to Amazon Photos. On their site it mentioned the motion view was on. I checked and hers was turned on. If we turn it off will the phot revert to a regular still shot? If I turn it back on again will the motion view return on those photos?

    Reply
    1. Ruth Avatar
      Ruth

      Help I have a 23 and cannot figure it out!

      Reply
  14. Danny Boy Avatar
    Danny Boy

    Thank you so much! I am so glad to be rid of motion photo on my Samsung

    Reply
    1. Ricardo Avatar
      Ricardo

      Glad you were helped by the guide.

      Reply
  15. Betsy Avatar
    Betsy

    THANK YOU!! I spent soooo long trying every way to turn off this friggin’ feature. Never thought to look at the icons, which i usually ignore!

    Reply
  16. Drewbie Avatar
    Drewbie

    Hi, found that “Motion Photo” icon in bright yellow, and turned it off.
    I guess I’ll have to do some minor cropping to stop seeing it on photos I took, inadvertently using that feature.

    Your “tip” was third listing on DuckduckGo, after one useless “sponsored” link, and then a Samsung “users community” preceded yours.

    I prefer “blogtechtips” over Users community.

    🍾🥂🎃

    Reply
    1. Ricardo Avatar
      Ricardo

      Thanks means a lot, love preparing articles for you guys as well.

      Reply
  17. AnneI Avatar
    AnneI

    Nice and easy, motion photo was driving me crazy and couldn’t work out how to switch it off, about 30 seconds on your article and there was the answer I needed. Thank you for posting.

    Reply
    1. Ricardo Avatar
      Ricardo

      Very Glad the article helped, motion photos are quite the bother especially when you never heard of the feature.

      Reply
  18. Marjorie Hawthorne Avatar
    Marjorie Hawthorne

    Wow, answered my question in 5 seconds!

    Reply

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