How to edit videos on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac

The Photos app lets you change the length of your video or slow it down directly from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac.

Trim your video

Accept a video that's too long to ship through Mail service or Letters? Or mayhap you simply want to share part of a video with your friends and family. With the Photos app, you can alter the starting time and stop time to make your video shorter.

How to trim a video on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

  1. Open the Photos app and tap the video that you lot desire to edit.
  2. Tap Edit.
  3. Move the sliders on both sides of the video timeline to change the start and end times. To preview your trimmed video, tap the play button.
    iPad showing a video in edit mode
  4. Tap Done, then tap Salve Video or Save Video equally New Clip.

Salve Video saves but the trimmed version of the video. Save as New Clip keeps the original version and saves an additional trimmed version in your library.

How to trim a video on your Mac

  1. Open the Photos app and double-click the video that you desire to edit.
  2. Click Edit.
  3. Move the sliders on both sides of the video timeline to modify the starting time and stop times. To preview your trimmed video, click the play button.
  4. Click Done, then click Save Video or Save Video as New Clip.

How to disengage a trim

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Open the video that you trimmed. Tap Edit. Tap Revert, and so tap Revert to Original.*

On your Mac: Open the video that yous trimmed. Click Edit. Click Revert to Original, or movement the sliders back to the beginning and stop of the video. And so click Done.

* If you're editing a video that yous created using the Relieve Video as New Clip role, tapping Revert to Original will undo any edits that y'all've made, such as adjusting exposure or adding a filter. But it won't restore the video to its original length.

Add a filter and rotate your videos

Later on yous accept your video, open the video in the Photos app and tap Edit. Y'all tin rotate, add together a filter, and accommodate the look of your video in the Photos app. If you don't like your changes, tap Cancel to revert to the original.

iPad showing a video with a filter being applied

On your Mac, open the Photos app and click Edit to adjust the look of your video. If yous don't like your changes, click Revert to Original or Reset Adjustments.

Customize your slo-mo video

Later you record with the slo-mo photographic camera mode, you lot can edit which role of your movie plays with the tiresome motion result. That means you can have your video play at regular speed, and slow down for the details that you don't want your viewers to miss.

iPad showing a video's slow-motion settings being adjusted

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on, tap Edit on the slo-mo video that y'all want to edit. On your Mac, click Edit. Then use the vertical white lines in the video timeline to set when slo-mo begins and ends.

Utilize tertiary-party apps

You can too download third-party apps on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to edit your videos further. Or install third-party photo editing extensions on your Mac to apply alongside the congenital-in tools in Photos. Learn more about editing with third-party extensions on your Mac.

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