Report: iPhone 6s Live Photos to take up 2X the storage

Photos taken with the new “Live Photos” feature on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will reportedly take up twice the storage as a standard 12MP picture, according to a new report from TechCrunch. In a video, TechCrunch’s Editor-in-Chief Matthew Panzarino explains that even current iPhones are buffering photos as soon as the Camera app is launched in order to create a fast and responsive user experience, with only the most recent image stored when the shutter button is pressed. The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, on the other hand, will basically dump this entire buffer in such a way as to store the standard 12MP image along with “sidecar data” that adds up to approximately one more image’s worth of data, thereby requiring twice the space. According to Apple’s Developer Documentation on the feature, iOS 9.1 will also offer APIs that will provide third-party apps with the ability to incorporate playback of Live Photos, and export Live Photos for sharing and exporting both Live Photos and traditional JPEG versions of Live Photos.