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

Have a video that's likewise long to transport through Postal service or Messages? Or maybe you only want to share office of a video with your friends and family unit. With the Photos app, you can modify the start and stop time to make your video shorter.

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

  1. Open up the Photos app and tap the video that y'all want to edit.
  2. Tap Edit.
  3. Move the sliders on both sides of the video timeline to change the beginning and finish times. To preview your trimmed video, tap the play button.
    iPad showing a video in edit mode
  4. Tap Done, then tap Relieve Video or Save Video equally New Prune.

Save Video saves only the trimmed version of the video. Salve 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 change the outset and stop times. To preview your trimmed video, click the play push.
  4. Click Washed, and then click Relieve Video or Save Video as New Clip.

How to disengage a trim

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect: Open up the video that you trimmed. Tap Edit. Tap Revert, then tap Revert to Original.*

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

* If yous're editing a video that you created using the Salve Video every bit New Clip function, tapping Revert to Original will undo any edits that you've fabricated, 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

Afterwards you lot take your video, open the video in the Photos app and tap Edit. Yous can rotate, add a filter, and conform the expect of your video in the Photos app. If yous 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 suit the wait of your video. If you don't like your changes, click Revert to Original or Reset Adjustments.

Customize your slo-mo video

After you tape with the slo-mo camera way, y'all can edit which part of your picture show plays with the slow motility effect. That means you tin 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 impact, tap Edit on the slo-mo video that you 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.

Use third-political party apps

You can as well download third-party apps on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to edit your videos farther. Or install tertiary-party photo editing extensions on your Mac to use alongside the built-in tools in Photos. Acquire more nearly editing with 3rd-political party extensions on your Mac.

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