iOS 9.1 is out

[Rakehellion]

- Live Photos now intelligently senses when you raise or lower your iPhone, so that Live Photos will automatically not record these movements
- Over 150 new emoji characters with full support for Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 emojis



What if I want a down-facing Live Photo?

 

[maddogchen]

maybe as long as you don't move as you take your live photo you will be ok?

 

[Tegeril]

In much the same way you can activate Siri on moving the phone up to your face, I wager there are some heuristics involved beyond "phone is pointing downward, don't live photo."

 

[TheStu]

In much the same way you can activate Siri on moving the phone up to your face, I wager there are some heuristics involved beyond "phone is pointing downward, don't live photo."

How I understand it
9.0:
Hold up iPhone, take Live Photo, Camera.app captures the 3 seconds on either side of the photo regardless of any other movement

9.1: Hold up iPhone, take Live Photo, Camera.app captures the 3 seconds on either side UNLESS you move drastically (as in, putting your arm down because you forgot/didn't notice it was live photo, didn't feel like standing stock still for 3 seconds, whatever), then it will stop

 

[Tegeril]

Yep! That's how I seem to see it working now.