How to save a video frame as a high-res image in iOS 27

With iOS 27, Apple lets you save any frame from a video in your Photos collection as a new image in just a few taps. Here’s how.

1. In the Photos app, open one of your videos.
2. Use the seek bar to advance to the part of the video you wish to save as an image, and pause.
3. Tap the tree-dot (…) menu in the upper right.
4. Select Save Video Frame as Photo.

This also works in the edit menu, when you’re trimming the ends of your video, cropping it, or adjusting colors. Just choose the three-dot menu, as before.

Note that this new image will be in a normal photo format (HEIF or JPG, depending on your settings) rather than PNG like a screenshot. It will be the full resolution of your video. And it will inherit metadata from the original video, including date and location.

This means your new photo won’t appear at the bottom of your photo library with your most recent images. You’ll have to scroll back to the date of your video to find the image you created.