How to Loop a Video on iPhone

The fastest way to loop a video on iPhone is to use the Live Photo Loop effect if the moment qualifies, or cut a regular clip precisely on the point where it repeats. Here's both approaches, and why some loops jump and others don't.

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Loop a video on iPhone with the Live Photo Loop effect

If the moment is a Live Photo, tap the Live button in the top left and choose Loop. It repeats the captured action in a continuous cycle, playing forward and starting over each time it ends, unlike Bounce on the same menu, which plays forward then backward instead of looping forward only. From there, tap the share icon and choose Save as Video to turn the looping Live Photo into an actual video file you can save to your camera roll or send elsewhere.

Building a loop that doesn't jump

For a regular clip that wasn't captured as a Live Photo, the loop has to be designed rather than found. The last frame needs to closely match the first, in framing, subject position and light, which in practice means thinking about the loop before you film rather than after. A shot where the light is visibly shifting, or where the subject drifts even slightly out of their starting position, breaks the illusion the moment it repeats. Even a gap of a few frames between the true start and end is enough for a viewer to see the seam, which is exactly where a loop stops feeling seamless and starts reading as an edit.

Filming with the loop in mind changes what you're actually watching for on set: not just whether the shot looks good, but whether you can physically return to something close to the starting position. A hand back where it started, a step retraced, a light source that won't shift noticeably in the few seconds the clip runs. It's a different kind of attention than filming a normal shot, and it's the one variable that no amount of editing afterward can substitute for.

No export limit, no watermark

Montaj has no loop button. The repeat itself is something you build on the timeline, or leave to the platform you're posting on. What it does handle is the cut that makes a loop work: a real timeline to place the in and out points frame by frame, 100 levels of undo while you hunt for the exact match, and an export that's verified for duration and frame decoding before you get the file. There's no duration limit and no watermark on the way out, so a clip that has to survive being watched on repeat isn't carrying a logo through every cycle.