iPad/iPhone Tips: How to Crop Pictures with the Photos App

There are thousands of photo editing apps you can download in the App Store, but most people just need the most basic of editing tasks like cropping photos. Cropping a photo allows you to move the frame of the picture to include only what you want. It's not the same as resizing a photo, which would leave the photo in-tact and just change its size. Here's how to crop pictures on iPhone using the Photos app.

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How to Crop Pictures with the Photos App

Open the Photos app and select the picture you want to crop.
Tap Edit in the upper right corner.
Select the icon that looks like a frame with two arrows around it at the bottom of the screen.

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Here, you can rotate the photo, tilt the photo, and crop the photo.
When cropping the photo, you have two options:
- Drag the edges and corners of the photo to manually crop your image. You can pinch your photo to change how it fits into the frame and adjust the edges of the frame to change what parts of the image are seen.
- Or, tap the three squares in the bottom right corner. Here you can select ratios that offer various options for cropping.

You can also use the rotation tool to crop corners. By rotating the dial left or right, you can adjust your images exactly how you want. Once the dial is released, the edges of your rotated image will be cut off.

If at some point you crop the image too closely, hold your finger on the image to see what parts fall outside of your cropping frame. And if at any point you don't like your changes, here's how to revert an edited photo back to the original.

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