How to save a video frame as a photo on your phone

Have you ever recorded a great video and then realized the moment you really wanted was buried somewhere in the middle? Maybe your grandchild flashed the perfect smile for half a second.

Perhaps your dog made an expression you could never get again.

You might even have caught the exact moment someone crossed a finish line or blew out birthday candles.

A lot of us would pause the video and take a screenshot.

That can work, but your phone may already have a better way to pull a frame directly from the video and save it as its own photo.

Apple now makes this especially easy in iOS 27 .

Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy owners can do it too, although the buttons are in different places.

Here's how to find them.

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HOW TO SEARCH ANYTHING ON IPHONE, GALAXY AND PIXEL Apple added a dedicated Save Video Frame as Photo option to the Photos app in iOS 27.