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# isLivePhotoCaptureSuspended

A Boolean value that indicates whether Live Photo capture is currently in a suspended state.

```
var isLivePhotoCaptureSuspended: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

By default, this property’s value is <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/false>. Set this value to <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/true> to stop any current Live Photo movie captures in progress. Doing this prevents recording additional actions in the Live Photo movie. For example, if you want to capture a still photo that makes a shutter sound, you can prevent recording that action.

When you change this value to <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/true>, the system trims any Live Photo movie captures in progress to the current time. Likewise, when you change this value from <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/true> to <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/false>, subsequent Live Photo movie captures won’t contain any earlier recordings.

By default, this property resets to <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/false> when the [`AVCaptureSession`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVCaptureSession) stops. You can prevent this behavior by setting [`preservesLivePhotoCaptureSuspendedOnSessionStop`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVCapturePhotoOutput/preservesLivePhotoCaptureSuspendedOnSessionStop) to <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/true> before stopping the session.

> Important:
> Setting this property to <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/true> throws an <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Foundation/NSExceptionName/invalidArgumentException> if the ``doc://com.apple.avfoundation/documentation/AVFoundation/AVCapturePhotoOutput/isLivePhotoCaptureEnabled`` property’s value is <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/false>.

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