Crop Photos on an iPad With the Photos App

This article teaches you how to crop photos using your iPad's native Photos app.

Steps

  1. Open Photos. It's a white app with a multicolored flower, typically found on the Home screen.
  2. Tap Albums. It's the icon of overlapping rectangles at the bottom-right of the screen.
  3. Tap an album. There should be several albums listed here, such as "Camera Roll" (or "All Photos" if iCloud Photo Library is enabled), "Favorites," "People," and "Places."
  4. Tap a photo you wish to edit. Doing so will enlarge the photo on your iPad's screen.
  5. Tap the Edit button. It's the icon that looks like sliders with buttons in the upper-right corner of the screen.
  6. Tap the Crop button. It's the icon of two overlapping angles at the bottom-left of the screen.
    • If you're holding your iPad horizontally, the icon will be on the right side of the screen.
  7. Crop your photo. Do so in one of two ways:
    • Crop manually. Tap and drag a corner or side of the photo. Dragging the bottom side upward, for example, will remove anything below it from the photo.
    • Use a preset constraint to apply its aspect ratio to your photo. Tap the icon of overlapping squares at the bottom-right of the screen to see the list of available preset constraints, such as Square or 9:16.
      • Tap a preset constraint to apply it to your photo.
  8. Tap Done. It's in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Doing so will save your changes and exit the editing screen.
    • If you're holding your iPad horizontally, Done will be in the upper-right corner of the screen.
    • Tap Cancel in the bottom-left corner of the screen, followed by Discard Changes, to revert to the photo's original state. If you're holding your iPad horizontally, Cancel will be in the lower-right corner of the screen.



Tips

  • To straighten your image while cropping, place two fingers on the iPad’s screen and rotate them in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction.

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