1. An image pickup apparatus having a continuous shooting mode in which a plurality of images are captured for recording in response to an image capture instruction, the image pickup apparatus comprising: a detection unit configured to perform a detection operation to detect a focal point for an object in accordance with a captured image while moving a focus lens in a light axis direction of the focus lens; and a control unit configured to control movement of the focus lens and to control capturing of an image, including capturing first image data of a first image and capturing a second image data of a second image which is continuous of the first image, wherein the control unit is configured to control movement of the focus lens so that the focus lens is focused at the focal point detected by the detection unit, wherein, in the continuous shooting mode and after the control unit controls the movement of the focus lens using the focal point detected by the detection unit and captures the first image data for recording in the continuous shooting mode, the control unit controls the movement of the focus lens before capturing the second image data for recording in the continuous shooting mode, and wherein (i) applying image development processing to the captured first image data to generate processed first image data and (ii) moving the focus lens via the control unit as part of a detection operation by the detection unit to detect a focal point for an object in accordance with the captured first data image to be used in capturing the second image data are performed concurrently.