When you take a photo with an iPhone or iPad, the default format that the images saves in is Apple’s HEIC. This has been the norm for several years now, and even though more and more devices are ...

High Efficiency Image Containers, or HEIC files, are typically unique to Apple products, so here’s how iPhone or iPad owners can convert their images to JPG to combat any compatibility issues with ...

The main advantage of this format is that it offers high-quality images at nearly half the file size of JPEGs. However, the downside is that not all platforms and devices support this format, which is ...

iPhones offer some of the best cameras that come on a smartphone. Thanks to the amount of detail and natural color reproduction, iPhones are often considered the phone substitute for a full-fledged ...

Apple has introduced the HEIC (High-Efficiency Image Format), developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), as a revolutionary format for images on iPhones and other Apple devices. But what ...

You can take some fantastic, high-quality photos using your iPhone camera. But unless you know how to convert HEIC to JPEG, you will have a hard time using those pics with many apps, websites and ...

You can AirDrop photos as a JPG by manually converting HEIC to JPG or always saving in the JPG format. You can disable HEIC using the Most Compatible option in Camera Settings. To AirDrop an ...

At nearly 30 years old, the JPEG was created around the same time as the very first web page went live. But while web pages look nothing like that very first plain text web page, images are still ...

How to deal with HEIC images proves to be the hardest question of all How to deal with HEIC images proves to be the hardest question of all is a senior reviewer covering laptops and other gadgets.

Apple's got one idea for next-gen photo technology, but a rival approach based on the new AV1 video compression tech could go a step further. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...