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 ...

HEIC, or High Efficiency Image Format, is a file format developed by MPEG and adopted by Apple for iPhones and other devices. It offers advantages such as smaller file sizes, better image quality, and ...

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 ...

If you are an avid user of Apple devices, you might have stumbled upon a file with a .heic extension. If you are wondering, “what is an HEIC file?”, you will be pleased to know you’re not alone. This ...

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 ...

High school students are failing their college entry exams when uploading photos shot with an iPhone or iPad and photos saved in HEIC format, forcing many students to retake the exams. For all the ...

To store more photos and videos on a mobile device, you can either buy more storage or increase image compression. Apple has enabled both paths. It expanded maximum storage so that a 256 GB iPhone isn ...

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 ...

A photo format called HEIC means images take half the storage space as with JPEG. But you'll need a smartphone processor that can handle it. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...