With the official release of iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, Apple introduced support for a new image format called HEIF, which uses the file extension HEIC. Apple sees HEIF as a worthy successor to the ...

If you haven’t already experienced abbreviation overload, Apple has added two more to your plate: HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) and HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format — yes, it’s short one ...

Apple announced support for the High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) photo format at WWDC in June, a standard that supposedly retains image quality while boasting better compression that results in files ...

The High Efficiency Image Format is used by Apple iPhones, and now Android smartphones, and it's an image format that, when saved, creates a smaller file-size but the image quality remains the same, ...

Apple's iOS 11, which is expected to be released in the fall of 2017, has also revealed that "HEIF" and "HEVC (h.265)" are newly adopted as formats of images and videos captured by the camera . As a ...

Apple innovation is something more than just shiny metal and glass hardware, it’s in the software that runs it too. In this case, it’s the mobile operating system, iOS 11, which is packing a ...

HEIF is the new photo format that Apple is using to replace JPEG. And it probably will replace JPEGs, because the iPhone is the most popular, most-used camera in the world, and as of iOS 11, most ...

If you have ever owned or operated any computing device in the last two decades, you are probably familiar with the term “JPEG”. Well, if you haven’t, it’s the most widely employed image format which ...

Up until now, iOS devices have captured video in the MPEG-4/H.264 format, and still photos in JPEG. But with iOS 11 (on recent hardware), Apple is breaking with tradition and switching to a new set of ...

ProRAW captures raw photos on iPhone, preserving sensor data for enhanced editing flexibility. The benefits of shooting in ...