FAQ: Apple's newest iPhone software attempts to move the world out of the JPEG era. CNET decodes the technology. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

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 ...

HEIC is the file format name Apple has chosen for the new HEIF standard. HEIF stands for High Efficiency Image Format, and, as the name suggests, is a more streamlined way of storing image files.

Microsoft's PC software is joining Apple's iOS and Google's Android in embracing HEIF, which halves photo sizes compared with JPEG. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have an iPhone running iOS 11 (or later) or a Mac running macOS High Sierra (or later), chances are that, at some point in time, you might have come across the HEIF (or HEIC) and HEVC formats ...

Google Android P isn’t the only operating system gaining native support for the new High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF). Microsoft is rolling out new preview builds of Windows 10 with native ...