Depending on how long you've been a Windows PC user, you may remember when videos distributed online came in various formats. Nowadays, with most of those formats having been made obsolete, this isn't ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some high school students taking their AP exams online have run into serious trouble with the HEIC image format on the iPhone and the iPad, which does not work with the website the AP College Board ...

iMazing, the folks behind the iMazing iPhone management app for the Mac, has come up with a new tool to convert HEIC images to JPGs. Most people will not need this, but in case you do, iMazing HEIC ...

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 ...

In this day and age, many people take photos with their smartphones, but when you want to keep your photos for the future, you may be wondering what format to choose for storing them in. So, an ...