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, ...

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 ...

PC users out there who are part of the Skip Ahead program have an updated version of Windows 10 they can grab and try out. The new version is Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17623 and it has some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer, covering mobile and PC guides that help you understand your devices. She has five years' experience in the Tech, E-commerce, and Food niches. Particularly, the ...

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 ...

If you’ve encountered Apple HEIC files and are unsure how to open them on your Microsoft Windows computer or convert them to JPEG format, this guide is for you. HEIC files are a type of image file ...

When Apple announced iOS 11 at WWDC this year, it promised the ability to take pictures using the HEIF format and videos in HEVC. These new formats allow your media to take up less space on your ...