How to disable Apple’s HEIF and HEVC formats in iOS

Macworld
Jun 22, 2018, 8:00 am523 pts
Apple introduced two high-efficiency multimedia formats in iOS 11 and macOS 10.13 High Sierra: HEIF and HEVC. They take up substantially less storage for the same quality of image as comparable JPEG, PNG, and H.264 video. However, they’re not very useful outside the Apple ecosystem of apps. Right now, these…

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