The iPhone 16 has some small new camera features that many people haven’t noticed, and there’s a really cool feature that could save you a lot of money and put an end to one of the most annoying problems with Apple mobile phones: storage. The company now allows you to capture images in JPEG XLwhich has two important advantages over standard JPEG. But what exactly is this format?
JPEG XL — with extension .jxl — — a relatively new file encoding standard. In fact, it was introduced in 2022 when various operating systems, such as macOS, created compatibility with this image format. In fact, today it is supported by popular platforms such as Final Cut or Lightroom, and, again, the iPhone 16 can also capture images in this format.
One of the main advantages of JPEG XL is that The image quality is slightly higher than that of regular JPEG files.. Except, file sizes are significantly smallerAccording to the JPEG XL community, JPEG XL is 55% smaller than the standard format, but provides higher quality.
This is especially useful not only for Free up space on your smartphone’s internal memorywhich in turn saves money by eliminating iCloud or other cloud storage. It is also useful because it allows you to publish higher quality images on websites without affecting factors such as the loading time of said page. In addition, the smaller size has an impact on the environment, allowing you to reduce the load on data and at the same time reduce the amount of energy.
The JPEG XL format has a small drawback.
On a technical level, the JPEG XL format supports up to 32 bits per channel (compared to 8-bit for standard JPEG), as well as RGB and CMY support, and supports RGB, YCgCo, and XYB color spaces, as well as HDR – something the standard format does not do.
There is one small drawback, however. The JPEG XL format is not as standardized as regular JPEG.that is why many apps and platforms still do not support it. In any case, Apple is making efforts to make this extension more popular due to its advantages. In fact, we repeat, the iPhone 16 has an option that allows users to save images in this format. In addition, they are compatible with iOS 17 and later, as well as macOS 14 and later.
In any case, the JPEG committee guarantees that regular JPEG files can be re-encoded losslessly into JPEG XL, allowing for smaller file sizes without sacrificing quality. Furthermore, they state that “They can be restored to the same JPEG file.ensuring backward compatibility with existing JPEG-based applications.”
Source: Hiper Textual
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