HEVC hardware compatibility

[tinous98]

The iPhone guide established that only iphone 7 / 7plus / 8 / 8 plus are capable of using the new HEVC formats for photos and videos.
What about the iPads ? can any of the iPad Pros use this new format ? Could not find any thing in the iPad guide...

 

[Sharkoneau]

As long as the iPad in question is running a variation of the A10 chipset or newer, it will fully support both HEVC/HEIF encoding and decoding.

If the device is running an older processor, it will still be able to receive images/video in the new format. However, it cannot format content in this way on its own.

 

[tinous98]

thanks, so my iPad Pro 9'7 will not be able to benefit from the new format as I was hoping... Too bad.