How Do You Take Photos in Jpeg Instead of HEIC?

[Alvin777]

Hi Mac friends.

In iOS 15.1 and iPhone 6s Plus, how do you set the photos to save in jpeg, instead of HEIC?
How do you make jpeg your default format when taking photos? Where in Settings do I navigate?

Thank you
God bless, Rev. 21:4

 

[no0nefamous]

Navigate to Settings > Camera > Formats and choose Most Compatible

 

[Alvin777]

Navigate to Settings > Camera > Formats and choose Most Compatible

Hi. There's no Formats setting, sadly. I wonder where it is? This is the only settings in Camera

 

[Shirasaki]

All photos stored on your iphone will be stored as HEIC. However, depending on whether you want max compatibility, or max space saving, you could either let iOS send all HEIC as JPG or send HEIC or JPG automatically. The setting should be here:

 

[johaen8]

Hi Mac friends.

In iOS 15.1 and iPhone 6s Plus, how do you set the photos to save in jpeg, instead of HEIC?
How do you make jpeg your default format when taking photos? Where in Settings do I navigate?

Thank you
God bless, Rev. 21:4

Capturing HEIC is only available on iPhone 7 and above. Your iPhone 6s Plus only takes jpeg. See Using HEIF or HEVC media on Apple devices - Capturing this media.

 

[no0nefamous]

While we're on this subject, how does the phone so quickly convert the images from HEIC to JPEG if you switch the "Transfer to Mac or PC" setting?

 

[Alvin777]

Thanks everyone. By the way how come Apple uses HEIC as default after the iPhone 6s Plus models? Does HEIC preserve everything like RAW does and is as high quality?

 

[Cobold]

HEIC is way more efficient when it comes to file size.
It has the same quality as JPEG (or maybe even a bit better) but waaaaay smaller file size.