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Sometimes you need to resave photos in different formats for work. Doing this on a Mac is easy enough, but how do you change the photo format on an iPhone?
In the new macOS Monterey operating system, the Cupertians have added a built-in photo converion mechanism . It works right in the standard Finder file manager and supports three image formats: JPG , PNG and HEIF . Unfortunately, this feature was not added to iOS, but the iPhone has its own methods and tricks for converting photos to different formats.
How to find out what format a photo is saved on iPhone
One of the features of iOS 15 was the ability to view EXIF data for any photo in the smartphone gallery. You need to do the following:
1. Place the desired photo in the standard Photo application . If it’s stored in another app, save the file to your iOS Gallery via the Share menu .
2. In the Photos app, press the “i” button or simply drag the photo up.
3. In the section with EXIF data, you will see the format of the saved image.
How to convert any photo on iPhone to *.jpg
To do this, you can use the standard clipboard in iOS.
▶ Find the picture you want in the Photos app .
▶ From the Share menu, select Copy Photo .
▶ Go to the Files application and paste the copied photo in any folder through the context menu. When pasted, the image will be converted to *.jpg format .
▶ Through the Share menu , you can transfer the photo back to the Files application .
How to convert any photo on iPhone to *.png
The standard system for creating screenshots will help us with this.
◈ Find the photo you want and open it in full screen mode so that the application interface elements are not displayed on the screen.
◈ Take a screenshot of your iPhone by pressing the Volume Up + Side Button (on iPhone with Face ID) or Home + Power (on iPhone with Touch ID) buttons.
◈ Get a duplicate of the original image in *.png format.
How to convert a photo to any other format
In order to resave the pictures in any other desired format, you will have to use a third-party application.
You can use, for example, the free utility Photo Converter – Change Format from the App Store .
Open the photo in the application and select the appropriate format to save.
