[Leica] Warning to iPhone users..... Thanks Apple......

[Douglas Barry]

Thanks Frank
My 5S is so old it doesn't even have Formats available under Settings> 
Camera so I have obviously been spared the issue.
If I'm going out with the intention of taking pictures, I go out with a 
camera. All of my iphone snaps tend to be aide memoires.

Douglas

On 29/09/2022 20:23, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote:
> Apple has again changed something in some pretty recent update to iOS. 
> Past times they snuck in ways to get access to your phone, changed the 
> security features, added features for the 11-16 year olds, or 
> otherwise change settings that you spent hours to find and get right.  
> It was up to you to find these sneaky changes and fix them.
>
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>
> But back to square one.... and the fact that the pictures from the 
> iPhone had suddenly gotten horrible.....
>
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>
> THIS complaint is about the use of your phone as a camera.  In the 
> past, the camera took jpg images.  With some recent iOS update, Apple 
> decide that you did not want nor need that anymore.... that their new 
> and  improved HEIC format is what you want.... so they set that in 
> settings as the default.
>
> They even have the nerve to state that the images are just as good as 
> jpg images..... BIG LIE!!!
>
> Let me assure you, the HEIC images are horrid.  Too heavily 
> compressed.  Probably OK if you want to just see them on your phone, 
> but absolutely wrong if you want to use the images to make prints, 
> blow up images, or otherwise actually USE the images.
>
> The fix?
>
> Settings > Camera > Formats > Set to Most Compatible. Done.
>
> Now you are back to where you started..... after spending time to 
> wonder WHY your images are so blocky, terrible (over compressed), and 
> otherwise POC.  ( Pieces of !@#$).
>
> Thanks Apple.......  Does it really take that much effort for you to 
> LEAVE OUR SETTINGS ALONE when you update iOS??????
>