Jeremy Gray
Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What it Means for Your Photos
For iPhone photographers, the benefits far outweigh the potential downsides. There’s little doubt that JPEG XL is an excellent image format that offers the quality of heavyweight formats with a file size even smaller than that of JPEGs. What would typically be a 75-ish megabyte ProRAW Max file will be about 20MB in a lossy ProRAW format using JPEG XL compression. A lossless file is still under 50MB. Without compromising quality, those are significant storage savings.
