Higher-quality images, smaller file sizes. What’s not to love?
According to both 9to5Mac and MacRumors, the iPhone 16 Pro models (and only the Pro models, it seems) will support capturing images in the new JPEG XL format. While support from JPEG XL is not listed on Apple’s specifications, both sites claim to have seen code confirming it.
Users will be able to select JPEG XL Lossless or JPEG XL Lossy compression, and 9to5Mac even has Apple’s estimates for file sizes with each format:
11 MB for JPEG-XL Lossy ProRAW at 12 MP
18 MB for JPEG-XL Lossless ProRAW at 12 MP
20 MB for JPEG-XL Lossy ProRAW at 48 MP
46 MB for JPEG-XL Lossless ProRAW at 48 MP
By comparison, Apple’s ProRAW format (which uses the Adobe Digital Negative format .
