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iPhone change

Malc2098

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I've recently 'upgraded' to an 1Phone 12 :) from my previous iPhone 6. ( I find it's better value to buy 'used' from a reliable outlet.)

However, while trying to upload the images of the last things I've made to that very post, I'm told the images are too big. I checked, and each one is about 2mb.

Were my iPhone 6 images smaller, or does the forum software set a size limit lower than 2mb?
 
As one that has rural wifi internet from a tower 3 or 4 kilometres away, for the sake of download time I wish everyone would resize their pictures to a couple, three hundred kilobytes each. They display fine on the screen and don't take as much time to download. Some of the big file sized pictures of 5 mb or more don't open at all. 2mb pics take a while especially if the post has lots of pictures.

Thanks
Pete
 
I didn't realise that it looks like it should be a practice to reduce image sizes before posting to ease downloading times for slower download locations. In fact, I never really knew what size my images have been until I looked today after failing to load them in a post here.
 
I’ll leave it to the more tech savvy members of the team to help Malc as I do not understand why you should have a problem

This image at 4.3 mb loaded in just 35 seconds on a very slow adsl internet line.

If I understand correctly the forum software automatically resizes the images as you upload them.


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Malc....are your photos in PNG format as I find those can be a problem with the forum s/w. I'll open them in Preview and then save back as a jpeg. Then upload that
 
RogerS said:
Malc....are your photos in PNG format as I find those can be a problem with the forum s/w. I'll open them in Preview and then save back as a jpeg. Then upload that
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Mine are HEICs, and I still can't load direct from photos.
 
Malc2098 said:
Mine are HEICs, and I still can't load direct from photos.
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I don't think that xenforo will support HEIC format - not many things will do, that is a proprietary Apple format - designed to hold additional information so that you can see the 'live preview' and choose your version of a photo... - simple JPG format and there shouldn't be an issue...
 
Yeah it's a weird one with iPhone's (of which I am a user) that some pics save as HEIC and some as JPG and there doesn't seem to be a pattern that I can tell. I've also found that some HEIC's will upload and some won't, so I gave up after a while! If you turn off the live photo option on a picture and re-save it then it should save as JPG and upload okay.

Then again sometimes I get the message that a pic is too large and other times I don't, and the ones that do upload can be bigger file sizes than the ones that won't. My brain hurt then so I stopped looking into it...
 
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Even a screen grab was 4.9mb even though it says 2mb on the info. Yet live photo was already turned off.
 
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