Casey Liss

And then second, in the camera app at the top, there'll be this little yellow circle with either like one little person's head in it or two little people's heads in it. Change it to two little people's heads because that says, hey, when you take a photo with this camera, it'll go to the shared library. And that's it.

And then second, in the camera app at the top, there'll be this little yellow circle with either like one little person's head in it or two little people's heads in it. Change it to two little people's heads because that says, hey, when you take a photo with this camera, it'll go to the shared library. And that's it.

And unlike many other settings, there is nothing in the camera settings in iOS that says in the section for preserving settings that refers to this. So if you go to settings, go to camera, there's a thing of like, hey, which settings do you want me to preserve between launches of the camera? So like you launch the camera and say you change into video mode and then you go to a different app.

And unlike many other settings, there is nothing in the camera settings in iOS that says in the section for preserving settings that refers to this. So if you go to settings, go to camera, there's a thing of like, hey, which settings do you want me to preserve between launches of the camera? So like you launch the camera and say you change into video mode and then you go to a different app.

When you come back to camera, do you want it to still be in video mode or do you just want it always to go back to camera? That's an example of deciding whether you want a setting to be preserved. And Apple provides a whole screen full of these. You want me to preserve the style, the focus, the zoom. You can toggle these on and off.

When you come back to camera, do you want it to still be in video mode or do you just want it always to go back to camera? That's an example of deciding whether you want a setting to be preserved. And Apple provides a whole screen full of these. You want me to preserve the style, the focus, the zoom. You can toggle these on and off.

And so if you've never checked that out, if you're frustrated that every time you launch the camera app, it doesn't remember something or it does remember some other thing, you can change your mind about those. But this shared versus non-shared thing is not in that set of preferences.

And so if you've never checked that out, if you're frustrated that every time you launch the camera app, it doesn't remember something or it does remember some other thing, you can change your mind about those. But this shared versus non-shared thing is not in that set of preferences.

as far as i can tell it's just always remembered so as long as you set that setting and don't change it it will be preserved and you basically have no choice about that you got to be careful especially if it's not your phone that someone doesn't accidentally hit that and change it back to the other thing so there's some amount of vigilance required to make sure you stay on sending everything to shared but this was a great tip i did tried to do the same thing to my wife's camera app and told her about it and said now everything will go into your shared library because occasionally she sends things into the regular library so

as far as i can tell it's just always remembered so as long as you set that setting and don't change it it will be preserved and you basically have no choice about that you got to be careful especially if it's not your phone that someone doesn't accidentally hit that and change it back to the other thing so there's some amount of vigilance required to make sure you stay on sending everything to shared but this was a great tip i did tried to do the same thing to my wife's camera app and told her about it and said now everything will go into your shared library because occasionally she sends things into the regular library so

Set to manual, change the setting in the camera app, and don't worry about the preserve settings because it doesn't apply to this particular thing.

Set to manual, change the setting in the camera app, and don't worry about the preserve settings because it doesn't apply to this particular thing.

So this was a bit of a letdown. We had the rumors of Apple's going to go to JPEG XL and they did add support for JPEG XL in iOS 18 on the iPhone 16s pretty much only and only for their pro raw stuff. So it's not like geek where they said, oh, by the way, all our cameras take photos in a new format by default. And it's this great new format. They didn't say that they didn't talk about it. at all.

So this was a bit of a letdown. We had the rumors of Apple's going to go to JPEG XL and they did add support for JPEG XL in iOS 18 on the iPhone 16s pretty much only and only for their pro raw stuff. So it's not like geek where they said, oh, by the way, all our cameras take photos in a new format by default. And it's this great new format. They didn't say that they didn't talk about it. at all.

But nevertheless, on an iOS 18, on iPhone 16s only, I believe, because when I was on iOS 16 on my 14 Pro, it didn't mention JPEG XL anywhere. So I think it's only on the 16s. It's definitely not on the 14 Pro. I can tell you that. If you go to the formats section of the camera preferences, you will see at the top...

But nevertheless, on an iOS 18, on iPhone 16s only, I believe, because when I was on iOS 16 on my 14 Pro, it didn't mention JPEG XL anywhere. So I think it's only on the 16s. It's definitely not on the 14 Pro. I can tell you that. If you go to the formats section of the camera preferences, you will see at the top...

uh pro default and you you see heath max pro raw 12 megapixel pro raw max up to 18 megapixel and then the next section is pro raw format and your choices are jpeg lossless which they now list as most compatible and then there are two jpeg xl choices lossless and lossy and again that's only for when you're shooting in raw so you can have a lossless raw with jpeg xl or a lossy compressed raw with jpeg xl here's what petapixel had to say about it

uh pro default and you you see heath max pro raw 12 megapixel pro raw max up to 18 megapixel and then the next section is pro raw format and your choices are jpeg lossless which they now list as most compatible and then there are two jpeg xl choices lossless and lossy and again that's only for when you're shooting in raw so you can have a lossless raw with jpeg xl or a lossy compressed raw with jpeg xl here's what petapixel had to say about it

Apple has wrapped JPEG XL photos inside a DNG container, enabling ProRAW files to retain their flexibility while being significantly smaller. What would typically be a 75-ish megabyte ProRAW max file will be a 20 megabyte in lossy ProRAW format using JPEG XL compression, a lossless file still under 50 megabytes. Without compromising quality, these are significant storage savings.

Apple has wrapped JPEG XL photos inside a DNG container, enabling ProRAW files to retain their flexibility while being significantly smaller. What would typically be a 75-ish megabyte ProRAW max file will be a 20 megabyte in lossy ProRAW format using JPEG XL compression, a lossless file still under 50 megabytes. Without compromising quality, these are significant storage savings.