Video-streaming giant Netflix has released an update to a new image file format called AVIF, or AV1 Image File Format, which it believes can be a superior replacement to the 27-year-old JPEG ...

Starting with Windows 10 Insider build 18305, Microsoft has started to add support for the AVIF image format. This support is first being added to Microsoft Paint and File Explorer, but can be ...

In the past six months, Discord’s Media Infrastructure team has modernized our image pipeline by adding support for animated WebP and AVIF formats. You can now share animated WebP and AVIF content ...

Pixelmator Pro has a version 3.1 update that adds support for macOS Ventura and the AVIF file format. Other updates include a new, faster document-opening experience, and an all-new smooth corner ...

Google announced that images in the AVIF file format will now be eligible to be shown in Google Search and Google Images, including all platforms that surface Google Search data. AVIF will ...

AVIF photos can be a lot smaller than JPEGs. In this comparison, the AVIF is 95% smaller than the original compared to just 63% for JPEG compression. The AVIF file format, which has already been ...

iOS and macOS have actually supported the open AVIF format for years. However, the implementation in the Messages app is still broken. AVIF is actually a common image format: the open specification ...

Safari 16.0 has been released for Apple's ecosystem, with the latest version of the browser for iOS 16 now able to open AVIF images ahead of similar support in macOS Ventura and iPadOS. Top of the ...