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Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

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mywittyname ◴[21 May 20 18:19 UTC] No.23262582[source]▶
I think this is on Apple more than anyone. They have the attitude that it's okay to break long-standing traditions for the sake of pushing society into the future. Apple users seem to be a-okay with this attitude, so I'm not surprised that it has eventually come to kick users in the ass.

The three years or so that they've been using the format by default is not enough time to catch up. I know this is the first I've heard of HEIC, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Apple should default to sending a jpeg in situations where it cannot confirm support of newer formats. Maybe this means jpegs remain the default interchange format indefinitely, but so what? They are Good Enough for most cases.

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1. markkanof ◴[21 May 20 18:25 UTC] No.23262668[source]▶
Agreed. My company builds text messaging tools and we recently had to add support for HEIC images. Not a huge deal, but we only had to do it at all because we started seeing a few errors with users messages where a HEIC image was being sent in from an iPhone and we didn't have support for that format. It turns out that iOS will send a JPEG when sending an MMS message to avoid this compatibility issue. Except, in the cases where iOS doesn't send the JPEG and instead sends the HEIC. I'm not entirely sure what causes this but it seems to happen occasionally.