The pictures shot using your iPhone’s camera capture an incredible amount of detail. This also means they carry a decent amount of file size. Sometimes users run into a problem when they need to upload an image to an official document and the image exceeds the stipulated file size. Luckily, there are several ways you can compress an image and bring its size down to a desirable limit. In this article, we bring you the top 6 methods to reduce the photo file size on an iPhone.
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Crop the image in the Photos app
The easiest way to reduce the size of an image is by cropping it ever so slightly in the Photos app on your iPhone. This will alter the image resolution by a tiny amount but the size of your image will be reduced significantly. To crop an image, open it in the Photos app and select the Edit option at the bottom of the screen. Tap on Crop/Rotate and use the frame to slightly crop the image.
Change the image format in the iPhone Camera settings
Changing the image format from JPEG to HEIF (High-Efficiency Image Format) will help reduce the file size of the resulting image. The JPEG format stores a lot of information which can lead to a bloated file size. On the other hand, the HEIF format offers a lower file size without compromising the quality of the image. Here’s how you can switch to the HEIF format.
Step 1: Open Settings on your iPhone and select Camera.
Step 2: Tap on Formats.
Step 3: Select ‘High Efficiency’.
Use a third-party app
There are several third-party apps on the App Store that will help you resize your images. ‘Image Size’ is one of the highly rated apps for this purpose. Once you’ve installed the app on your iPhone, open it and load the image you want to resize. Now you can resize the image by pixels, inches, mm, cm, or any other metric. Save the image once you’re happy with the result. The saved image will have a significantly less file size than the original image.
Send the image to yourself on WhatsApp
Instant Messengers like WhatsApp automatically downsize the images you send on the platform. This is done to increase the speed and reduce the storage space. While some may see it as a flaw, it can come in handy if you want to reduce the file size of an image. WhatsApp also recently launched the ‘Message Yourself’ feature. You can use this function to send yourself the images you want to downsize. Simply select your name from the contacts and attach and send the images you want.
Use Apple Mail to compress images
While you may not have a say in downsizing the images when sending them through an instant messenger, Apple Mail lets you choose a particular file size before you attach the image to your mail. This is helpful because it gives you three options for the file size: Small, Medium, and Large. You can mail the image to yourself via the Photo app. All you need to do is tap on the share icon and select ‘Mail’. Once the mail has been sent you can download the resized image from the Mail app.
Use an online tool
There are several online tools you can use to reduce the file size of any image. Img2Go is one of the most popular online compression tools. Here’s how you can use it.
Step 1: Open https://www.img2go.com/ on a mobile web browser.
Step 2: Select ‘Compress Image’.
Step 3: Tap on ‘Choose file’ to select the image you want to resize. This image will be uploaded to the website’s servers. Apart from your iPhone’s local storage, you can also choose an image from Google Drive or Dropbox.
Step 4: Choose the image quality you want for the resulting image. If you want to compress the image to the lowest possible size, there will be some loss in quality.
Step 5: Select ‘Start’.
Step 6: Tap on ‘Download’ to save the resized image.
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Conclusion
These are the 6 simple ways you can reduce a photo’s file size on an iPhone. While some methods may lower the image quality, the changes won’t be significantly noticeable. If you are resizing an image to upload on an official document, any of these methods will work just fine. Do you have a go-to method when it comes to compressing the images on your phone? Let us know in the comments!
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