Safari 16.0 for iOS 16 gains AVIF image format support
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.
Announced following Monday’s release of iOS 16 to the public, the development team behind WebKit detailed some of the changes users can see when they use the new Safari 16.0 release on their Apple devices.Top of the list of changes in Safari 16.0 is support for still images compressed using the AVIF format. Made by the Alliance for Open Media, AVIF is another alternative to standard image formats like JPEG and PNG, which takes advantage of multiple color spaces, lossless and lossy compression, and other features.
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