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CTOnews.com, Sept. 13 (Xinhua)-- Apple today launched an official version of iOS 16 to consumers. Major updates include redesigned lock screens, improved notifications and passwords, but there is another relatively small feature worth mentioning. The Safari 16.0 browser released with iOS 16 now finally supports images in AVIF format.

AVIF is an image format such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP. It was developed by the Open Media Alliance and its members include Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung and Tencent.

CTOnews.com learned that AVIF provides many features, such as lossy and lossless compression and a variety of color spaces. The main benefit for end users is that it can significantly save bandwidth utilization, which will also lead to better performance when browsing the web.

Although Microsoft Edge does not support AVIF images at all, Chrome has supported it since desktop version 85 and Android version 97. Similarly, Firefox support has been active in this area since the release of version 93 last year.

Now, Safari 16.0 on Apple iOS 16 can also process AVIF images, and macOS 13 Ventura and iPadOS 16 will be supported next month. It is hoped that this latest addition will also push Microsoft to invest more efforts in this area.

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