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		gsnedders on May 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Students are failing AP tests because the College ... > If you have a webpage that accepts image uploads, is iOS Safari not smart enough to do the same conversion? AIUI, Mobile Safari always re-encodes the image. However, if you transfer the image to a device that supports HEIC (e.g., recent macOS) then you'll find out that (desktop) Safari never re-encodes an image when uploading a file.

oefrha on May 21, 2020 [–]

> (desktop) Safari never re-encodes an image when uploading a file.

Not really: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261216

Images are converted if you select from Photos (instead of the filesystem).

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