Thanks to the notable improvements that have occurred in the photographic section of mobile phones, we use the camera more, and Xiaomi POCO and Redmi mobiles have an interesting option that will help you These images take up less space.
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It is a format change that will make the images taken by the mobile camera take up less space, and it is a feature that smartphones from other brands have such as iPhones or Samsung mobiles.
The HEIF format may be the solution you need to save space on your mobile, but if not, you can always use applications like Amaze or the file cleaner on your Xiaomi mobile to free up space on your device.
Make your Xiaomi mobile camera photos take up less space
HEIF format
The free Android
Xiaomi has an option in its wide range of settings through which you will be able to take images in HEIF format, whose translated acronym stands for High Efficiency Format Images. To enable it, follow these steps.
- Open the camera and go to its settings.
- Click Format HEIF.
In this way, the images you take with the camera of your Xiaomi mobile will be less heavy, so you can take more photos without fear of running out of storage space.
HEIF format on Xiaomi
The free Android
To check its effectiveness, we took an image in the normal format and another in the HEIF format, and while the normal image weighed 6 MB, the photograph in the optimized format was noticeably less heavy, with 1.69 MB.
Your device will warn you, yes, that there may be some applications that are not compatible with this format, so you must take this into account when sharing them.
Plus it has other downsides like not being able to take dynamic shots or removing the watermark once you’ve taken the photo, but unless you use the dynamic shot feature a lot, It shouldn’t affect you too much in that regard.
