Instagram now supports Apple ProRAW format

The arrival of iOS 14.3 has brought, in addition to all the news, a new format of photography on the iPhone. It’s Apple ProRAW, a new photo format that this will allow us to edit more professionally the photos we take, and now Instagram has announced that its app is now supported.

At the moment, it is compatible with the iPhone 12 Pro, but It will now be a widely used format by Apple

. The cool thing about Apple’s ProRAW format is that besides holding all the information in a normal RAW image, it also includes data from Apple’s special modes such as Night Mode, Deep Fusion, or Smart HDR. .

Instagram now allows the use of photos in Apple ProRAW format

Tim Johnsen is an Instagram developer and has shared the news on social media. At the moment there are no editing tools in the Instagram app and what the app does is convert ProRAW DNG format to JPEG

to download the photos. Images in ProRAW occupy a large size, approximately 25 MB, then Instagram compresses them for download.

Instagram should be able to handle ProRAW photo sharing from this morning, it may take a little while to catch on.

– Tim Johnsen (@timonus) December 18, 2020

This means that we will need, at least for now, third-party apps to edit photos in Apple ProRAW format

Apple’s own photos app is one of them. Once edited, we can upload them to Instagram and the app will take care of converting them to a suitable format.

It’s an interesting first step, Instagram could include more advanced editing tools in the future to be able to edit ProRAW photos on iPhones.