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Google explains why videos sent from iPhones look so terrible

Posted on August 29, 2022 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

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By Brian Livingston

Visuals sent from iPhones and iPads via iMessage are seriously degraded, sometimes unrecognizably so, when received on Android phones — and even sometimes on other iPhones. This is because Apple refuses to support a common tech standard, according to a new public effort by Google.

You may be surprised to learn that some very solid Mac users are the first to complain about Apple’s garbling of their multimedia files.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.35.0, 2022-08-29).

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