The Squishly blog

AVIF is a modern image format built on the AV1 video codec, often around half the size of a JPG. What it is, which browsers open it, when to use it and its downsides.

WebP for websites, JPG for photos you share, PNG for graphics and screenshots. How much smaller WebP really is, where each format works, and how to convert.

Email photos from your iPhone with Photos, Mail or Gmail, how many fit in one message, and what to do with large photos or a whole album.

Make iPhone photos smaller without installing anything: crop in Photos, share them as JPG, switch the camera format, or shrink a whole batch in Safari.

The real attachment limits for Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and iCloud Mail, why a file under the limit can still bounce, and what to do when yours is too big.

Photo too big to upload or send? Shrink it from megabytes to a few hundred KB in your browser, on Windows, Mac or phone, with no visible loss.

Sent an iPhone photo and the other person couldn’t open it? That’s HEIC. Here’s what it is, why it breaks, and the one-minute fix.

Hit an attachment limit? Here’s the quick, private way to shrink photos so they actually send, and still look great.

An honest look at three popular image compressors — what each does best, and when to reach for which.