I was wondering whether HEVC/HEIC works on iPhone models 6s and earlier? I've seen it listed in some places that HEVC only works on iPhone 7.
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HEVC/HEIC iOS 11
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For HEIC you need to have an A9 chip or greater. So the lowest possible hardware is iPhone 6S/6S Plus, iPhone SE and iPad (2017).
For HEVC its a little more complicated:
See: http://alex4d.com/notes/item/notes-on-apple-hevc-and-heif-from-wwdc17
Partial support for video (HEVC):
Only some iOS and macOS devices will have HEVC hardware encode support, but all Macs that run macOS Sierra today will be able to encode in software.
http://alex4d.com/images/alex4dNotes/hevc4.jpg
http://alex4d.com/images/alex4dNotes/hevc2.jpg
For HEVC its a little more complicated:
See: http://alex4d.com/notes/item/notes-on-apple-hevc-and-heif-from-wwdc17
Partial support for video (HEVC):
Only some iOS and macOS devices will have HEVC hardware encode support, but all Macs that run macOS Sierra today will be able to encode in software.
http://alex4d.com/images/alex4dNotes/hevc4.jpg
http://alex4d.com/images/alex4dNotes/hevc2.jpg