Hello Everyone!

This is the first #TechTidbit (previously known by the more formal “technological tidbit” phrase) in a very long time. I’ve shortened the phrasing from 7 to 3 syllables, because it just sounds catchy-er to say “tech tidbit.” Shorthand is a focus these days, with all the acronyms, hashtags, abbreviations. I digress.

I’m working today on some #BookVideosEDU for next year’s first week of school library (that’s a whole process I’ll explain later, which is pretty awesome, if I do say so myself 😉). I have the photos of the books taken with my school iPad and was trying to import them to Google Slides so each photo is on its own slide. Out of 25 photos for a particular picture book, only three actually imported using the Slides Toolbox add-on in Google Slides.

The three photos that did import were not original images. I had edited them some in a specific way, so the original image was replaced. When looking at the three compared to the other 22 photos for the book, I noticed a difference between formats: three were in the typical JPEG file format, while the rest were .heic (which I learned is a high efficiency format for IOS).

I found that JPEGmini has a conversion website that will change the HEIC to JPEG format for five images at a time online for free without keeping any of the images. I downloaded a 30-day free trial of the software so I can convert 200 images in bulk, so I’m now able to change the photos I’ve already taken for three other picture books a book at a time, instead of only five images at a time. Much faster!

So, having fixed the problem I was having with one book and proactively fixing all the photos for the next three books, I was thinking:

There has to be a way to change what format my iPad takes photos in, so this isn’t a chronic thing of needing to convert photos all the time.

Turns out, with a little Googling, I found what I needed deep within the labyrinth know as the Settings of an iPad! 😀

#TechTidbit: Change iPad Camera Capture Format

1. Go to Settings on the iPad; scroll to the “Camera” category.
2. Choose the “Formats” tab.
3. Change the “Camera Capture” format from
   “High Efficiency” to “Most Compatible”
4. Close Settings. It’s often a good idea to restart the iPad to make sure the change took effect.

Note: it seems you don’t get to know what format a photo on the iPad is in until you try to upload it somewhere, like into Google Drive where file format extensions are visible.

Here’s a screenshot of what the above steps are talking about:

Note (again): The changing of the default to JPEG format for photos taken with the camera does not extend to screenshots taken on the iPad; they’ll be in PNG format; don’t ask me why.

Hope this #TechTidbit is useful!

Happy RLGing! 📚🤔🦋