Some Android 15 phones will be forced to shoot in Ultra HDR by default

Google is requiring that some phones running Android 15 will have to take photos in Ultra HDR using the main rear and front-facing cameras.

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Only high end phones for now. Google could just add support for jpeg xl
- Like the other commenter said, Google is actively dropping support for JXL in favour of their own WebP, and despite it performing worse than JXL in every single test, JXL doesn't pay royalties to Google.
  
  Isn't jxl royalty free?
- They're actively doing the opposite by removing support in chrome
  
  I know...
Try Open Camera, you can choose all the settings you want manually.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/ (also available on the Play store)
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  Not sure what happened, I deleted my comment almost immediately after posting it, and it seemed to still appear so I edited it. Maybe my client is bugged

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