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> I can't find a setting to change screen resolution available on my device, or even if it's possible. It looks great though just the way it is out of the box, I don't know the difference either.

This was Samsung I think who launched a phone, bragged about it's resolution, then shipped it with that resolution disabled so they users would get better battery life out the door. Terribly user-unfriendly and a horrible example since users who buy a high end smartphone would expect the phone ship with it's advertised resolution enabled.

> Apple dealt them this card - you're blaming people for not knowing that a single vendor has introduced a new (image) format by default which really...

IMO if you are passing out blame, look squarely at the developers of the web app who failed to create a standards compliant site. If your service is only capable of receiving specific mime types, you specify it on the input element. `accept="image/png, image/jpeg"` If you fail to do so, you will get arbitrary, random file types. If this were a desktop computer, a student might have sent photoshop images or TIFFs. If they'd specified what file formats their web app accepted, the iPhone would have sent JPGs.



Many flagship phones ship this way now, including everything current from Samsung and LG.




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