Google’s new high-quality Ultra HDR photo format is gaining broader support outside of Google Photos, making the company’s best-quality images easier to share. A recent report from TheSpAndroid ...

With Android 14 Google officially announced the support for Ultra HDR to normal JPEG images after they had internally embedded the ability into Google Messages in September. An Ultra HDR image is ...

Google Photos is starting to roll out a new “Ultra HDR” editing option that lets users convert regular photos into Ultra HDR after capture. The feature is reportedly appearing in version ...

It won’t be available to everyone just yet but Google Photos has started rolling out a new feature that lets you turn your normal photos into Ultra HDR images. These “High Dynamic Range” photos ...

Google has introduced what is likely to be one of the biggest photo quality upgrades yet for Android devices — and it’s coming to other devices too. Unveiled at this year’s Google I/O developer ...

Google is updating the Jetpack CameraX library to support capturing Ultra HDR images. Ultra HDR is a new image format introduced in Android 14 that enables saving the SDR and HDR version of an image ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. For almost a year now, Android's Ultra HDR implementation has made editing pictures in Google Photos needlessly annoying.

So our phones shoot amazing HDR photos (not to mention a $5000 monitor to view them on), but neither Preview nor Safari will display them. Safari does HDR video, but not images. Which is doubly weird ...