[brucethemoose2]

The conspiracy theorist in me says thats a low priority due to perverse incentives (namely selling more storage at a huge markup).

Another rationale is that the Apple ecosystems tends to not use JPEG by default anyway, right? It uses HEIC or something.

[ksec]

Yes but most of images are from Whatsapp messages. And they are JPEG.

[scorpio241]

Apple was always very frugal regarding memory and storage