Every now and then you may come across a situation where you will need to reduce the size of your photos whether for convenient sharing on social media or uploading to a site that has a file size limit. That’s where an efficient tool that can cut down the file size without destroying the quality becomes the need of the hour. While reducing the size of images is relatively easy on the desktop, the process isn’t that straightforward on iOS due to the lack of a native tool. But don’t get disheartened as there are quite a few third-party apps that can let you compress photos on your iPhone or iPad without any hassle.
Having tried out a number of photo compression apps, I have found three apps up to the mark – both in terms of reducing the file size of images faster and getting the work done with the needed efficiency.
- Best Photo Compression Apps for iOS
- Compress Photos on iOS Using Photo Compress
Best Photo Compression Apps for iOS
Photo Compress: Very few apps are able to compress images as proficiently as Photo Compress. What’s more, it has a simple interface and reduces file size pretty fast. Apart from handling images, it’s also quite good in terms of reducing the size of videos. You can use it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch running iOS 10.3 or later.
Install: Free (offers in-app purchases)
In this guide, I’m going to use Photo Compress. As steps are pretty much the same for all the three apps mentioned above, you can use any app to shrink your photos.
Now, tap on OK to allow the app to access all of your photos to help it work properly.
Once it has compressed the images, tap on Finish. Now, you can head over to the Photos app to check your compressed images.
So, that’s the way you can shrink the file size of images on your iOS device. As outlined above, these apps are fully equipped to more than just fill up the void. Aside from compressing the images fast, they also do not destroy the quality. Thus, your photos will continue to look good even after the compression.
