JFIF to JPG Knowing and Converting This Format

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If you have ever downloaded an photo from the web and discovered it saved with a .jfif file extension rather than the usual .jpg, this is common. JFIF — short for JPEG File Interchange Format — is a specification defining how JPEG image data is encoded.

Essentially, a JFIF photo is a JPEG file. The .jfif suffix shows up primarily while saving files from specific browsers, especially if the image was served with no a proper file type header.

The .jfif extension became visible to most people website since some web browsers — particularly previous versions of Internet Explorer — save JPEG files with the proper .jfif extension when the server omits the file name.

The fix is simple: just rename the file extension from .jfif to .jpg, or run it through a conversion tool to produce a standard JPG image. In both cases, the photo content does not change.

The quickest fix is a simple rename. For Windows users, turn on file extension visibility in File Explorer, click the .jfif file, choose Rename and change the extension to .jpg.

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