JPG and JPEG are the same file formats. There is absolutely no distinction between a .jpg photo and a .jpeg photo — both apply the identical JPEG compression standard and save photos in the identical manner.
The sole distinction is entirely in the extension, which is a relic from the early days of computing. The JPEG format was developed in 1992 by the Joint Photographic Experts Group. The Windows operating system launched Windows in the early era, the operating system enforced a check here restriction: file extensions had to be 3 characters.
This forced the 4-character .jpeg extension to be reduced to .jpg for PC users. Mac and Unix systems, not having this three-character restriction, used the full .jpeg file extension from the beginning.
Even though both extensions perform equally in almost every modern software, some situations in which a service might need the .jpeg file type. For these situations, converting from .jpg to .jpeg is sufficient.
No image conversion of image data is necessary — simply changing the extension solves the compatibility concern in most cases.
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