JFIF to JPG Knowing and Converting This Format

If you have ever saved 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 images is stored.

In practical terms, a JFIF file is a JPEG photo. The .jfif file type occurs mainly after saving images from certain browsers, particularly when the image comes lacking a specific content-type header.

The .jfif extension started showing to regular users since some browsers — mainly legacy versions of Internet Explorer — save JPEG files with the correct .jfif extension when websites fails to specify the filename.

Fixing this is straightforward: website simply rename the file extension from .jfif to .jpg, or process it with a online converter to produce a standard JPG image. In each case, the picture quality 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 file extension to .jpg.

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