# Does PrivacyNotes change or compress my images?

Yes. Both settings are on by default because we love our users: we want you to save storage space and keep your privacy. Space saver shrinks a large image to fit 2048 pixels and saves it as JPEG at 85% quality, which keeps all the detail a screen can show. Remove location data strips the EXIF metadata a camera writes into a photo, including the GPS location, before the image is saved. Both apply to every image in the app: pasted into a note, added as a file, or imported.

Turn either off under **Settings > Images**, where contact photos have a third switch that keeps them at 512 pixels. The settings apply to new images only; files that are not images are stored exactly as they are. HEIC and TIFF images are converted to JPEG, because only Safari can show them. A backup you restore is written back byte for byte.

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Source: https://privacynotes.app/help/image-quality