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Written by Mike Druttman
Fact checked by Nick Zelver
Updated Mar, 2024

A variety of photographic formats including the most widely used standard photography JPG format can be tracked on a targeted device with mSpy. For example, it supports PNG, GIF, BMP, WEBP and HEIF files that includes transparent images to animated gifs or high-efficiency file types in modern smartphones.

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How It Started

My interest was aroused by the fact that I wanted to learn many things about how photos are monitored by MSpy. Among its offerings as a spy app and parental control software is a striking one: access to all photos on another device without touching it remotely. I thought this app could be the answer whether it’s just a picture of everyday life or something more serious like age-postponed content.

I am curious about how well it would follow up these digital footprints because of their precise timestamps and easy access. This research aimed at establishing the magnitude of photo monitoring capabilities under msPY and implications thereof concerning parental control.

Types of photos monitored by mSpy
File Type Finame Extension
Joint Photographic Experts Group JPG, JPEG
Portable Network Graphics PNG
Graphics Interchange Format GIF
Bitmap Image File BMP
WebP WEBP
High Efficiency Image Format HEIF

During my exploration into mSpy’s capabilities for tracking photos several prominent features became evident. The first and perhaps most remarkable characteristic is total accessibility to every picture deployed on the target phone. Furthermore, this attribute does not only apply to pictures taken with the phone, but any other image which may have been downloaded or received too. By providing such level of penetration into your mobile-phone there is hardly any photograph that can go unnoticed hence gives an insight into what you see.

 

Types of Image Formats

When discussing mSpy’s capability as an image monitoring tool, it is important to discuss its compatibility with various image formats available in use today. I also discovered that among others there are popular formats supported by this program that also has their own peculiarities and common uses.

  • JPG (or JPEG): This format is commonly used specifically for photographs captured through smartphones; thus makes its popularity widespread among users. The fact that they offer a balance between file compression and great images as well as being suited to everyday photography makes JPG the most used format. This ability of mSpy to monitor JPG files is very relevant since it is likely that this format will occupy the largest space in any typical smartphone’s photo gallery.
  • PNG: This app can also track PNG formats. On the other hand, PNG files are often used for images with transparencies such as logos or graphic designs. Unlike jpg, they provide lossless data compression meaning every time a file is opened and saved it does not get its quality interfered with.
  • GIF: These are among those programs which could be monitored by this application due to their animated nature. Such files are widely-used for short, looping animations, and are popular meme and simple animations formats on social media platforms.
  • BMP: Bitmap image format creates high-quality images at the expense of large-sized files and this type of file while less common in modern smartphones is still searchable by mSpy.
  • WEBP: It was invented by Google relatively recently as a new format for web use with effective compression and retention of quality. As it helps to reduce load times and save bandwidth more websites now use it for various photos online.
  • HEIF: High Efficiency Image File Format is a technology that has been adopted on new iPhones. It is also known for its effective compression which allows for good quality images with smaller file sizes compared to JPG.

By monitoring all these different image formats, mSpy ensures it covers all the types of images commonly found on smartphones. Given how wide-ranging image types can be among people, especially youngsters, this ability becomes particularly essential for them to have. This app’s photo monitoring features are made more efficient by knowing that things like everyday photography mostly use JPG format.

 

Personal Takeaways

After trying out the mSpy photo monitoring feature, I can say that I found it to be quite diverse. Its capability of accessing any photograph taken through the phone even those containing adult content was amazing and yet intimidating at the same time. These timestamps had so much information in them that was very important. However, it requires actual access before setting up and it can be misused by non-parents too. Apart from this one issue, the application perfectly monitored various types of media files on smartphones such as JPEGs etc.

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