iOS-supported texture formats
The problem
AR Quick Look reliably supports PNG and JPEG textures. EXR, KTX2, WebP or TIFF textures may render black or crash the viewer on older iOS versions.
The fix
Convert all texture maps to PNG/JPEG before packaging the USDZ.
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