iPhone .heic photos

[Wombat]

I copied some photos off my iPhone via usb cable to my laptop yesterday and they are now .heic format rather than jpg. The website doesn’t support that as an image format. Is it something that can be added?

 

[Clive]

I copied some photos off my iPhone via usb cable to my laptop yesterday and they are now .heic format rather than jpg. The website doesn’t support that as an image format. Is it something that can be added?

will look into it

 

[milkloss]

It gets complicated but heic isn’t really supported by windows. You can download a codec to open them and third party software is available to work in the background and convert them. They are a way of combining multiple photos in one file .... live pictures.... similar to a gif. They are handled and shared much better via Apple products rather then on a pc as all the conversion etc is sorted ‘in house’ and you don’t have to do anything.

 

[Campbell]

Just discovered this file change on a new Samsung. So far not managed to resolve the change to jPEG format.

 

[Wombat]

Just discovered this file change on a new Samsung. So far not managed to resolve the change to jPEG format.

I had to email them to myself from the iphone then it saved them as jpgs, the only way i could find to get them off. (don;t use itunes on the computer) so not sure if that would do the iphone ones

 

[Cowabunga]

Easily sorted if you want to shoot jpeg on your iPhone. Just tap your Settings icon, then scroll down to Camera, the the first tab is Formats. Tap on that and change from High Efficiency to Most Compatible and Bob's your uncle you are saving jpegs once more.

If you upload from a Mac then Export a HEIC image from Photos to a suitable folder as a High Quality Medium JPEG. I use a folder named Export2012. And use the attach file tab at the bottom of the text box to upload. It's taken me literally 30 seconds to do that for this image which is a HEIC in Photos

 

[Cowabunga]

Here’s a heic

This one was posted directly from my iPad. On my iPad it is a HEIC which was downloaded in high res from iCloud when I opened its thumbnail, still a HEIC. Bear with me...

All I did to upload it here directly from my iPad was to Copy the image in Photos using the Export icon at the top of the opened photo and then held my finger in the text box above and Paste. It automatically converted to a JPEG of the appropriate size. I did absolutely nothing more than Export, Copy tab and then Paste in the box I typed this post. Can't get simpler than that.

 

[Cowabunga]

Of course I could do the same directly from the original HEIC on the iPhone. I only shoot HEIC on the iPhone nowadays. Just saying, in case it isn't obvious.

Fairly sure that on a Mac or iPad you could have Photos occupying half the screen and TFF on the other, that you could just drag and drop a photo from one to the text box of the other, but I haven't tried this to confirm.

 

[Cowabunga]

Doing and posting this using iPhone using copy and paste.

 

[Cowabunga]

It gets complicated but heic isn’t really supported by windows. You can download a codec to open them and third party software is available to work in the background and convert them. They are a way of combining multiple photos in one file .... live pictures.... similar to a gif. They are handled and shared much better via Apple products rather then on a pc as all the conversion etc is sorted ‘in house’ and you don’t have to do anything.

Not really. HEIC is a much more efficient yet no more lossy photo compression file format. No more. No less. Live Photos or composites are basically a fast burst which are saved as a short video which jpeg is incapable of doing.