High Efficiency Image Container (HEIC) is the format name Apple selected for the new HEIF standards, but HEIC isn't solely a format ; it is a container for images, audio, and other information which employs advanced compression techniques to generate files with high image quality and smaller size than the JPEG alternative.
Questions tagged [heic]
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Viewer for HEIF/HEIC images in El Capitan or Sierra
Is there any "native way" to view the new HEIF/HEIC format (or the viewer-application) in El Capitan or Sierra without upgrade of MacOS itself? It is not yet possible to upgrade yet to HighSierra for me, but I'd like to natively view images from…
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Force airdrop images to be JPEG not HEIC
If i airdrop a photo from my iPhone (iOS 12.4.1) to my MacBook (OSX 10.3.6)the photo arrives as a .HEIC which some other programmes dont reconise.
Is it possible to get airdrop to send .JPG / .JPEG files instead ?
Im aware i could convert the…
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Quick and easy way to batch convert multiple HEIC to png or jpg on macOS?
Is there a quick and easy way to convert many HEIC files to png on macOS?
Example
Suppose we take some live photos on iPhone, airdrop them to MacBook, and we want to upload them to a site that only accepts .png files.
I've noticed if you simply…
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Why is the .HEIC suffix sometimes uppercase and sometimes lowercase
I just took five pictures on an iPhone 11 and then AirDropped them to my Mac Mini. I noticed that every other image has the file extension .HEIC in uppercase.
I am pretty sure that I have noticed this before, only just today thought to ask about it.…
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Is there any way to reliably get rid of the caches in com.apple.MediaLibrary safely?
I found >10 GB of files inside a folder on my internal drive. It comprised of photos and videos which I recognized from my system photo library (which is synced with my iCloud Photo…
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Odd Frame Rate 29.68 fps in Live Photos
Why 29.68 fps?
Is it possible to set up a 30 fps or 29.97 fps frame rate for Live Photos?
The problem is a video part of Live Photos in iPhone X in iOS 11.3 uses quite strange variable frame rate – 29.68 fps, that is not suitable for editing…
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How to convert photos from heic into jpg?
On ios devices photos are stored in heic. I turned on the option to "send originals", so when I send a photo from my phone to my mac, it is in heic format. The conversion is only necessary once in a while when some website requires jpg-format. For…
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Is there any way to have macOS Photos bulk convert all of my past JPEG images to HEIC format?
I’ve seen lots of tutorials online explaining how to convert iOS HEIC files to JPEGs but I can’t seem to find any easy way to bulk convert existing JPEG photos to HEIC?
The reason being is I really like HEIC as a storage format: It easily makes…
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How to get the original HEIC file out of iCloud Photos on the web?
I take photos on iPhone with HEIC image support.
How can I get the original HEIC file from iCloud Photos on the web, when browsing on Windows?
I'm using Firefox on Windows 10. When I download a single photo from https://www.icloud.com/#photos
that…
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Making my own HEIF/HEIC files
I've been looking around for a while for a way to start packing image bytestreams into HEIF files, since macOS High Sierra and and iOS 11 are now out. Haven't had much luck, just large numbers of people converting .heic files to .jpg, and the Nokia…
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Why can't Preview Export 16-bit HEIC images?
When I open a Nikon RAW .NRW file (16-bit image) with Preview, and select "File > Export...", when the Format setting is set to HEIC, the Depth option for "16 Bits/Channel" is grayed out. Why? I can export as PNG or TIFF with 16-bit depth, so why…
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How can I stop my iPhone camera roll pictures from converting to .heic format when sent using iMessages?
I’m using iPhone 13 pro max on iOS 15.4.1. I have camera formats setting on “most compatible”. When I take a picture with iPhone, the picture is in .jpeg format. However when I share the same pictures via iMessage, they are being converted to…
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Slow HEIC Viewing on Mac
When viewing HEIC images with QuickLook from Finder on my MacBook Pro (2019) there is always a slight delay of almost a second. Other formats (jpg/png) work just fine.
When viewing the images in Photos they show up instantly.
Can this be fixed?
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How do I delete thousands of .jpg files, each a duplicate of a .heic file?
I was shooting photos/videos with an iPhone 8 and syncing using macOS iTunes & Photos on High Sierra.
For a period of two years, I have somehow ended up with a duplicate of every photo—several thousand duplicates.
Each duplicated photo is in two…
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Why are iPhone X photos higher quality than iPhone 7?
My relative has an iPhone X, while I have both an iPhone 7, and a DSLR camera.
At a recent family event I compared his photos with mine and his iPhone X photos look almost as good as DSLR. I did a quick Google search but couldn't find an obvious…
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