The latest Apple iPhone camera format has a more efficient algorithm for storing image information in less space. Unfortunately, unless you work regularly in the Apple environment – MacBook, IPad, IPhone – the format may be unviewable. These are hopefully temporary growing-pain for this new efficient image format as more and more photography programs accept the new format. In the meantime, there are several workarounds to work with or convert HEIC to JPG:
- HEIC to JPG (for Windows, free) https://www.copytrans.net/copytransheic/
I find converting the HEIC to JPG to be one of the easiest solutions and this free utility makes it pretty easy to convert multiple heic to jpg photos. - In Windows 10/11, you can convert a HEIC by viewing the photo in Windows Photo, usually accessed by double-clicking the heic file. You may need to install Microsoft Window’s free file extension:
then click the … in the upper right corner and ‘save as’
then select ‘jpg’. This is easy but if you are doing more than one photo, you’ll have to repeat the process for each image.
- Microsoft Windows Store has a bunch of free and paid apps that will convert HEIC to JPG if you want more features:
Google ‘HEIC to JPG’ and there are plenty of articles that explain many ways to convert HEIC to JPG. I ended up changing my iPhone image format to JPG to eliminate the need to do the conversion since I post many photos online. Once HEIC works with WordPress and browsers, it will become my format of choice. But unitl then, the space savings of the new format are not compelling enough to add the inconvenience of the conversion step.
Googled “HEIC to JPG’ articles: How-To-Geek Article & Tom’s Guide Article