The advice is saving the JPG images to the cloud drives because it is the most popular image format so far. Because data in the cloud drives are often shared, HEIC images might not be read by the recipient. Network drives like Google Drive and Dropbox receive HEIC files and let you easily view them online. Why Apple choose it as the new image format? That’s because HEIC pictures saved half of the space on iPhone compared with JPG pictures.Īlthough it is the excellent High Efficiency Image File Format, it is still not supported on all the platform. HEIC is a relatively new format and hasn’t been supported on Windows, macOS Sierra 10.12 or earlier, Android, or iOS 10 or earlier. There is nothing different between HEIC images and JPG images until you export them to Windows computer. Some iPhone users have found that iPhone photos have been saved as HEIC files, not JPG files as before. Do I need to convert the HEIC images into JPG images? If so, how can I do this? They can’t be viewed so I’m afraid that someone could not view the photos if I send the photos to him. I would like to send my iPhone photos from PC to Dropbox, but I have seen the HEIC file extension on my every photo.

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