Had to take some photos with my iPhone and send them to my personal e-mail account. But when I was about to use them I was hit with a shock: the pics were in something called HEIC format.
I had no idea whatsoever what that meant. Only that it wasn't readable by my usual image software, much less usable for most critical purposes.
So I did some quick research and found that HEIC, or HEIF, stands for High Efficiency Image Container. It was adopted over ten years ago by Apple for use primarily in their mobile devices. But for some reason I'm only now hearing about it.
Basically it makes the same photos that you usually work with as JPEGs and ummm... makes them smaller in file size. Sort of like how we used to compress files with PKZIP back in the day.
If you're reading this, you're probably wondering how to turn HEIC/HEIF off so that you can have your full resolution JPEGs. That's what I'm going to tell you to do.
It's really simple. Go into your iOS devices Settings, and find Camera.
Look for the Formats setting.
Change that from High Efficiency to Most Compatible.
And that's it! Hope this quick tip will help you if you're also confronted with the HEIC hobgoblin :-)
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