So now, you can enable support and open HEIF and HEVC files on Windows 10. However, if you happen to be a macOS user and want a way to convert HEIF images to JPEG, here’s how using Automator.

While there are a number of third-party apps that let you convert HEIC to JPG format, you can convert these files on the iPhone itself, without having to download any apps at all.

An HEIC file is an image captured in HEIF (High-Efficiency Image File) format, Apple’s proprietary image file format since the iPhone 11 release in 2017. HEICs outperform JPEGs in many ways.

What's the difference between HEIF and JPEG? The JPEG is the long-standing file format champ for photos, but the relatively new HEIF has a few advantages.

Apple's newest iPhone software attempts to move the world out of the JPEG era. CNET decodes the technology.

Apple announced support for the High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) photo format at WWDC in June, a standard that supposedly retains image quality while boasting better compression that results in ...