burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Why is it work? The energy people spend flipping out over stuff like this should be redirected toward a solution (starting with research into HEIC on Windows or JPEG on iPhones).

Google is your friend.

b top gun

Why is it work? Because last year's images from that exact iPhone on another weeklong road trip were JPEGs, I just checked a few. Knowing the owner of the iPhone as I do, she is not one to make changes like going from JPEG to HEIC; both of us are technologically challenged. I personally have the cell phone I do because it is what my granddaughter, her mother and her aunt have so I get free tech support, and it is definitely NOT an Apple product. My friend has that iPhone because it is what her daughter insisted she have. If you want to kneel at the altar of Apple that is your choice; I choose to avoid anything Apple. Eventually I will go through the hundreds of her iPhone images, select the best of the best, then deal with converting for editing as needed.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

Walgreens will accept HEIC. They won’t accept TIFF.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

That is a sensible explanation to me. But, wow did you stir up a hornet's net from the Apple Fans. We all have choices and opinions.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

It’s fine to have opinions but to rail at Apple, or any company, because of his own shortcomings.

neillaubenthal

Wah Wah Wah. This is a simple issue to solve as noted in other replies. I'm happy that you don't like Apple…I don't happen to like Android or Microsoft but I keep that to myself and actually recommend both of them depending on what a questioner's needs, wants, and familiarity are. Apple has been proudly going out of business since 1984.

Apple has a lot of issues…even their users will mostly admit that…but the truth of the matter is that their stuff just works better for those users than some other brand. As others have noted…google is your friend and google knows everything…but some people just can't be bothered to see if there is a real problem because it's better in their mind to blame Apple. Somehow…if Apple made crap I don't think they would have achieved the largest market cap at over $3 trillion.

What a whiner.

neillaubenthal

If you replace the word vent with the word whine…you'll be right on target:-)

neillaubenthal

Absolutely…they make a lot of what many people believe are mistakes and are a little too focused on not letting the user modify anything beyond specific Apple approved options…but that's pretty small potatoes compared to the fact that for the most part their stuff just works better more of the time than the other kinds of software an hardware…and for the better overall security, walled garden, fewer vectors to attack, and fewer virus/malware/trojanware/whateverware things to worry about.

griffzky

I had that problem with some images a friend wanted me to do some post processing on. I googled, software to convert heic to jpeg, downloaded it, and was able to work on the resulting jpegs.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Setting the iPhone to “most compatible” yields JPEGs.

I use ‘gimp’, which can accept “HEIC” as inputs and can deliver JPEGs as outputs.