HEIC

[jonwilly 771]

I find that I cannot print Photos from my iPhone that have a HEIC tag as opposed to JPEG. Anyone have ideas suggestions.

 

john

[jonwilly 771]

Thank Buddha for a trained PC man.

A friend who was formally trained on PC's by the bank, where he worked, took a look at my problem and advised me to check Photos in settings.

I did this and found I could change to JPEG, problem solved.

I am a complete novice at Mac OS but I would have thought that there would have been some ace on this board.

 

john

[Ex Machina 4]

HEIC is a new image compression format used by Apple - it's more efficient and better quality than JPG.

 

However, it's not yet widely supported, whereas everything and anything can read/process/write JPG.

[jonwilly 771]

Thank you for a serious answer.

 

john

[jonwilly 771]

Help

Since my last upgrade on both my iPad and iPhone there is now no option in Settings-Photo to change from HEIC to JPEG.

I took a photo on my iPad and wanted to send in an email on my iMAC and no go as it's in HEIC.

Mac <deleted> are you doing ?

 

john

[robblok 33,143]

Apple products are so great for using formats that are not generally supported. That is the price to pay for using an apple product.

 

But there are programs that can convert it just look for a HEIC converter. 

 

I ran into this problem when i wanted to print the files at a photoshop. My Samsung phone was ok but the stuff from the Iphone could not be printed. I had to go home and convert it.

 

Pain in the ass but doable. 

 

There are converters online.

[jonwilly 771]

Thank you for a prompt and sensible answer, I have photos of friends infants and I need to make prints.

 

john

[robblok 33,143]

10 minutes ago, jonwilly said:

Thank you for a prompt and sensible answer, I have photos of friends infants and I need to make prints.

 

john

https://heictojpg.com/

 

this should do it

[jonwilly 771]

Much appreciated

 

john. 

[gamb00ler 329]

You can open the pictures in Preview. Press and hold the Option key.  Open the File menu and choose Save as....  Then you can change to JPG format and specify the quality of the new format.

[jonwilly 771]

Thank you. I will try and check out.

Why oh why did Apple go down this route ?

 

john

[Langsuan Man 4,751]

4 hours ago, jonwilly said:

Why oh why did Apple go down this route ?

 

It's called a walled garden so you have to use Apple stuff $$$$$$

[jonwilly 771]

But my stuff is apple apart from my printer.

 

john