Apple Photos can handle heic/heif files for images. My Fuji X-T5 produces 10bit heic files, which can be imported into photos and viewed. However, pictures taken in portrait mode are not rotated in the grid view. Opening them in detail view shows them in correct rotation after a couple of seconds. Also rotating them with cmd+r takes up to 20 seconds.
Anybody else has similar issues? Or a possible solution?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.1
Unfortunately, the rotation change does not persist. You will find that after a while, the orientation is wrong again. The bug is very persistent. I can't think of a workaround, so please report this to Apple to make them aware of the severity.
Unfortunately, the rotation change does not persist. You will find that after a while, the orientation is wrong again. The bug is very persistent. I can't think of a workaround, so please report this to Apple to make them aware of the severity.
Sony A7C II user here. I recently purchased my camera and encountered the same frustrating problem. The solution that I found is to change the extension from HIF/HEIF to HEIC prior to importing the images into your Photos library, and then the problem does not occur. The extension change does not require any special tool; it's just a "renaming" in Finder. To speed things up, I use a basic shell script to rename files in a folder and replace HIF/HEIF with HEIC.
I noticed the same thing when importing HEIF files from a Sony a6700. When viewing an individual photo, the orientation is correct, but in the grid view all portrait images are rotated clockwise.
Portrait photos are shown with a portrait (standing) frame. But the actual preview is rotated, giving the photo a weird crop.
The only workaround I found is to manually select all portrait photos and press ⌘+R 4 times. I sure hope this will be fixed soon!
You can send bug reports here:
They won't respond directly to you, but apparently they do read the comments.
Update: this bug applies to macOS 14.2.1 as well as iOS 17.2.1. What's the best way to file a bug report?
Found a faster workaround: press ⌥⌘R, ⌘R to rotate and rotate back. This resets the orientation. No quick way to select all portrait photos in a smart album though, that would have been helpful.
Wow, Ruthen1um-- that seems like a great find! You should let Apple know. Send feedback, here:
Did I understand you correctly? Is the filename extension really "HIF/HEIF", with a "/" in the middle the extension? That is a very bad choice a filename on a unix system, as the "/" has a special meaning in a pathname. Or do you mean that the extension is either "HIF" or "HEIF"?
Thanks for the clarification. You may want to send a bug report to Sony as well. Perhaps it is not just the extension "HEIF" that is causing the problems but some content inside the HEIF container as well.
It's there to mean either HIF or HEIF, of course 🙂
This is the solution! I batched changed the extensions to .HEIC and it works flawlessly now.
Apple photos rotation issues with 10bit heif
