HEIC vs JPEG

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HEIC vs JPEG

It seems at some point Iphone defaulted to saving photos from JPEG to HEIC (is this correct?). I just now realized that since May 2018, our iphone photos were being taken as HEIC and being backed up to google photos as HEIC.

I wonder why apple did not inform or warn us that this change would occur?

We take photos with iphone and back them up with google photos, which we pay monthly for to backup many full resolution photos. Does this mean all the photos we have been taking for the last year have been in a lower HEIC resolution and even if converted to JPEG for viewing on the computer, will still be low resolution?

Also, is there any way to convert all those photos to JPEG at once? We can't open them anywhere except google photos and our iphones without converting them.

iPhone XS, iOS 12

Posted on Jun 19, 2019 3:07 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 19, 2019 7:59 PM in response to DTehrani

Using HEIF or HEVC media on Apple devices - Apple Support

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léonie

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Jun 20, 2019 12:04 AM in response to DTehrani

The HEIC files are using half the file size of the JPEG files, because of a better compression, but the resolution and quality is the same as formerly with JPEG. I have converted most of my old images to HEIC to profit from the better compression and to save storage on my device. The only problem is, that not all platforms or older applications support the new high efficiency format. If you are using your photos in an environment, that does not support HEIC well, you can switch the iPhone to use JPEG instead of HEIC.

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