Handoff from iPhone Copy photo paste into MacOS Mail is TIFF, not JPG

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Handoff from iPhone Copy photo paste into MacOS Mail is TIFF, not JPG

The photos in the phone are HEIC. When I copy from the iPhone Photos app and, using Handoff, paste into Mail on MacOS, it pastes a TIFF. I want JPG all the time when sending an image, because not every recipient can view TIFF, and TIFF creates unnecessarily large files.

How can I tell Handoff to do the right thing and paste JPG? The only Handoff options appear to be on or off.

iOS 16.6.1, MacOS 12.5.1

MacBook Air Apple Silicon

Posted on Aug 20, 2022 7:57 PM

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Barney-15E

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Aug 21, 2022 7:19 AM in response to rboko

The clipboard has the capability to paste in various file types. It pastes what the receiving program asks for. I'm not sure why it is pulling the TIFF version of the clipboard for Mail. I cannot replicate that problem.

How can I tell Handoff to do the right thing and paste JPG?

I don't think it is Handoff causing the problem, but there isn't really a way to tell Mail to pick the jpeg version of the clipboard, either.

What do you get if you use Preview and choose New from clipboard from the File menu. Cmd-i will show the info pane and you can see what type of file it is.

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rboko Author

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Aug 21, 2022 10:29 AM in response to Barney-15E

This is even more strange. Preview New from Clipboard shows Document type: PNG image.

I immediately opened Mail in MacOS and pasted from the same clipboard - the filename is PastedGraphic-1.tiff

Out of curiosity in Preview I did CMD-A and copied again, then pasted into a new Mail message - it is PastedGraphic-2.tiff

Now I'm more curious. I copied from iPhone Photos app again, pasted into a new Pages document - it is "pasted-image.jpeg"

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Barney-15E

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Aug 21, 2022 1:48 PM in response to rboko

It seems that Mail is requesting the TIFF image instead of the other types. I don't know why and I don't know of a way to change that.

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Handoff from iPhone Copy photo paste into MacOS Mail is TIFF, not JPG

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