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nelsonmay Author

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heic to jpeg conversion weird thing going on

I am trying to batch convert iPhone 14 photos to a smaller size to give to people that don't have support for heic monitors. I don't know what I did in the past, but my photos are showing up as a .jpeg in photos on my Mac mini. I think there is some pre conversion going on that I don't know about. I can't use the HEIC converter app now. Even when my pics are jpegs, they are still a little blown out with the .heic codec. I want to run them though a batch in photoshop to don't some correcting and down converting.

Before I do that, how do I get my images to remain as .heic in my photos library? I want to keep that format for the originals before I delete them from the cloud.

P.S. Rather than batch in photoshop, can photos do color correcting, auto: tone, contrast and color: and downsize so I do't have to leave the photos app?

Thanks.

iPhone 14

Posted on May 27, 2023 8:51 AM

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léonie

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Posted on May 27, 2023 9:30 AM

There is a Setting on your iPhone in the Settings > Photos > Transfer to Mac or PC section, way down at the bottom of the Setting. If this is set to "Automatic", your photos will be automatically converted to JPEGs, when you download them to a Mac or PC using a USB connection. See the last paragraph here: Using HEIF or HEVC media on Apple devices - Apple Support

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