An HEIC file is an image captured in HEIF (High-Efficiency Image File) format, Apple’s proprietary image file format since the iPhone 11 release in 2017. HEICs outperform JPEGs in many ways. For ...

An HEIC file is an image captured in HEIF (High-Efficiency Image File) format, Apple’s proprietary image file format since the iPhone 11 release in 2017. HEICs outperform JPEGs in many ways.

Before we delve into the conversion process, it’s important to understand what a HEIC file is. HEIC stands for High Efficiency Image Format.

You may also hear about HEIF, which is High-Efficiency Image Format and also used by Apple. In a nutshell, HEIC is what’s used to store HEIF photos and data.

Apple latched onto the high-efficiency image format (HEIF) standard with iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra in 2017, chose HEIC as the file name extension, and has rolled with it for the past four-plus ...

iOS 11 uses new video and photo formats that will help save storage space. And Apple has figured out how to make sure you can use those files on non-iOS 11 devices.

HEIF, which stands for High-Efficiency Image Format, is similar in quality to a JPEG but takes up less space. This file type is also sometimes referred to as HEIC, or High-Efficiency Image Codec.

Apple announced support for the High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) photo format at WWDC in June, a standard that supposedly retains image quality while boasting better compression that results in ...

Microsoft today released two new Windows 10 previews for PCs. Both builds include support for the High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) format, but they diverge from there.

While this release brings some bug fixes, it's main focus is the addition of the High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) to Windows 10 and continuing to resolve bugs in Windows Mixed Reality.