It’s commonly used as a method for image compression, especially for digital photography. JPG (or JPEG) is one of the original standardized image formats. However, a downside of this new photo format is that many programs, along with any Windows operating system, does not support this file format yet. It means that any sunset photos taken now will retain their original vividness, unlike the old JPEG format which reduces the quality of the image due to the 8-bit capacity. That will save a load of memory space on your Apple devices.Īnother feature of HEIC is that it also supports 16-bit deep color images, which is a game-changer for iPhone photographers. The reason why Apple started to use this new file format is that it has a high-compression rate while retaining the original quality of the images.īasically, when a JPEG image takes 4 MB of your phone’s memory, a HEIC image will only take about half of that. HEIC stands for High Efficiency Image Coding, which is Apple’s version of the HEIF image format.
Method 2: Use an Online Conversion Tool.
