What is HEIC?
HEIC (often from iPhone cameras) packs efficient HEIF/HEVC stills. It keeps high visual quality at small sizes, but desktop and web support is uneven, so people often convert HEIC to JPG or PNG.
HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) is best for iPhone photo workflows that need a widely supported export. Extensions: .heic, .heif. MIME: image/heic, image/heif. Can be used as input. Input only.
Common uses
- Photos from recent iPhones and iPads
- Keeping camera originals compact before sharing
- Converting phone photos for Windows, email, or the web
Things to know
- Many browsers and apps cannot open HEIC without extra codecs
- Formatly can decode HEIC but does not encode HEIC
- Orientation is baked in on decode
- HEIC orientation is always baked in on decode; Auto-orient cannot be turned off for HEIC.
- Formatly converts HEIC in your browser. Files are not uploaded.
Formatly can open HEIC and export to JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, ICO, PDF.