

HEIC format was introduced by Apple when it released iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra.įor the most part, you wouldn’t realize whether your iPhone is saving pictures in HEIC or JPG until you try to move them to your Mac or share it with your friends on a social media or instant messaging app. HEIC files work best on iPhones but they aren’t widely accepted across the internet and often result in blurry/grainy pictures when shared with non-Apple devices.

HEIC that stands for High-Efficiency Image Containers, can hold more pixel data than PNG or JPG files without taking up much space on your storage.

If you own an iPhone for quite some time, you might have noticed that a ton of pictures you captured off of your phone’s camera is in the HEIC image format.
