heic to jpg

currently taking photos on my ipad and then transferring to pc desktop but they are in heic format and nothing opens them -- what is the best free way to convert them to jpg format
Thanks for any help   

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  • pogofish
    pogofish Posts: 10,853 Forumite
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    Affinity includes HEIC support and automation - I think you can get a free trial of that.

    You can also switch HEIC off in the settings and it reverts to JPEG.
  • Tiexen
    Tiexen Posts: 740 Forumite
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    I work in the printing industry and HEIC files really threw me - I couldn't figure out why suddenly the pictures customers were emailing in woudn't open in Photoshop had to buy a copy of Affinity Photo to open and resave.


  • thanks for the replies, managed to change formats and changed settings back to jpeg photos. just normal family photos and do not notice any change in quality
  • Ant555
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    Tiexen said:
    I work in the printing industry and HEIC files really threw me - I couldn't figure out why suddenly the pictures customers were emailing in woudn't open in Photoshop had to buy a copy of Affinity Photo to open and resave.



    After an August update to my Samsung mobilemy photos defaulted to saving in this format without me realising (I am sure it was tucked away somewhere in the release notes) .  I have now changed it but can see that up to one day in August, all my pics are jpg and then the day after the update all my pics are .heic

    I have now set back to jpg.
  • neilmcl
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    Must be a newish thing. Yesterday I tried to convert a WEBP image file in paint and the first option it gave me was heic rather than jpeg.
  • Jenni_D
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    I was reading up on this earlier and it seems Apple introduced HEIC in IOS11, so back in 2017 I think. However it's certainly not "mainstream" ... or wasn't until very recently. :) 
    Jenni x
  • pogofish
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    neilmcl said:
    Must be a newish thing. Yesterday I tried to convert a WEBP image file in paint and the first option it gave me was heic rather than jpeg.
    IIRC it became the default format with the iPhone 8 and later models.

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