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HEIC
High Efficiency Image Container
HEIC is what an iPhone saves by default: HEVC-compressed stills at roughly half the size of an equivalent JPEG, often with depth maps and Live Photo data attached. Windows, most web forms and most non-Apple software cannot open it.
- Extensions
- .heic .heif
- MIME type
- image/heic
- Also called
- HEIF
01 Convert HEIC to something else
03 Related formats
Opening a .heic file
If you landed here because something handed you a .heic file and
nothing on your machine will open it, converting it to a format you already have a
reader for is usually faster than installing new software. Every conversion above runs
in this browser — the file is not uploaded, so it works on a locked-down work machine
and on a file you are not allowed to send anywhere.