
Their only drawback is the lack of support from widely used programs and operating systems. HEIC comes from the High-Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF), developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as an improvement over the predominant JPG format. Luckily, that’s simple to do for Mac users. Nonetheless, people still need to convert HEIC to JPG from time to time in order to prevent incompatibilities. Beginning with iOS 11, Apple changed the default photo file format for the iPhone and iPad so that photos are now saved as HEIC instead of JPG - this change offers superior compression while maintaining high image quality, enabling you to keep more images on your phone or tablet. Apple’s HEIC file type for photos is gradually being accepted by developers because it is the iPhone and iPad standard for photos.
