Trouble opening iOS 11 HEIF images on Windows? We teach you how to avoid them

How do you know, the arrival of iOS 11 to Apple terminals brought an important novelty such as the adoption of the HEIF format in images. A novelty that may have caused you some problem if you own an iPhone or an iPad and you have used the camera to immortalize some moment that you then passed through an external memory to your Windows computer

And when doing so you will have encountered a file that is unreadable by your computer and therefore with an unpleasant surprise.In the absence of this format being compatible with Windows, there are different ways to make use of the photos without having to go through a conversion process via the web or a third-party application.

Upgrading to iOS 11 with HEIF in images gains several GB of phone storage

HEIF is an acronym for High Efficiency Image File Format and was created by the developers of MPEG. The new image format is based on HEVC/H.265 (which we have already discussed on other occasions), a video compression codec that has been gaining popularity in the last yearand that is increasingly used. It also includes improvements such as the option to store images with a color depth of 10 bits while JPEG is limited to 8 bits

This is a format designed to save storage space so that we can free up to 60% with the same photos that before they were stored in JPG.And since when taking photos we want to avoid the tedious task of converting them, we are going to explain how to avoid this incompatibility.

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The first and least indicated step is to change the HEIC format to JPG within the iPhone settings. It is about going back to the previous system and therefore losing one of the most outstanding improvements offered by iOS 11. To do this, simply go to the device Settings, look for the Camera option and within it in Formats where we will go from High efficiency to The most compatible. We thus went from using the HEIF format to using the JPEG format."

Cloud Sync: Best Option

That solution is one of them, but maybe not the best. And it is that the option of uploading photos to a cloud service is much more practical In this case Dropbox is perfectly valid, since even if we have activated the format HEIF on iOS, photos can be viewed when uploaded to the cloud.

Like this just configure the automatic upload from our mobile so that it sends them to the cloud and we only have to click them with the mouse from our PC (if we have the corresponding applications installed).

And the third option to be able to enjoy the photos without having to convert them is to send them by email Not as comfortable as the other processes , especially if we have to share a significant number of photos, it can be a valid option at a specific moment.