In Thunderbird you can now also view these images in the original email attachment bar. Image thumbnails will also be seen in Files (Nautilus) windows.

Now a double-click on the image icon will open the file in Image Viewer for viewing.

HEIC images to your ~/Pictures folder, right-click on the image icon, select Properties, and set the default application to Open With as Image Viewer. As it's a new container format, there will be some incompatibilities along the way, and Apple does a good job at handling most of these. This is a photo viewer that allows one to open their images which are in every major compatible image format, including JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, as well as the new HEIC format stored on their PC. Microsoft ships Windows 11 and Windows 10 with a built-in image viewer called Photos. Apowersoft Photo Viewer is the first ever app that supports the direct viewing of HEIC format.

HEIC will be used by default on new photos on iOS 11, and it's designed to save you storage space. Attempt to open an HEIC file with the Photos app. Using advanced and modern compression methods, it allows photos to be created in smaller file sizes while retaining a higher image quality compared to JPEG/JPG.Įvery iOS update comes with a host of changes, but some are not immediately obvious. HEIC is the file format name Apple has chosen for the new HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format) Standard.

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