HEIC Pictures and HEVC Videos
Accessing HEIC Photos and HEVC Videos
iPhones 7 and later running iOS11 and later have the option to take pictures using a format called HEIC and video in a format called HEVC. HEIC replaces the JPG format and HEVC is replacing the MOV format, although still uses the .mov extension. Most phones have this format selected by default. These formats are currently only viewable on MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later. If you are on Windows or an older Mac OS they do not support these formats, so here are a few tools that you can use to view your data. DriveSavers does not convert the format of the data from how it was saved on your device.
For HEIC image support within Windows 10 and Windows 11, you should first go to your "Check for Updates" in your setting and see if you have any updates. If after doing your updates you still do not have support for these formats, you can download a Microsoft extension from the Microsoft App Store that will enable Windows to view these files. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/heif-image-extensions/9pmmsr1cgpwg?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
For HEVC Video support within Windows 10 and Windows 11, you should first go to your "Check for Updates" in your setting and see if you have any updates. If after doing your updates you still do not have support for these formats, you can download a Microsoft extension from the Microsoft App Store that will enable Windows to view these files. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/hevc-video-extensions/9nmzlz57r3t7?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
For HEIC images you can use a free tool from iMazing that will convert the HEIC images to JPG images https://imazing.com/heic. This is available for both Mac and Windows
For HEVC Videos you can use a free tool called VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html. You can use this tool as a video player or there is also a feature to convert the file to another format. This is available for both Mac and Windows.