


HEIC files, so you can't open photos transferred directly from your iPhone or iPad devices. Out of the box, Windows does not support. The HEIC format has other advantages, such as color depth which goes up to 16-bit compared to JPEG's 8-bit, and a wider dynamic range of brightness. Just like Google developed the WebP format for the web, Apple shifted to a superior and more modern file format to store photos on its devices.

Compared to the JPEG format, HEIC takes about half the storage space when saving images that preserve a similar quality. Apple switched to High-Efficiency Image Container (HEIC) files as the default format for storing photos across its mobile devices in 2017.
