Why iPhone Photos Suck!

This was super helpful for those with the trust issues!

Family first !! Great help for me on this new format, Ive had some issues but just did realize the format problem. Again Thanks.

With most compatible, you can not shoot slow mo video.

Super great info! Thanks so much 🙏

Great video thanks

wow, you are so incredibly keen! I would have never realized this problem, mainly because I always use my X-T3, occasionally, I use my iPhone X for convenience and I only use Lightroom and Photoshop for post-processing. I only use Instagram., no Facebook. Again, wow, how keen are you! Love your content and so enjoy your upbeat humor and always look forward to your videos!

First things I check to turn off with a new iPhone. HEIC is never going to be a thing with this bad support.

Cool video.....many thanks.

Family first. Loyal subscribers will stick around. Quality supersedes quantity. Good video.

I switched to jpgs right away. Pain in the Ass this HIAC format.

Unfortunately some of the more advanced camera features (Deep Fusion and Capture outside the frame) are only available if you use the HEIC format.

Hey chris, love your videos on the Fuji cameras, I recently(6 weeks ago) switched from my Canon DSLR over to Fuji, and I'm simply in-love with my new XT3 with 18-55mm & 50mm f2 lenses. Your videos are informative, and have helped ease me into the mirrorless Fuji world, thanks man! Just off-topic from the video, I did a wedding this past weekend, and experienced something very strange that nobody can answer, and it had me shook, because I am so confident in the XT3, that my last 4 paid shoots I didn't bother taking my old back-up camera with me. What happened was, after shooting the whole day, I got to the reception and when I half-pressed the shutter button to get focus(like I always do), there would be a black broad murky band was slowly rolling through my EVF and LCD everytime from top to bottom. I changed shutter modes, swapped lenses, took out my batteries from battery-grip and re-inserted it, removed the battery-grip, even removed the flash to try and see if it was any of these things that would've caused it, but it nothing helped. Luckily the images weren't affected, just some were out of focus, and the black band/line didn't appear in them. The shutter had a lag in it later on too, I was in mechanical shutter, and when I would press the shutter, there was a delay in the response with it taking the actual images. Has this every happened to you, or anybody on the forum?

I’m a heavy iPhone Image creator and publish on Facebook groups and Instagram. Not until I joined a private photo sharing group in my local photography club, did encounter a problem. My photos that I brought to share would not load on the club’s computer software. I had to convert them to jpeg first. Thanks for you research and video. I will probably now convert my default iPhone X to jpeg only. 👍👍

I didn't know this format existed until I was trying to send a pic in email and got one of those error messages. What I'm on the verge of blowing a gasket is that all my stored pictures on ICloud were converted to this format. I want to talk to someone at Apple and possibly sue them in court! Is there a way to mass convert my pictures on iCloud back to jpeg? Apple should have warned us and now THEY should give that option to convert back. You are correct, a lot of Window apps don't support it. And they are being asked to pay a licensing fee? The gall.AAAAhhhh!

Kirk in Camera Bits has recently said - "We will add HEIC support in Photo Mechanic 6, but it will require macOS 10.13+ or Windows 10"  So, you can soon go back to your normal workflow.

It works in Lightroom

Not an issue. I use Lightroom and every works fine. I look forward to exporting in HEIC to save space on my finished work. Maintain quality and maximize my storage space 👍🏾

the Canon 1Dx mark 3 supports the new format!

wait are you saying that the dev and support should eat the cost? This is something i disagree with you completely; apple should be the responsible party to allow their users to freely use their intellectual property. This is probably the first time you disappointed me man. Why kiss apples ass and let them rule over how you can do anything, sheep.

Excellent concise teaching - thank you! I have subscribed and "smashed" the bell on your channel based on this video.

HEIF will never be supported in the web browsers. Nobody in their right mind wants to deal with a heavily patent encumbered format on the web. The idiotic and frustrating thing about HEIF support by Apple, software developers and camera manufacturers is that this is now actually the time that a replacement format for JPEG might actually be successful and it is CLEAR to anybody that a PATENT ENCUMBERED will NOT succeed on the web. But Apple in all their wisdom STILL started to promote and use one creating a big mess.

The alternative that is starting to be rolled out is AVIF based on AV1 video codec from AOMedia consortium of which Apple is part of as a founding member! AV1 video codec is already supported by Edge, Chrome and Firefox (which is already better than HEVC) and support for AVIF will be added in the near future. With AVIF you don't need to deal with any kind of licensing as it is a patent unencumbered format and it is actually better than HEIF.

The other very interesting alternative is JPEG XL. It is a purposely build still image codec (compared to both HEIF and AVIF, which use a video codec) and is tuned to avoid any kind of artefacts to provide a visually lossless compression with medium sized files, which is different to video codecs which are tuned to go as low as possible and artefacts are OK as long as they aren't visible in motion. This is why I think it's just perfect for cameras. Also it supports 16-bit per channel and more, which is something HEIF and AVIF don't (both are capped to 12-bits per channel). Another neat thing is also that JPEG is a subset of JPEG XL (it supports JPEG 8x8 blocks), so you can losslessly convert a JPEG to JPEG XL and get about 20% in reduction in size (because of better entropy coder) and such a image can also losslessly be converted back (not one that uses other JPEG XL features howeevr). JPEG XL will be ratified as a standard early next year.

Apple has totally disrupted the digital imaging world, and I fully agree with your rant over the lack of support (especially by Adobe) for Apple's HEIF and HEVC (H.265) codecs. However, I disagree with giving up and reverting to the safety net of the “Most Compatible” format, JPG and MP4 (H.264). If your objective is to record and produce the highest quality videos and photos possible using the latest image compression technology, then it is essential that you learn how to make use of these formats and revise your workflow accordingly.


That said, revising a workflow can be an excruciatingly frustrating and a time and storage space consuming process (3.9 x increase in storage space!). Such has been my experience learning how to edit 4K H.265 HEVC videos recorded with my upgraded iPhone 11 Pro Max using Adobe Premiere Pro CC on a Windows laptop. It has taken me several months and many, many hours of research and experimentation to learn how to utilize the expanded capabilities of IOS 11 High Efficiency (HEVC) video format that Apple is now using for 4k 30 and 60 fps videos, and to devise a workflow.

Thanks from my wife- she was worried as her beloved IrfanView didn´t work with HEIC

I share the same opinion, there is no way to add a tag to an image and this makes me crazy! 
Thanks

I need a little assistance with setting up my iPhone as a webcam. I purchase the app and did the steps you listed. Plugged the lightning chord directly into the laptop but it shows a usb icon that shows it’s not connected. Please help. If you need more information, please let me know. Thank you!

My Iphone 11 max pro was full on storage and I tried to transfer to store my photo and video to my Windows pc and not able to open and view my videos or pics when they moved over thanks HEIC. I do not store to the cloud.

I still have cds because I don’t trust Apple or Microsoft not to muck up streaming with their walled garden. Glad you’re calling them out on this too 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

hey man it's 2024 - HEIC still sucks

Thank you for this description.

Anyone having issues with compatibility using HEIC file format photos in your workflow?