HEIC photos converting to JPEG

abeldl1 wrote:

I am wondering if there is a way to convert my iphone photos (which are shot in HEIC) to JPG as I'm putting them on my MAC instead of having to take the extra steps to convert them once they are already on my computer, then delete the duplicates. Any ideas?

I do have the latest operating systems on both my phone and my computer.

TIA!

Danielle

Photos not importing at JPG, but as HEIC - Apple Community

Using HEIF or HEVC media on Apple devices - Apple Support

You can make a new folder where you will deposit the .heic images from your iPhone. You then create an Automator Folder Action assigned to this folder to automatically convert any image deposited into it as a .jpg.

Launch Automator from Applications folder. Choose Folder action and select the above folder that you created. Drag/Drop the following Library action to the right into the larger workflow window. Set your image type to .jpg.

Automator Library: Preview Action: Change Type of Image

When you deposit images into this folder from the iPhone, they will automatically be converted from .heic to .jpg.

For those that don't already know this, and it is undocumented, the command-line tool sips(1) can convert from .heic to other formats too.

sips -s format jpg magyar.heic --out magyar.jpg

Assuming you want to shoot in HEIC, you should be able to do this with Automator.app

https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/welcome/mac

There are a number of HEIC to JPEG converters available at the App store. Several of them are free. Just search for "HEIC" at the store.

And Preview.app will do it without installing anything extra. My impression is that she was looking for an automated way to do it, unless she'd prefer to shoot JPG in the first place