Automatic HEIC to JPG conversion not working in iOS 18.5 when downloading photos

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Automatic HEIC to JPG conversion not working in iOS 18.5 when downloading photos

I have a iPhone 14Pro, running ios18.5. The Automatic conversion is set in Settings. When copying the files to a PC they do not convert. Is this a known bug in the IOS? I know this worked as recently as 1 year ago. I have >1000 photos to download, so doing so one at a time is not an option.

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Original Title: The "Automatic" conversion from HEIC to JPG does not work in IOS18.5, when downloading photos. It worked in previous IOS. What is a workaround?

iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Jun 26, 2025 11:12 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 26, 2025 12:46 PM in response to rdshep

Have you changed computers? Automatic means that Photos tries to send the best version to whatever machine is receiving the pictures. I don't know much about Windows, but I think that it tends to send jpg to Windows 10 and heic to Windows 11, but apparently you have to add something to Windows 11 for this to work. I don't know why. But this may help:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pmmsr1cgpwg?hl=en-us&gl=US

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Answer 2

Jun 26, 2025 10:20 PM in response to rdshep

I noticed the same thing a few months ago When testing Windows 10 virtual machine on my Mac. That Windows 10 does not have any .heic support add-ons.

Previously .heic was automatically converted to .jpg but not anymore. I suspect upgrade to iPadOS 18 caused this.

A workaround is to set the iPhone shoot .jpg (and H.264) to begin with. I guess there should be Windows tools to batch convert .heic to .jpg?

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