PSA for iPhone users!! Regarding PHOTOS.
I’ve been harangued by HEIC files of late and we figured out WHY. Apple has instituted “high efficiency” mode for photos both in the camera AND inside messages. Annoying, yes, yes it is.
SO to turn off this HEIC crap, go to the camera settings:
settings -> Camera -> Formats -> change from High Efficiency to Most Compatible. That’ll give you JPGs. See screenshot.
**Please read the description about certain types of photos and video regarding HEIC below the choices.**
ALSO NOTE: this will not stop messages from sending HEIC files. It is a hard wired default now. Because Apple is run by morons. However, if you EMAIL photos, they will be jpgs. GO FIGURE.
If you are sent an HEIC file (that you can’t do SHIT with), PREVIEW now has EXPORT, so you can open in Preview and export as a jpg. This is on a Mac, of course, not your phone.
NOW to turn off that idiotic “Live Photo” (saves THREE low quality images that are shite and take up 3x the space for images you can’t do anything with):
Settings -> Camera -> Preserve Settings -> scroll all the way to the bottom and TURN ON Live Photo. Counterintuitive, as usual with Apple. This PRESERVES your setting of turning that shit OFF inside the camera app, otherwise it will keep turning it back ON.
So, now your photos are jpgs (except in messages) and Live Photo will be turned OFF permanently.
You’re welcome.