I am not sure if this question belongs to this group.
When I take photos using my iPhone then the Photos are usually with .HEIC
extension. Now from my iPhone I am able to upload the photos to whatsapp. I am guessing that may be iPhone is converting the Photos to JPG/PNG/etc before uploading the Photo to Whatsapp.
Now I have transferred photos from my iPhone to MAC(Please see the Edit below at the end). When I try to upload a Photo using Web-Whatsapp from my MAC then I am not able to upload .HEIC
files as they are greyed out. I can upload .HEIC
photos as files/documents in Web Whatsapp but then the photo will be displayed as a downloadable file instead of displaying it within whatsapp chat
What is the solution for this situation? Is there a setting I can use when transferring Photos and Videos from iPhone to MAC, so that I can select to convert .HEIC to .PNG automatically?
EDIT: Earlier, I was importing the photos from iPhone into the
Photos.app
in MAC. This is not the right way, if the intention is to just transfer the Photos from iPhone to the FileExplorer/Finder in MAC. For transferring Photos from iPhone to MAC I need to useImage Capture.app
. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7090485
But the question is still valid. Even though I used ImageCapture app to transfer photos from iPhone to MAC, all the Camera photos except screenshots are imported as .HEIC and not .PNG. I am not aware of any setting in iPhone to change the photos automatically to .PNG when transferring to Laptop
photos.app
. Then in Photos.app preferences -> Show in Finder I can see the photos. Not sure if there is a better way to transfer photos from iPhone to MAC without using iCloud