iMazing Converter For Mac

With the release of iOS 11, Apple has switched to HEVC (High Efficiency Video Codec) as the default video format and HEIF (short for High Efficiency Image Format) as the default format for storing photos, which is actually a container for the HEVC video format.

Photos snapped using the HEIF image format are saved on iOS devices as HEIC files, and they are a lot smaller when compared to JPG or PNG files, usually around two times smaller than JPGs.

This means that you will be able to save a lot of bandwidth when sharing photos with your friends or syncing your Library to iCloud, and a lot of space when storing them on your iOS device.

Moreover, the HEIF format is capable of recording both image bursts and cinemagraphs, and it comes with support for both lossless and lossy image data storage.

However, HEIF does come with some disadvantages, the most important one being that it is not as widely adopted as older and popular image formats such as JPG and PNG, with some platforms such as Microsoft's latest OS, Windows 10, with absolutely no support for opening and viewing HEIC files.

The best way to go when you need to use HEIC images on platforms or in apps which do not come with built-in support for this photo format is to convert them to either PNG or JPG seeing that these are the most popular formats at the moment.

The iMazing Converter app is a free macOS application designed to help you effortlessly convert HEIC images to either JPG and PNG using your Mac and thus avoid compatibility issues when sharing or viewing them on incompatible platforms or apps.

iMazing Converter provides you with a user-friendly drag and drop interface which will allow you to load the HEIC images you need to convert by dropping them onto the app's main screen.

Once the photos are loaded, you can choose the output format with the help of the Format drop-down menu at the bottom left side of the window.

After clicking the Convert button and selecting the target folder, iMazing Converter starts converting and lets you know what is the active task via a progress bar displayed in the middle of its main screen.

When iMazing Converter has finished the conversion process, you can go to the output folder and use the resulting PNG or JPG images to share with your friends or open in your favorite image editing app.

To summarize it all, using iMazing Converter on your Mac makes it possible to easily and rapidly convert HEIC photos snapped using an iPhone 7 or newer running iOS 11 to more popular image formats such as JPG and PNG.