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swiftcoder 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What I...

If you directly download the HEIC photos to your windows PC.

The iPhone tends to convert to jpeg whenever you email/whatsapp/etc a photo, so it's only direct file import that nets the original HEIC file.

gambiting 9 months ago [–]

Exactly, I'd upload a bunch of photos to Google Drive to download to my PC, Google Drive could open them fine, but the default windows photo viewer app would demand payment to open them.

astrange 9 months ago | [–]

Well, Windows wouldn't display the HDR part of the image, so you're still not exactly seeing it.

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