 Hello everybody! In this video, I'm going to show you how to open furters with such extensions as H-E-I-C in a Windows operating system and how we convert them quickly into another format. Hello friends! If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browse in history. Hetman Software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. When working with their computers, more and more users are coming across photos saved with such extension as H-E-I-C – high-efficiency image codec. Most often, these are people using the latest iPhone models with iOS 11. By default, such iPhones take pictures in this new format instead of the good old JPG. Similar changes are expected in Android P – the 9th world-stream of this operating system. H-E-I-C format has several advantages making it far better than JPG. With the same quality, a photo in the new format takes up twice less space than a JPG. One, H-E-I-C file contains several separate pictures, which is very good for the photos. It supports transparency like in GIFs. It saves any modifications of the picture, like rotation, cropping, which can be canceled if necessary, so you can go back to the version of the picture you need. It also supports 16-bit colors, while JPG only works with 8-bit colors. With such set of advantages, JPG has little chances to keep its positions and will evidently give way to H-E-I-C soon. In Windows 10, when you try opening an H-E-I-C picture with the standard photos utility, you'll see the message saying, install additional codecs to work with this file and download codecs at Microsoft Store. If you click on the link, the store will open automatically and suggest you to buy the codecs. Below, you will see that one of them can be installed for free, and the other wants your money. Install the free version if it's available or follow the link in the description for this video and download them. By following the links, you can get these extensions for free and install them to your computer. After installation, you will be able to open H-E-I-C photos easily. If the links didn't work properly for some reason, use an online converter to quickly transform H-E-I-C images into JPG. Find the link in the description. Just drag all your photos into this window and then click download or download all JPG images, if there are several photos. And the upload will start. Soon, you will get your photos in the conventional JPG format that Windows opens easily. There are also lots of programs to help you with converting H-E-I-C photos into another format. One of those, whereas mentioning, is a PowerSoft photo viewer, a futility which can be downloaded from its official website and you will find the link below this video as before. When run the program, then click open, specify the path to the necessary file or drag it into this window. With this program, you can view all pictures that you couldn't open with the system standard means. And if you want to save them in another format, click menu, in the upper right corner of the screen, the button with the three dots, and choose save as. Then specify the folder where this photo should be saved, choose the format and click save. After that, you can go to that folder and view the file. As you can see, it's got the JPG format that you have chosen when saving it. One more way to open photographs with H-E-I-C extension is to upload them to your Google Drive. All you have to do is to drag all your photos into this window and the service will open them. If you don't want your iPhone to save photos in this new format, but save all of them in JPG, Open Settings, Camera, Formats, here check the option Most Compatible instead of High Efficiency. You can also set up your phone so that pictures are saved in H-E-I-C format on the device, but they are converted to JPG automatically while you send them to your PC through a cable. To do it, go to Settings, Photos in Camera, and in the section Transfer to Macro or PC, select the line Automatic. When transferring, it will convert photos to JPG automatically. And that is all for now. Hit the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching and good luck.