Windows 10: Link phone to Computer APP causing HEIC format problem

Yesterday I linked my android phone to my computer with Windows 10, in order to be able to share photos. Since I added the link, I have not been able to send pics to my computer, since they are sent in the heic format, not the jpg format. My computer does not recognize the heic format. I decided to delete the link windows app from my phone in hopes of changing it back to jpg format. But my phone still can only send pictures in the heic format. I could sent pics in the jpg format before I added the link app to my phone. I checked my camera settings and the high efficiency setting is turned off

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PowerToys changes format to HEIC

- Installed PowerToys to Windows 11.

- Took photos that were transferred from iPhone to Windows 11 and resized them.

- Photos has a HEIC format but opened fine on Laptop.

- Checked PowerToys settings, and Image Resizer settings but couldn't find anything to suggest that they should be changed to HEIC,

Was it just a false positive? As in they are actually jpg but it says HEIC because they were transferred from an iPhone.

 

HEIC Format Covert for Windows 7

See the following articles:

• How To Convert iPhone Photos Back to JPG Format
• What is HEIC?
• Everything you need to know about the JPEG-killing HEIF format Apple is adopting

If you want to keep using HEIC on your iPhone (and there seems to be good reason to do that), you'll need some third-party utility. I don't know which of them have ads and which don't. However,

CopyTrans HEIC for Windows seems to be pretty popular and it's free for home users. See, for example,

https://www.howtogeek.com/345504/how-to-open-heic-files-on-windows-or-convert-them-to-jpeg/

 

Photo App "Collection" shows no photos in HEIC format

Even though I can view HEIC-picture with the Windows 10 photos app (and I can view next and previous HEIC-pictures), but if I click on "Collection / all pictures" in the Photo app (button top left) it shows no HEIC-pictures (only other picture formates)