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Hello. I sometimes receive images in HEIC format and I use an app to convert them to JPG. However I realized that this app uploads the images and makes the conversion in the cloud, so I stopped using it.

Does anyone know of an app that does this conversion offline?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not sure of an app that does it (unless you want to use photoshop etc,but even that will likely try store it in the cloud).

I’d just ask the person to resend it. HEIC is the format used by iPhones. They can send it as a jpeg (they need to copy>paste it, not just press share).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

another more explicit way to do that: