Allow HEIC to JPG conversion when uploading
I used to upload photos from my personal iPhone to OneDrive so I could open them on my work computer running Windows 8.1. With the update allowing HEIC I can no longer open them. It seems my options are to open the app to take pictures, allow all of my personal photos to be uploaded, access pictures only through the website, use a 3rd party converter, or find a new app to get my pictures on my computer. It would be nice if there was a setting to return the app to the old functionality.
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Anton Hendriks
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Ad a HEIC converter in the windows 10 photo app
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Good Follow
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To be honest, I do not know if they will be able to add this option to the One Drive, or at least it would be hard to do as long as you have to do all of the stuff online, and what is going to be with the photos made in bigger formats, bigger resolution, it will take a lot of time to convert them using an web app. I am pretty sure of that, and I can give you a better solution for that. You can use another formatting app that will do this in a smaller amount of time. I am using it every time I need to format my photos from .heic to jpeg. You can find this app on the developer site www.softorbits.com/convert-heic-to-jpeg/ as far as I know they have other useful apps for photo and video editing, so go on and check
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Mark Guenter
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This is a major issue that has me considering switching from OneDrive. It's pretty frustrating to be stuck with HEIC files and I would like to see an option to upload or convert to JPG very soon.
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Greasemonkey
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Please bring back the option of uploading in HEIC or JPG. As mentioned by others as well, Windows 10 has no native HEIC support, so it doesn't make sense to give HEIC as the only upload option.
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Anonymous
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Please do add option to convert in OneDrive.
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Eason
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At least you guys should give us an option to allow or not allow HEIC transfer.
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Nathan Gyger
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WORKAROUND
When I upload the images from within the PHOTOS app and not OneDrive, the format is JPG.
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Nathan Gyger
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Because of the incompatibility to read HEIC images, I now have to send the images via mail from my phone to my PC, like we did 10 years ago.
Maybe Microsoft was forces by Apple to use this format? But then I don't understand why Microsoft does not offer the codec for free.
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Anonymous
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Windows 10 has no way to handle these files. What the **** are you thinking?
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Pontus Borgström
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The function to not upload jpeg is just pure STUPID!!!!
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Mats
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On my iPhone I see MOV and JPG files only when I look into its internal storage via USB. Uploading with OneDrive converts everything to HEIC, non-readable for any Office365 app.
So why does Microsoft OneDrive convert to Microsoft-incompatible formats?
Please, improve soon - it is time consuming to manually reconvert and it is annoying. Thx and Merry Christmas -
Paul S
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Agree with all the posts here. This change has made photos on OneDrive needlessly more cumbersome. Please fix.
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Anonymous
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Having Windows and Office deal with HEIC files as well as it deals with JPG files would be even better, but I'm guessing this is the quicker option.
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Guido
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I experience the same issue. If i upload manually the pictures are converted to .jpg, but not automatically thru the Camera-upload feature. Then the pictures and movies are in HEIC format/codec.
It would be an great advantage if the automatic camera-upload feature uploads in jpg format.
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Danica S.
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I am having the same issue. I do lots of photo editing and also digital scrapbooking. I was able to easily grab my photos from one drive from my iphone and download them to my computer. Now I cannot. This is a huge waste of time for me now. I had to download another program to convert my photos to a format my software can read. Please give us the option again to save as jpeg
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KG
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I have a daily need to take photos with my iPhone, transfer them to my PC, and insert them into Word documents. In the old version of the app, I could do this easily within OneDrive. I have resorted to emailing them to myself and saving them into OneDrive from there. Please allow the option to upload as JPG.
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Anonymous
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Please giv us the option to chose JPEG when uploading photos to OneDrive.
