How To Open HEIC Files On Android, Follow These Easy Steps

Illustration of how to open a HEIC (Freepic) file

YOGYAKARTA - HEIC is an image format commonly encountered on iOS devices or Apple's iPhone phone operating system. This shaped image is lighter twice than the JPG format of the same quality. But many Android users complain that they cannot open HEIC photos. So how to open the HEIC file?

HEIC is the latest version of the HEIF (High-Efficency Image File) format on Apple. Some Android phones with a minimum version 9 to 10 actually support this format. However, other phones are still not compatible to access the HEIC format. If you are experiencing this problem, you need to know how to open the HEIC file on your Android phone.

Certain version of Android phones are not compatible to open the HEIC file. But there are several ways you can do to be able to open the HEIC photo. Here are some steps you can take.

Google Photos is an application from Google that is provided to open various photo formats. In this application you can edit HEIC files on Android phones.

File by Google is a file management application. With this application, you can find and open the HEIC format file without having to convert it to JPG or other formats.

Gmail is a tool used to send messages and files in other formats. You can use Gmail to open photos or images in HEIC format in the following way.

If you have done the methods above but still can't open the HEIC photo, then you should convert or change the format first. You can change the HEIC photo format to JPG.

To change the HEIC format to JPG, you need to use a third-party application available on the Play Store. Here are the steps to convert HEIC to JPG:

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