Convert Your iOS Photos and Videos for Better Compatibility Everywhere | Lifehacker

By Life's Digital Bits
In Apps & Devices, Resource

If you’ve tried to manage your photos and videos on anything besides your iPhone, you might have run into compatibility issues preventing you from opening, uploading, or editing particular files. That’s thanks to Apple’s new space-saving HEIF image and HEVC video file formats, which offers a space-saving benefit compared to older JPEG and H.264 formats, though they’re not exactly beneficial if you can’t open the file at all. Here’s how you can stick with the tried and true image and video formats until more companies figure out how to support the newer standards.