Apple beginner fails with easiest tasks

[phl92]

I am new to the Apple world, and the combination of a Windows desktop and an iPhone 11 is as supposed not easy.
I want to transfer a simple self taken picture via E-Mail to my computer.
Well that's easily done, but the picture arrives as an unknown .HEIC file, which my Windows computer doesn't know. How can I change pictures on my iPhone to .JPG before sending them? If possible without any third party Apps.

 

[phl92]

Wow, ok now after reading a ton of articles in the net it seems to work.
Interesting how inconsistent the Apple world OS seems to be. It's a difference to select a photo and "Save it to files" or to just "copy photo" and "paste in the files folder". The former one doesn't change the format, the latter one actually does. How on earth makes this sense...

And the other problem I have: pictures in my mails get not attached but inserted in the body. This is totally not standard and makes a lot of problems for other people (using Outlook or similar Apps).
How can I attach them? I usually use Gmail (also on my iPhone) because the native Mail App on iPhone is totally crab imho. What on earth I am doing wrong, that iOS seems so horrendous complicate, even for the easiest tasks ???

 

[Cobold]

Windows 10 in it's latest iteration does support HEIC. Otherwise, use IrfanView or some other picture viewer, they all added support for it during the last year or so.
I am using Windows and iOS since ages and it works perfektly together!

 

[phl92]

Windows 10 in it's latest iteration does support HEIC. Otherwise, use IrfanView or some other picture viewer, they all added support for it during the last year or so.
I am using Windows and iOS since ages and it works perfektly together!

Thanks, unfortunately I am still on an older Windows system.
Well, and it seems I am just too stupid for Apple. You can attach photos only AFTER inserting them in the body and then pressing again on it "Attach photo"... well, easy when you know it

 

[Ruggy]

I'm not sure where your pictures are being saved but I assume you are taking them with the camera and then opening the photos app to find them (or the link in the camera app when open)
Well, you then tap on your image and there will be controls appear at the bottom.
The one on the left like a box with an arrow is 'share' and if you click on that it should ask you how you want to share it, give you the option to share others etc.
It will also give you options for size- small medium large.

I think if it opens inline that's more settings on your computer rather than how it's sent.

It is different but usually, the most obvious solution is right.
I remember spending ages after moving from Windows looking for how to uninstall something- you just drag it to the bin and that's it.
It's usually so simple it's staring you in the face but it does take some getting used to.
I hope the above is what you need and helps.
Best.
PS- it always comes up as .jpg for me that way too.

 

[phl92]

I'm not sure where your pictures are being saved but I assume you are taking them with the camera and then opening the photos app to find them (or the link in the camera app when open)
Well, you then tap on your image and there will be controls appear at the bottom.
The one on the left like a box with an arrow is 'share' and if you click on that it should ask you how you want to share it, give you the option to share others etc.
It will also give you options for size- small medium large.

I think if it opens inline that's more settings on your computer rather than how it's sent.

It is different but usually, the most obvious solution is right.
I remember spending ages after moving from Windows looking for how to uninstall something- you just drag it to the bin and that's it.
It's usually so simple it's staring you in the face but it does take some getting used to.
I hope the above is what you need and helps.
Best.
PS- it always comes up as .jpg for me that way too.

Thanks. Well that's indeed the case what you described. The reason why I first received a .heic photo was that I used the "shortcut action" --> Email myself, which attachs always the .heic file in the whole size without asking which size...

The only problem I have with your method using the native Mail App is that I cannot really "attach" it but just insert it in the whole body, which is annoying even for writing it. So in Gmail I double tap it after inserting and choose "attach photo" .. which makes it small and attached in the end of the mail.

Well... seems I have to get used to a lot of things yes

 

[bransoj]

If you go to Settings > Camera > Formats you can change the option from High Efficiency to Most Compatible and this will mean all photos are just jpeg's from the start and wont use HEIC at all.

 

[ehrens]

Windows 10 does indeed now natively support HEIC as of the 20H1 release. To see if you have it installed on your machine you can go to Settings > Apps and Features and it should appear in the listed apps:

For versions of Windows 10 down to version 1809 the HEIC extension can be found in the Microsoft Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/heif-image-extensions/9pmmsr1cgpwg?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

There is no native or plugin support for earlier versions of Windows, including 7 and 8/8.1. In this case you can use things like Dropbox or File Viewer Plus to open them.