Files Versus Photos

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  1. Von Jones

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    This here is quite interesting. Even though I can't remember which photos I needed to converter it's captured my curiosity to learn more about how it would benefit my needs.
     
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    Well my granddaughters know a lot more about its workings than I ever would. They are tickled while watching me as I fumble around and give up and ask for them to show me. :D
     
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    I read that Apple uses this format, but my iPhone creates jpeg files. I've never encountered an HEIC type.
     
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    My son is an Apple user maybe that's why he recommended this HEIC converter. He forgets his Momma is 'so old school'. :rolleyes:
     
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    If you download that viewer I posted about, you can view the HEIC file in it, and save it as something else if you want. It's not really a "conversion" process, just a Save As option. The viewer is only available for Windows.
     
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    That works.
     
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    As far as the Kindle discussion; a Kindle is an e-reader. The Kindle Fire is a full-function tablet with cameras, etc., so I assume the file question has to do with a Fire tablet.
     
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    There is a setting on the iPhone that automatically converts HEIC to JPG if I email a photo from my phone. I was just reading about that because I wondered why pictures I email myself are not HEIC but JPG, so now I know. :D
     
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    I have to admit that I don't know diddly squat about the difference of anything when it comes to technical stuff about computers, phone, etc. until I mess up something. The more I read and try to understand the jargon the more questions I find myself asking and going down the dark hole of 0s and 1s and then forget what I was looking for in the first place. Am I being dramatic? :D
     
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    Too funny... my profile pic and this emoji :D look alike. :rolleyes::) I'm so silly.
     
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    NOW I understand. Folks were just saying "Fire," but I was finding comments elsewhere about Amazon's Kindle App Store, so I knew that [some] Kindles did more than just display text.

    Photos are HEIF on my iPhone 12 Mini. Apparently, HEIC is a format developed by the MPEG folks, and Apple calls their version HEIF. When I download them from my iPhone to my WIN10 pc using a cable and no intermediate software (iTunes), they download as JPG. I wonder if they would download to another Apple device as unconverted HEIF (or HEIC) files.
     
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    I used to build my own desktop computers and was pretty much on top of this stuff. Not any more. It is overwhelming, and the jargon is--well--"jargon." I will say that when I got my first iPhone after always having Androids, I was so concerned that I would not know how to to the most basic stuff that I watched a bunch of videos and read a bunch articles, driven by fear. Now I can do more on this iPhone that I ever could with the Android, which I never really took the time to learn. Silly, huh?
     
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