Here’s how you get the app and use it on your PC: Your HEIC photos will open just like your other photos in Windows Photo Viewer once you’ve installed this tiny app. It actually adds native support for this file format which means you can view HEIC in your existing image viewer after installing this tool. Here we take a look at some of those options.ĬopyTrans HEIC for Windows is a completely free tool (for personal use) that adds support for HEIC files to your Windows machine. Luckily, you have some third-party methods to add support for and view HEIC files on your Windows computer. While this format opens just fine on your Apple device, it won’t necessarily open that easily on other machines, including your Windows PC. That happens because Windows does not support this new image format that Apple uses on its latest iOS devices.Īpple introduced this new HEIC image format on its iPhone and iPad devices, starting with iOS 11. If you try to open a HEIC file on your Windows PC, you will find that your machine says the file format is not supported.
