If you have a top budget Android phone and often receive pictures from your friend's iPhone, you may have noticed the .heic file format. While the HEIC file format has been around for a while, its popularity skyrocketed when Apple adopted it with the introduction of iOS 11 in 2017. This image file format packs compressed data, location, date, and more. HEIC is often known as High-Efficiency File Format and offers several advantages over existing file formats like JPEG and PNG.
