{"id":33950,"date":"2021-06-13T16:45:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33950"},"modified":"2023-05-31T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:54:11","slug":"open-heic-convert-jpg-png-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/open-heic-convert-jpg-png-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Open iOS HEIC Photos or Convert to JPG\/PNG in Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Got .HEIC photo images import from your iPhone? You may found that Ubuntu does not open the file format out-of-the-box.<\/p>\n

It’s however easy to either enable this file format support or convert it to JPG or PNG image.<\/p>\n

Enable HEIF\/HEIC Support for the Default Image Viewer<\/h3>\n

In Ubuntu 20.04<\/b> and Ubuntu 22.04<\/b>, you can easily enable the HEIF \/ HEIC file format support via libheif libraries.<\/p>\n

1.) Simply search for and open terminal from system app launcher (or press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard).<\/p>\n

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2.) When terminal opens, run command to install the library:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install heif-gdk-pixbuf<\/pre>\n
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter<\/i><\/p>\n
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Now, double-click to open the .heic<\/i> (or right-click -> Open with Other Application -> select Image Viewer) photo and enjoy!<\/p>\n
For Ubuntu 18.04<\/b> \/ Ubuntu 16.04<\/b> users, the library is not available in system repositories. You have to add the third-party PPA<\/a> by running command:<\/p>\n
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:strukturag\/libheif<\/pre>\n
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Then refresh package cache via:<\/p>\n
sudo apt update<\/pre>\n
And finally run the command in step 2.) to get it installed.<\/p>\n
Convert HEIF\/HEIC to JPEG or PNG<\/h3>\n
It’s also quite easy to convert the photo to another format in Ubuntu Linux.<\/p>\n
Simply open the photo via either GIMP<\/b> or Krita<\/b> image editor (both available in Ubuntu Software<\/i>), then select Export<\/b> to JPG \/ PNG.<\/p>\n
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Too many HEIC photos to convert? Using heif-convert<\/code> command will be more effective.<\/strong><\/p>\n
1.) Firstly open terminal and run command to install heif-convert<\/code> tool:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install libheif-examples<\/pre>\n
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2.) Next you can convert a HEIC file to JPEG via command:<\/p>\n
heif-convert -q 85 input.HEIC output.JPG<\/pre>\n
Here -q 85<\/code> specifies the output quality level. You can skip it to use default value 92.<\/p>\n
To batch convert HEIC photos to JPEG<\/b>, firstly navigate to the photo folder in file manager and select ‘Open in Terminal’ from context menu:<\/p>\n
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Finally run command:<\/p>\n
for file in *.HEIC; do heif-convert $file ${file%.HEIC}.jpg; done<\/pre>\n
NOTE:<\/b> Linux commands are case sensitive! If your HEIC photos have file extension in lower-case, replace HEIC<\/b> with heic<\/b> in the last command.<\/p>\n
For instance, convert all .HEIC<\/code> photos to jpg<\/code> with quality 100%, run command:<\/p>\n
for file in *.HEIC; do heif-convert -q 100 $file ${file%.HEIC}.jpg; done<\/pre>\n
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Updates for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:<\/h3>\n
The powerful Imagemagick package in Ubuntu 22.04 repository has support the HEIC\/HEIF image format!<\/p>\n
First, press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal and run command to install the tool:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install imagemagick<\/pre>\n
Then, open the folder that contains the photo images, right-click on select “Open in Terminal” and finally use command to convert:<\/p>\n
convert input.HEIC -quality 95 output.JPG<\/pre>\n
Change the number in -quality 95<\/code>, or skip it to use default 90. To convert a batch of files (from .HEIC to .jpg), use command:<\/p>\n
for file in *.HEIC; do convert $file ${file%.HEIC}.jpg; done<\/pre>\n
That’s all. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Got .HEIC photo images import from your iPhone? You may found that Ubuntu does not open the file format out-of-the-box. It’s however easy to either enable this file format support or convert it to JPG or PNG image. Enable HEIF\/HEIC Support for the Default Image Viewer In Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04, you can easily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2038],"class_list":["post-33950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-heif"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}