As someone who's only used Shortcuts for smart home stuff, when you trigger this to run, does it then ask you to choose a photo? Or do you choose the shortcut from the share sheet when a photo is open?And can automate on iPhone as well via a Shortcut. Two actions is all it takes.
(Left as an exercise: probably can save to an Album as well in Photos via Save to Album action)
Or, alternatively, you can quickly edit the photo (cropping, filters, just drawing a small dot) to have it converted to JPEG.
Does anyone know why the iPhone does this, converting edited photos to JPEG?
The great advantage of using heif or heic is the space saved.
You're able to get almost 2x as many photos stored in the same amount of iPhone storage.
I personally use an automater action that you can add to your right-click menu on your mac. I use it at work since I'm usually emailing people with PCs.
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How to Convert HEIC Images to JPG on a Mac the Easy Way
Apple started using the HEIC image format with iOS 11.www.howtogeek.com
And can automate on iPhone as well via a Shortcut. Two actions is all it takes.
(Left as an exercise: probably can save to an Album as well in Photos via Save to Album action)
No. Any cloud account you have on the device will work. So, can always send them to iCloud. Or Files' "On my iPhone/iPad".Hopefully I don’t need a Dropbox account for Shortcut to work on iPhone