Opening iPhone photos in Windows

It’s quite common to use devices with different operating systems. Each of the currently most popular systems has its own operating principles, file extensions, and its own, often closed, work environment. Often, the choice of devices we work with is beyond our control, for example, we receive work equipment. How can we make them communicate? We need to use dedicated programs. A great and simple example is when we need to open a photo from an iPhone, which usually has the HEIC extension, in Windows, which doesn’t support reading HEIC files. Therefore, we need to install HEIC Viewer: a small, simple, and effective program for opening and basic editing HEIC files. It also allows us to save them as classic JPG graphics. And it’s free. It occasionally crashes when opening the file, but overall, it’s highly recommended. We work with it ourselves. Then, opening photos from an iPhone in Windows is no problem. We describe how to do this below.

What it looks like to open photos from iPhone in Windows

Really simple. Below are the instructions. First, open the Microsoft Apps website with the HEIC Viewer program .

Opening iPhone photos in Windows

Click OPEN

Click DOWNLOAD

Open the installer from the downloads folder.

After installation, locate the HEIC file you want to open.

For your convenience, you can now assign an application to open this type of file.

To do this, right-click on the HEIC file and select OPEN WITH

Then select HEIC Viewer from the list. If it’s not listed, select CHOOSE ANOTHER APPLICATION at the bottom of the dialog box.

Check the box ALWAYS USE THIS APP TO OPEN FILES

What are the possibilities of opening photos from iPhone on Windows?

In the BASIC version:
• Preview
• Save as JPG, JPEG and PNG
• Print
• Copy images, thumbnails or paths to the clipboard
• Set the image on the desktop or lock screen
• Rotate, Flip, Zoom

In the PRO version:
• Batch conversion – convert thousands of files or folders
• Create icons from png files
• Browse additional file types such as avif, ai, bmp, dng, gif, png, svg, tiff, webp, jpeg, and ico
• Convert to additional file types such as bmp, tiff, ai, pdf, psd, gif, webp, and ico files
• More conversion options such as saving in lossless quality, to a folder, or side by side
• Privacy protection, removing metadata, creation and modification dates