How to Upload Iphone Photos to Google Drive in Jpeg Format

Like many directorate, this fall my students encountered an issue with getting photos they'd taken on their iPhones to upload to our website or online yearbook software. The culprit nosotros discovered is the HEIC file.

In 2017 with the rollout of iOS 11, Apple introduced a new default format they used to save photos. The High Efficiency Image Container file format is what allows iPhone users to save live photos (essentially mini videos) without completely killing their storage. This format is too what allows a user to pick an individual frame from those live photos to use as a all the same image. While information technology is possible to turn the format off by going to Settings>Photographic camera>Formats and selecting Near Compatible, most will probably prefer to continue their phones on the High Efficiency format to save space.

There are plenty of websites that will convert the files to jpg but since we primarily house our photos in Google Bulldoze, that added an extra step requiring students to download the photo from Drive on their reckoner, upload information technology to the conversion site, redownload information technology and then finally upload it to WordPress or our yearbook site.

Granted, all of this could exist avoided if students didn't use their phones for photography, but I have to DSLR cameras to loan out and, let's face it, the best camera is the one you take on you at the fourth dimension. Students use their phones for photography when it isn't efficient to run to detect me and become a key to the equipment cabinet to borrow a camera, or when the cameras are both in use by other staffers, or when they only need a few mugshots.
While trying to notice a solution, I discovered that some staff members with iPhones had to convert their images, others did not. While at first I idea it had to exercise with the telephone model, it turned out it all had to do with how the kiddo initially uploaded the photograph to Google Drive. They all have the Bulldoze app on their phones to upload photos to shared folders where the editor and I can admission them. We discovered thathowa photo was uploaded to Drive made all the divergence.

If a student opened the Google Bulldoze app, navigated to their staff binder and so uploaded within the app, the images retained the heic format. But, if they uploaded from the Photos app using the share sheet (the piffling square with the pointer sticking out of the top of it that tin can be found throughout the Apple ecosystem), the phone would automatically convert the prototype to a jpg during the upload. Since this was a bit complicated for some students to follow, I created this brief walkthrough to a higher place to show them how to do information technology and uploaded it to our Basecamp so they could always review it if they forgot.

Travis Armknecht

Travis Armknecht is a loftier school English, journalism and speech teacher and the adviser of GCAA Student Media at Grand Center Arts University in a 6 through 12 visual and performing arts charter schoolhouse in the heart of St. Louis' performing arts district. Armknecht has taught at GCAA since 2012, when he was the first high school English instructor hired at the schoolhouse. He founded the school'due south journalism program in 2013 with a small group of sophomores who worked tirelessly subsequently school to create the school's kickoff-always yearbook. Now in its fifth twelvemonth, GCAA Student Media is a fully converged staff that works on the Expression yearbook, GCAAtoday.com website, and new GCAAtv broadcast program. Armknecht is a Certified Journalism Educator – a national certification designation from the Journalism Didactics Association. In 2016 he was named the Missouri Journalism Teaching Association Rising Star and was named a national JEA Rising Star in 2017. He is also the treasurer and co-president of journalismSTL, a St. Louis-based journalism teacher non-profit arrangement. He has a BA in theater and journalism from Concordia University in Nebraska and an MA from Webster University in Teaching Communication Arts, with an emphasis in Media Literacy. He lives in the due south St. Louis city Bevo neighborhood with his wife and their young son.

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Source: https://www.jeadigitalmedia.org/2019/03/29/convert-your-iphone-heic-photos-to-jpg-through-the-photos-app/

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