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Picture this: You are in the middle of a development sprint, a client sends you a batch of assets they took on their iPhone, and you drag them into your project folder.
Suddenly, your build fails. Your browser won't render them. Figma is throwing errors.
They are .heic files.
Apple’s High-Efficiency Image Container (HEIC) is a marvel of compression engineering, saving gigabytes of storage on our phones. But outside the Apple ecosystem? It is an absolute nightmare for web developers and designers.
