My phone supports saving pictures in the new .heic format, which saves a ton of space. Sadly neither iNart android app nor the iNat web support uploading in this format. I have to resave all the pictures as jpeg. Which is fine for now but it would be nice if iNat supported it. https://en.wikipedia.…

OK, HEIC/HEIF images are supported in the web uploader now! HEIC photos taken with my iPhone 15 Pro work, as do HEIF photos taken with my Nikon camera. It would be great if people cant test with other photos just to make sure there aren’t any incompatibilities. Note that these images will be conver…

Support heic/heif images

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son_of_wasps July 28, 2023, 5:08pm 11

I second this, it happens to me too.

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Android; Images taken with HEIC format appears sideways when submitting

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Support heic/heif images

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