XnView Software

xnview wrote:please download again the heif plugin, it's fixed

I can now open every iPhone .HEIC format photo I've taken so far, great work, thank you!

The problematic files have XMP metadata with face recognition information stored. The other files do not have XMP metadata at all.
Thank you, it is good to know that this behavior is due to a feature (iPhone) and not a bug of some sort.


Pierre,

Is/was this a known, unfixable issue, or, is it ...

could you send me a sample file?
Hi Pierre,

Thanks for the quick reply!
In preparing a sample, I may have discovered the true nature of the problem. I started by photographing just an envelope with the word "FRONT" written on it with the front camera, and it opened! As this was repeatable, I was ...

I can't open heif pictures in xn-view 2.42 because the plugin heif is not loaded by the app, not because the pictures are bad.

iPhone rear camera .HEIC heif pictures open in XnView for me even though heif.dll is not shown in Info>Plug-Ins Information list.
(I have reported front camera photos not ...

XnView 2.42 with HEIF plugin works great for iPhone rear camera photos in .HEIC format, but when attempting to open front camera (" selfie camera") photos, the following error message appears:

"Format of the file <photoname.HEIC> could not be determined.
For displaying of less common formats, the ...