P: Ability to export files in the HEIC/HEIF formats

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Now that HEIC is starting to get some reasonable adoption after iOS 11, it’s great that Lightroom Classic CC can import those files. But it would be even better if it could export them too. For various reasons, I end up exporting from Lightroom to Apple Photos.app, and it seems like a no-brainer for me to use HEIC if Lightroom supported them. (Why not save the extra disk space?)

I know I can export to TIFF or some other lossless format and then use a third-party utility to convert them to HEIC, but that’s too much of a pain. Having native support in the Export workflow would be ideal.

[Benjamin34616947orjp]

Mr. Flohr,

I am now running ios 18's beta and the .JXL format is completely unusable after exporting from Lightroom.  Like it's TRASHED!  Avif has limited functionality, so what does Adobe plan to do to keep Apple subscribers?

[Lumigraphics]

AVIF and JPEGXL can be converted pretty easily on the Mac, but refusing to support HEIC is ridiculous.

[nunyanunya]

I believe the HEIF format is more compact and efficient, and that Lightroom mobile should be able to support it.

[matthornstein]

How do you convert it in a way that it shows up properly on the photos app?

So far all the conversions I did never look the same way it in the Develop module