P: Support for HEIC file format (Windows)

Yes these codecs are available, but to view HEIC files you need the HEVC codec as well and that sells for $0.99. With that paid, my Lightroom still refuses to work with HEIC. Microsoft did the homework and asks for a small fee, but Adobe still didn't manage to include this, although Windows now officially supports the formats.

I just searched and it appears sometime between March, when Microsoft released a preview build targeted for final release in the fall, and now Microsoft has released free add-on codecs for HEIC images and HEVC video, which you need to download from the Microsoft Store:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-open-heic-and-hevc-files-windows-10s-photos-app

I didn't see any article indicating that these codecs were built-in to Windows releases yet.  (I don't work for Adobe.)

I keep seeing people from Adobe saying windows doesn't support it by my vanilla windows 10 install movies & TV app plays the videos that lightroom can't recognize just fine.

Right, LR 7 supports HEIC on Macos but not Windows.  Windows doesn't yet support HEIC, though Microsoft has been testing it in its "preview builds" for many months.  As soon as Windows supports it officially, I'd expect LR to support it soon after.

I just upgraded from standlone lightroom classic to the new lightroom classic cc for the sole purpose of getting HEIC support for my iphones on my PC, but even after upgrading, it's not supported.  Time for a refund I guess.

Charlie, why don’t you guys just implement HEIC in the Windows version and all these debates would be meaningless? Now I have heic files in the cloud imported thru the iOS app but I can’t use them in Lightoom...

It's too late and the partial support is not enough. I've moved over to Photos for my daily photos, keeping only Lightroom for select shootings. It came too late, with a deafening silence while we had to wait, and a bad attitude from the fan boys in the forum, that asked why didn't have other needs than ours or wouldn't just accept their workarounds and keep it shut.

Gary, are you on Windows?  HEIC is now supported on Mac.

Suggestions to capture in DNG are classic redirection.  There are reasons to capture and use HEIF.  I have hundreds or thousands of these files on my wife's iPhone that I'd like to move off and into LR.  I want to preserve the live video (which she loves in some of her pics) as an integral part of the image.  I don't want to manage them a separate objects and tag them separately (at least not by default).  HEIF files are a fact and LR Classic needs to get off the pot and support them well.

Charlie - yes, storage space. One photo where I compared was 800kb as HEIC, and 1.5MB as a JPG. On the phone, where storage space is limited and precious, that makes a big difference.

What format is used internally on the phone doesn't matter - as soon as it leaves the phone, it should result in a useful file though. Apple made sure of that, with the Export/Sync options. Dropbox has its own option on how to handle HEIC for Camera Uploads (keep or convert to JPEG). If my computer supported HEIC I'd turn that setting on the phone off.

I see no reason why Adobe stopped respecting Apple's setting on the phone with the latest LR CC update. How LR CC behaved in the past was completely logical. Now it's broken.