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GNOME PPAImage Viewer (Eye of GNOME – eog) is updated in Ubuntu 19.10 and later.

Apps that support HEIF via libheif1 natively: If you would like to open HEIC files directly, the latest available versions of Geeqie, ImageMagick, gThumb and many more (see below) have built-in support. In this tutorial, you’ll see how to convert HEIF images to JPG or PNG with Linux commands. Apple uses this format for thier interactive dynamic wallpapers. One of the big advantes of the format is that it supports animation and works well to store more information compared to any animated GIF or APG.

According to the statistics of storage, Apple claims that HEIF with HEVC requires half of the storage with the quality like JPEG. HEIF and HEVC are both developed by MPEG or Moving Picture Experts Group.

HEIF is empowered by high-efficiency video compression (HEVC) codec and is also called h.265. It is a container format for an individual image and specific image sequences. HEIC which stands for High-Efficiency Image File Container (in HEIF, “F” stands for format). This image format doesn’t always work when you want to upload it to many websites or open on your Ubuntu Desktop. As you might already know, the HEIF was adopted by Apple in 2017 with the introduction of iOS 11.