Though the company offers an extension in the Windows Store that you can download and install to view .HEIF files, and it’s free, it won’t work any magic for .HEIC files, the fancy container ...

You can view and edit HEIC files in Windows’ built-in Photos app, but you may have to tell your computer that you want to use Photos to open this type of file.

However, you can use the winget command to remove them from Windows 11. To fix HEVC and HEIF issues on Windows 11, use these steps: Open Start.

And for good reason — one of the team’s additions to the toolkit, the HEIC to JPG Converter, significantly outperforms Microsoft’s built-in conversion tool in every aspect.