LR mobile importing pictures as HEIC, Lr classic CC unable to read

[ASKproduKtion]

I have been using Lr classic CC on my recent iMac and Lr mobile on my iPhone X for some time without any problems. Photos taken on my iPhone are imported into Lr mobile and accessible on Lightroom classic as JPEGs, no problem. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, pictures are showing up in Lr classic as HEIC files that Lr is unable to edit, appearing as grey blank images with an exclamation error icon. Clicking on the exclamation gives a popup message "Lightroom has encountered problems reading this photo. You will not be able to make adjustments to the photo." I would of course like to be able to make adjustments, however I can't even VIEW these images, much less edit.

[johnrellis]

As first troubleshooting step, please do the menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the first ten lines or so here. That should clarify your next steps.

[ASKproduKtion]

Lightroom Classic version: 7.3 [ 1164630 ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en-US

Operating system: Mac OS 10

Version: 10.12.6 [16G1408]

Application architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 8

Processor speed: 4.2 GHz

Built-in memory: 32,768.0 MB

Real memory available to Lightroom: 32,768.0 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 5,953.9 MB (18.1%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 10,314.8 MB

Memory cache size: 1,923.8MB

Internal Camera Raw revision: 933

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Camera Raw virtual memory: 459MB / 16383MB (2%)

Camera Raw real memory: 460MB / 32768MB (1%)

Displays: 1) 5120x2880

Graphics Processor Info:

Metal: AMD Radeon Pro 580

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic CC

Library Path: /Users/andrewklug/Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom Catalog-2.lrcat

Settings Folder: /Users/andrewklug/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

Installed Plugins:

1) AdobeStock

2) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in

3) Canon Tether Plugin

4) Facebook

5) Flickr

6) Nikon Tether Plugin

Config.lua flags: None

AudioDeviceIOBlockSize: 512

AudioDeviceName: Built-in Output

AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2

AudioDeviceSampleRate: 44100

Build: 10.0x7

CoreImage: true

GL_ACCUM_ALPHA_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_BLUE_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_GREEN_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_RED_BITS: 0

GL_ALPHA_BITS: 8

GL_BLUE_BITS: 8

GL_DEPTH_BITS: 24

GL_GREEN_BITS: 8

GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384

GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384

GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS: 8

GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS: 16384,16384

GL_RED_BITS: 8

GL_RENDERER: AMD Radeon Pro 580 OpenGL Engine

GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 1.20

GL_STENCIL_BITS: 8

GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.

GL_VERSION: 2.1 ATI-1.51.8

OGLEnabled: true

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[Jim Wilde]

HEIF support was introduced in the latest Classic update (7.4) but only on MacOS version 10.13.x. So to get support in Classic you'll need to update both your OS and Classic.

[johnrellis]

Hmm, you're running LR 7.3, while HEIC support was added in the most recent version, 7.4.

You have these options:

- If you want LR to be able to handle HEIC photos, you'll need to update your Mac to  Macos 10.13 (High Sierra) and LR to 7.4.

- If you want to store HEIC photos on your iPhone but have them converted to JPEG when they sync to LR CC, you can try what the Help says and set the iOS option Settings > Photos > Transfer To Mac Or PC > Automatic on your iPhone.  But that hasn't worked for me and others.

- Otherwise, you'll have to set the iOS option Settings > Camera Formats > Most Compatible on your iPhone. This will cause your phone to store photos in JPEG format rather than HEIC, and they'll sync to LR CC as JPEGs (and thus to LR Classic).

[Mohit Goyal · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

We're happy to announce the release of Lightroom Classic CC 7.5 & Lightroom CC 1.5.

This update includes the support for HEIC image files on Windows platform.

Here's the list of what's new in this release:

Lightroom Classic CC 7.5: New features summary for the October 2017 and later releases of Lightroom Classic CC

Lightroom CC 1.5: New features summary for the October 2017 and later releases of Lightroom CC across devices

Let us know if the update resolves the problem for those affected and share your feedback with us.

Regards,

Mohit