Like many others, I use an iPhone and the default image format is HEIC rather than jpg. I think it would be very valuable to have support for embedding HEIC files. As things currently sit, obsidian doesn’t even recognize the files when navigating to their location in the foder view, they don’t even show up.
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I agree that Obsidian should support heif format.
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Would love HEIC support.
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it’s not supported by chrome
There’s a pure HTML5 implementation of HEIC which might be of use.
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Until this isn’t build into chrome, it won’t happen.
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Has heic file support been added yet to Obsidian on the Mac and/or iPhone apps? I’m not using Chrome.
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Not yet. I believe the issue is that Obsidian uses Electron which uses Chromium which comes from Chrome, and Chrome likely won’t add HEIC support for political reasons, not technical reasons (Chrome comes from Google, HEIC is primarily used by Apple).
it’s not just political reasons. HEIC is not a royalty-free format.
There’s some hope that big companies will agree on the next format: AVIF.
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Would be really nice if Obsidian used the macOS Webkit on Apple’s platforms, that way support for HEIF would be free and included. I don’t get why it has to be Chrome.