Digikam import from iPhone showing heic as jpg

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Hi,

I’m trying to switch to Linux (KDE Neon) from a Mac, and I’m using digikam 8.2 as a photo manager. But when I try and import photos from my iPhone, it shows all the .heic files as .jpg. Is this normal? If I import one it’s stored as a .jpg.

I can drag and drop a .heic file and it appears in the album as .heic, and the .heic file is added to my pictures folder. So I know it can import .heic ok.

Is there a way to import as native .heic files please?

Many thanks.

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Has this question ever been answered? I can’t find an explanation anywhere on the internet why this is happening and how to keep the original HEIC files.

For Live Photos™, digikam imports a JPEG and a corresponding MOV file with the same base name.

I assume that it’s not the iPhone that does the conversion and that there is an extra conversion step built into the digikam importer. Isn’t there a checkbox somewhere in the settings to skip that step? Importing from an iPhone seems extremely slow to me too, probably for that reason.