What is the difference between .icns and .heic?
- Extension
- .icns
- .heic
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Apple
- Moving Picture Experts Group
- Description
- It is an icon image file used to show application icons in the macOS Finder and macOS dock. It contains one or several .PNG images and it supports 1bit and 8-bit alpha channels.
- An image file format mainly used in storing cell phone photos and they are saved in the High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF). They store one or more images and the metadata description for each image. Also known as .heif files
- MIME Type
- image/x-icns
- image/heic
- Sample
- sample.heic
- Wikipedia
- .icns on Wikipedia
- .heic on Wikipedia