Feature Request: Support for HEIF images
Hello team Discord,
I have new phone now which support HEIC formate of images, which are smaller and better, would be please make support for this, at least show the image of it instead show it as a file?
Thanks.
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It's been one year since this request was made and I believe that the number of phones using heif has significantly raised and the lack of support makes sharing photos with friends extremely inconvenient because when you do so, all they see is a .heic file (even though the discord client previews the photo just fine - most likely due to using a system default image viewer).
So, are there any plans to support the format?
Thanks.
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Still doesn't support heic format :(
My phone by default takes photos in heic format and it's a hassle having to convert them into something less efficient just to share to discord.
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Of course, I also want them to add this support, but my small workaround so I don't have to convert every time... If when taking a picture specifically to send in Discord, swap the save output format before taking the picture, then swap back after taking the picture.
Here's to hoping that we get a nice Christmas gift from Discord this year...4 -
That work around works if you haven't taken a photo yet.. And at least in my camera app it's like 5 or 6 taps to get to it. Really clunky to do it every time. 😕
We probably won't get it for Xmas. Discord is built on Electron, which is built on Chromium, which at this point in time doesn't support this format🙁 See https://caniuse.com/heif
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Bumping this cuz I'm encountering it daily now that my phone updated.
its bonkers that this hasn't been implemented yet.
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All iPhones use this format so +1 from my side
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Indeed, on iOS it is a pretty annoying omission
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Many android phones use it too, pretty sure samsung phones use it by default after ONE UI 3.0
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Please add HEIC/HEIF support. I cannot share photos on discord from my Samsung Note10+
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HEIC/HEIF is a proprietary format that requires Discord (in this case) to pay licensing costs for supporting it.
Please just use PNG or JPEG instead.
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HEIF seems to be a better technology than JPEG, many phones have it enabled by default, so I think it's in the best interest of Discord to support it. Also from what I've read the patent licensing fees only apply to physical distribution of content
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Which phones?
I have a Nokia 8, OnePlus 5 and a Pixel 4a, none of them support HEIC from the default.
Canvas have the same issue and they haven't implemented it because of the licensing fees.From what I can tell it costs $0.4 USD or 0.2 USD per mobile unit. That's Per app istall to support HEIC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#Patent_license_terms
Discord had 300 million users 2020, say that 50% of those uses the mobile app.
That's 60 million USD if we go with the lower price
In reality it seems like Discord has 140 million users active in a month
That's still around 30 million in cost if 50% uses a mobile application
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All Samsung phones starting from at least 2019 support heif.
There's no license fee to Discord. It clearly states in the exceptions and distribution sections that software is excluded.
Device and OS manufacturers pay it, not random software developers.12 -
But we are not talking about HEVC, but only about HEIF
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format
And like almost every IPhone users have an HEIF format available.
They would at least make a converter, that converts the image from HEIF into JPEG to not have to select individual image (this is way how Samsung gallery converts from HEIF into JPEG) and send one by one
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It has been 2 years or more since this was posted and as previously mentioned, it is only becoming a bigger problem. Neither .heic nor .heif are going anywhere as formats so an update from Discord I feel is highly needed.
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Apple Photos converts to Jpeg if the application specifies that it handles jpeg.
Mxx sure then Discord can't add it because only Samsung and iPhone uses it. Google doesn't seem to support it on their Pixel Phones, OnePlus doesn't and Nokia doesn't.
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Samsung + Apple is already probably 80% of all mobile market. Add to that Windows 10 and OSX, both with native support for it and you already have 95% of all desktop market.
Sure, let's not add features that majority of users could take advantage of because a couple of minor players don't support it. Very logical.🤦♂️
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Discord could at least convert the picture to JPEG like how Apple does. Sending pictures from Samsung Gallery works because it converts the picture first before sending it to the app.
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In Samsung gallery it function image by image when you are in the detail and share it from there, otherwise it sends group heif images
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Still happening. HEIC is *i believe* Apple default, still shows as a file and friends with windows can't seem to open it.
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The new Samsung update takes all of my pictures as heif files :/
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Been dealing with this for a bit now. I send a picture, it pops up as .heic instead of a picture, and then I remember I did it wrong and have to send it again. Super annoying, non-optimal from all perspectives. A simple auto-convert for android would resolve my main woes.
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Bumping as this is near daily pain in the butt working with people.
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I don't want to be rude but original request is 2 years old - what have you been doing all that time? It's really annoying sice I got new phone I'm not able to sent pictures and no setting JPEG format in my camera is not option. One word - incompetency.
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Making tons of money on the fact the other players in the market suck worse. My own experience with support about a UI bug was so outright hostile, I can only eagerly await the inevitable successor to Discord.
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Bump! I don’t have an Android but a friend of mine does, and this is annoying, I have to open the file, download it, and upload it as a png or jpeg for him
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Okay this has been seriously annoying me in Discord for a long time. Been a Samsung user since the S10 and yeah this HEIC showing up as a file thing has been problem for both me and my dad with an LG phone, the camera takes HEIC by default and Discord is THE ONLY app left that doesn't support them now. Every single other app has been updated to support this function years ago.
We're talking Telegram, Signal, Twitter, Instagram, probably What's App (but screw Facebook so I'm not gonna check), Reddit, Imgur, Amino, Slack, built-in messaging app, hell even the Gmail app can auto-convert them. I can't name a single app on my phone or that I've ever even heard of that doesn't support them... Except. Discord.
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They are far too busy making money hand over fist to care about usability or general user experience. Once a viable alternative shows up to compete, this will bite them. They still won't care, of course, as they will continue to be distracted by swimming in their giant money bin.
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This is hands down my main annoyance about Discord.
Conspiracy theory: they won’t fix it as with Heic you pack more data for the same size, and are less likely to hit the 8mb limit => less nitro sold
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This file format has failed. Discord won't support heif unless Electron does, which in turn relies on Chromium. While some phone support it, 0 browsers have native support for it to this day. https://caniuse.com/heif
All browsers moved on to support AVIF and Jpeg XL image formats instead.
https://caniuse.com/avif
So our best bet is to hope that phone camera apps can save images in that format.-4
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