Technical MIME Specification & Web Server Guide

image/heic

Technical overview, official IANA specification, header magic bytes, and server configuration snippets for .HEIC files (High Efficiency Image Container).

File Extension

.heic

Content-Type Header

image/heic

Format Category

Images

Standard Specification

RFC 2397 / ISO/IEC 23008-12

Description & Usage

Apple iOS camera image format using HEVC compression.

HTTP Server Content-Type Configuration Code

# Nginx mime.types configuration for .heic
types {
    image/heic    heic;
}

OS Compatibility Matrix

Windows

macOS

Linux

Android

iOS

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Preguntas frecuentes

Respuestas claras a las preguntas más habituales.

The official MIME content type for .heic files is "image/heic". Web servers use this header to instruct browsers how to render or process .heic data.