* [[Facebook]] supports the upload of HEIC but converts to JPEG or WEBP on display.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gallagher|first=William|date=2018-11-16|title=How to work with, edit, and share HEIC images without data loss|url=https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/11/16/how-to-work-with-edit-and-share-heic-images-without-data-loss|access-date=2020-08-14|publisher=[[Apple Insider]]|archive-date=2020-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813211920/https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/11/16/how-to-work-with-edit-and-share-heic-images-without-data-loss|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Discord]] does not support HEIC at all.<ref>{{cite web |last=Technik |date=2019-10-27 |title=Feature Request: Support for HEIF images - Discord Support Community |url=https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360054609851-Feature-Request-Support-for-HEIF-images |website=Discord Support Community}}</ref>
* [[Wikimedia Commons]] does not support HEIC.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Commons:File types - Wikimedia Commons |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=commons.wikimedia.org |language=en}}</ref>
== Patent licensing ==
{{Further|High Efficiency Video Coding#Patent holders}}
HEIF itself is a container that may not be subject to additional royalty fees for commercial ISOBMFF licensees. Note however that Nokia also grants its patents on a royalty-free basis for non-commercial purposes.<ref name="nokiaheiflicense">{{cite web |title=Nokia High-Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) License |website=[[GitHub]] |url=https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT |access-date=2020-05-07 |archive-date=2020-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112020815/https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT |url-status=live }}</ref> When containing images and image sequences encoded in a particular format (e.g., HEVC or AVC) its use becomes subject to the licensing of patents on the coding format.<ref name="ars">{{cite web |title=macOS High Sierra tech preview: A quick look at the stuff you can't see |url=https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/06/macos-high-sierra-tech-preview-a-quick-look-at-the-stuff-you-cant-see/ |access-date=2017-07-04 |date=2017-06-19 |quote=If there's one major downside to both HEVC and HEIF, it's that they're covered by patents that may need to be licensed for use in various apps and services. |archive-date=2017-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620001037/https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/06/macos-high-sierra-tech-preview-a-quick-look-at-the-stuff-you-cant-see/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="jpgtoheif">{{cite web |title=Converting a JPEG to the new HEIF format |url=http://jpgtoheif.com/ |access-date=2017-07-04 |quote=HEIF and HEVC are extensively covered by patents, which means there could be legal implications to implementing HEIF support, particularly in paid software or a hardware product. |archive-date=2017-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707214211/http://jpgtoheif.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="beamr-on-licensing">{{cite web |title=Apple Endorses New Image Format, HEIF |url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apple-endorses-new-image-format-heif-jan-ozer |access-date=2017-10-31 |date=2017-06-12 |first1=Jan |last1=Ozer |first2=Dror |last2=Gill |archive-date=2019-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321220755/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apple-endorses-new-image-format-heif-jan-ozer |url-status=live }}</ref>
