A light, free Windows photo viewer that opens iPhone photos (HEIC) too Zola 2026-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 https://lightview.goodflow.dev/en/releases/atom.xml 2026-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://lightview.goodflow.dev/en/releases/0.2.0/ <h2 id="new">New</h2> <ul> <li><strong>HEIC/HEIF thumbnails in Explorer:</strong> with the installed copy, Explorer shows iPhone photos (HEIC, HEIF) as pictures instead of blank icons.</li> <li><strong>Two install modes:</strong> the installer's first page offers <strong>for me only</strong> (the default, no administrator rights) or <strong>for all users</strong> (administrator rights).</li> <li><strong>Preview pane and Details tab (all-users install):</strong> Explorer's preview pane shows HEIC photos, and the file's Details tab shows the size, date taken and camera make and model. Location data is never exposed.</li> </ul> <h2 id="changed">Changed</h2> <ul> <li>The Explorer extension does not decode photos itself; it hands them to the same sandboxed worker process as the app.</li> <li>Updating or uninstalling never closes or restarts Explorer. An old extension file still in use is removed at the next sign-in.</li> <li>If another program had registered a HEIC handler, the installer saves it and puts it back on uninstall.</li> </ul> <h2 id="known-issues">Known issues</h2> <ul> <li>A 12 MP HEIC without an embedded thumbnail can take more than 300 ms per thumbnail (measured on battery power).</li> <li>The for-me-only install has no preview pane or Details tab (Windows does not read per-user registrations for them).</li> <li>The preview pane does not redraw when its window is resized.</li> <li>Releases before code signing can show a SmartScreen warning on first run, and the all-users UAC prompt names an unknown publisher.</li> </ul>