Nobody is perfect, and not even Apple. Fortunately, its firmwares are very stable and robust, and code bugs are rarely found. They are always in constant updates. These are usually added enhancements, and security protections. The next one will be to solve a small localized problem with the image import.
macOS has a small bug since version 10.14.6. This error causes the size to increase by 1.5 MB when importing images from iOS. It was discovered in the native Image Capture application, but it also affects other programs that import photos.
A few days ago we comment that a bug has been discovered in the macOS imaging application. Said «bug» add 1,5MB data to each transferred photo from iOS devices to macOS. It "inflates" the image file by gigabytes, unnecessarily taking up a large amount of storage space. Now it is reported that the bug not only affects the image capture application, but also affects more applications on macOS 10.14.6 and later versions.
This system failure affects almost all macOS applications that import photos from iOS devices and cameras. Affected applications include Affinity Photo, Adobe Lightroom, iPhoto, PhaseOne Media Pro, and Aperture applications.
Esto affects other applications Also because the error is within the framework of Apple's ImageCaptureCore. This framework is part of macOS that all developers use to connect to cameras to import photos. It seems that the Apple Photo application is the only application that is saved from the failure. The reason is that the Photos app uses an undocumented API for image conversion from iOS devices.
Update shortly
The company knows about the error and will correct it shortly. So far there has been no update, but it is known that they are working on it. The bug only affects when HEIC files are converted to JPG format. When the conversion occurs, the error add empty 1,5MB data to each photo that users copy to their Mac. The only current solution is to prevent your iOS devices from taking photos in the HEIC format so that when transferring them you do not have to convert them to JPG format.
Not a serious mistake, but you must know it and thus avoid wasting the capacity of your Mac. Maybe in a photo or two you do not care, but if you download 100 images, and all are inflated with 1.5 MB more, what a grace.
