diff --git src/wp-includes/functions.php src/wp-includes/functions.php
index 5a2abd808c..a9ae5c93e6 100644
--- src/wp-includes/functions.php
+++ src/wp-includes/functions.php
@@ -3166,7 +3166,7 @@ function wp_get_ext_types() {
 	return apply_filters(
 		'ext2type',
 		array(
-			'image'       => array( 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'jpe', 'gif', 'png', 'bmp', 'tif', 'tiff', 'ico' ),
+			'image'       => array( 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'jpe', 'gif', 'png', 'bmp', 'tif', 'tiff', 'ico', 'heic' ),
 			'audio'       => array( 'aac', 'ac3', 'aif', 'aiff', 'flac', 'm3a', 'm4a', 'm4b', 'mka', 'mp1', 'mp2', 'mp3', 'ogg', 'oga', 'ram', 'wav', 'wma' ),
 			'video'       => array( '3g2', '3gp', '3gpp', 'asf', 'avi', 'divx', 'dv', 'flv', 'm4v', 'mkv', 'mov', 'mp4', 'mpeg', 'mpg', 'mpv', 'ogm', 'ogv', 'qt', 'rm', 'vob', 'wmv' ),
 			'document'    => array( 'doc', 'docx', 'docm', 'dotm', 'odt', 'pages', 'pdf', 'xps', 'oxps', 'rtf', 'wp', 'wpd', 'psd', 'xcf' ),