I’m using Adobe Bridge as a stand-alone software to add and maintain metadata of photos that I save in a Finder folder structure. I’m not using Photoshop, Camera Raw or other Adobe applications.

Until recently, I was able to add metadata to HEIC files in Adobe Bridge that originate from my iPhone or that I created out of RAW files from my Nikon DLSR in Pixelmator Pro. For whatever reason, it’s no longer possible to edit the metadata of HEIC photos which I previously edited via Adobe Bridge. It’s still possible to see them (except in the ‘Keywords’ Panel) but they are no longer editable fields. When now trying to assign a new keyword, the following error message is shown: “Cannot apply metadata - The file XY cannot store XMP metadata. No changes will occur.”

This however was possible just a few weeks back (I assume with the previous version of Adobe Bridge). I would have uploaded a reference file but the uploader doesn't support HEIC files.

FIXING REQUEST: Please fix this issue as soon as possible to make proper HEIC metadata editing possible again and without the creation of separate XMP sidecar files (referring to this issue: https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/kb/xmp-file-jpeg.html). Until then, Adobe Bridge is no longer usable to me and I am already researching for alternatives.

Version of Adobe Bridge: 14.1.2.300
Operating system: macOS 14.6.1 (23G93)
Device: MacBook Pro 14-inch 2021 with Apple M1 Pro