How to use HEIC to JPG
- Choose your HEIC or HEIF photos; several at once is fine.
- Pick JPG for small files that open everywhere, or PNG for lossless copies.
- Select Convert.
- Download one photo, or all of them in a zip.
Why HEIC needs converting
iPhones and iPads save photos in HEIC, the High Efficiency Image Container, which stores the same quality as JPG in about half the space. Apple devices and recent Macs open it without fuss, but many websites' upload forms, Windows apps, online shops, government portals and older Android phones don't, which is when a photo seems to vanish or an upload is rejected.
Converting to JPG solves that everywhere. PNG is the choice when you need a lossless copy, for example to edit further, at the cost of much larger files.
How it works in every browser
Safari can open HEIC itself, but Chrome, Firefox and Edge on most systems can't. So the tool decodes the photos with libheif, the open-source HEIC library, compiled to run in your browser. It loads from this site, about 1.5 MB, the first time you add a HEIC photo, then stays cached. libheif is used under the LGPL-3.0, unmodified, as a separate file.
Photos come out the right way up, with the rotation an iPhone records applied. Converting re-encodes each photo, which also drops metadata such as GPS location and camera details.
Privacy and batches
Photos are decoded and converted in a background worker in your browser, and never uploaded. Add a whole album at once and download the results as one zip, each named after its original with the new extension, or download them one at a time. There is no limit on how many photos you convert, and no account is needed. Very large batches of full-resolution photos may take a minute on a phone.
Common uses
Uploading iPhone photos to a website that rejects HEIC, sending pictures to someone on Windows or Android, attaching photos to an insurance claim or a listing, or preparing a batch for a photo book or printing service. If the files are large, compress the JPGs afterwards, and for a document, put them into one PDF.
Questions
- Why do my iPhone photos end in .heic?
- iPhones save photos as HEIC, which is about half the size of JPG at the same quality. Many websites, Windows apps and older devices can't open it, so converting to JPG is often the easiest fix.
- Does it work outside Safari?
- Yes. Most browsers can't open HEIC, so the photos are decoded by libheif, an open-source HEIC decoder that loads from this site the first time you add a HEIC file. The photos come out the right way up.
- Are my photos uploaded?
- No. Decoding and converting happen in your browser. Converting also drops metadata such as GPS location.