HEIC to JPG Converter
Convert iPhone HEIC photos to JPG or PNG in your browser, many at once. The photos are never uploaded, and location data is not carried over.
How to use
- Drop HEIC or HEIF photos on the box, or click to choose them. You can select many at once.
- Pick JPG or PNG and, for JPG, the quality. Each photo converts as soon as it is added.
- Download photos one by one, or press Download all to get a ZIP. If you change the format or quality afterwards, press Convert again.
About this tool
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iPhones and many Android phones save photos as HEIC (HEIF with HEVC compression), which Windows, older Macs, many websites and most image editors still cannot open. Drop one or many HEIC files here and each is decoded on this page with libheif compiled to WebAssembly, drawn at full resolution and saved as JPG or PNG. Nothing is uploaded: the decoder runs in your browser, so private photos stay on your device.
JPG gives small files that open everywhere; the quality slider trades size for detail, and 85–92 is visually indistinguishable from the original for most photos. PNG is lossless and keeps transparency, but a 12-megapixel photo becomes 15–25 MB. Because JPG has no transparency, a transparent area in a HEIC (rare in camera photos, common in cut-outs) is filled with white rather than black.
The output contains only the picture. EXIF data such as GPS location, camera model and capture time is not copied into the JPG, which is safer for sharing but means photo libraries will sort the file by its new date. The rotation stored in the HEIC is applied, so portrait photos stay upright.
A HEIC can hold several images — a burst, or the still of a Live Photo next to its depth map. The converter uses the primary image, the one the Photos app shows. HDR gain maps are not applied, so an HDR photo converts to its standard-range picture. The decoder (about 3 MB) is downloaded the first time you convert and then cached by the browser.
Frequently asked questions
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The HEIC decoder is a WebAssembly build of libheif that runs in this tab. The photos are read from your disk and the JPG or PNG is created in memory; nothing is sent anywhere.
Does the JPG keep the GPS location and camera data?
No. Only the picture is written, so the location, camera model and capture time are removed. That makes the result safer to share, but photo apps will date it by when it was converted.
Which quality should I use?
90 is a good default: hard to tell from the original and roughly the size of the HEIC times two or three. Use 75–80 for smaller files to upload or email; use PNG only if you need a lossless copy.
Why is the converted file bigger than the HEIC?
HEIC uses HEVC compression, which is about twice as efficient as JPEG. The same picture at the same visual quality simply needs more bytes as a JPG, and many more as a lossless PNG.
What about Live Photos and burst shots?
A HEIC that holds several images is converted from its primary image, the one shown in the Photos app. The motion part of a Live Photo is a separate MOV file and is not affected.
Can I convert HEIC on Windows without this tool?
Windows can open HEIC after installing the HEIF and HEVC extensions from the Microsoft Store, and an iPhone can save JPGs directly if you set Camera › Formats to Most Compatible. This page needs no install and works on any system.
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