HEIC to JPG
Turn iPhone photos into files everything can open. Batch, with resizing and automatic rotation — and the location they were taken at is left behind. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop your HEIC photos here
Straight from an iPhone. As many at once as you like — nothing is uploaded.
HEIC is a genuinely better format than JPG — roughly half the size at the same quality — and that is no help at all when you cannot open the file. iPhones have shot in it by default since 2017, while Windows still wants a paid codec for it, most websites reject it on upload, and no browser outside Apple's can display it. Converting is usually the shortest route to a photograph you can actually use.
The reason to do it here rather than anywhere else is what these files contain. They are personal photographs, usually of people, and an iPhone records the precise coordinates each one was taken at along with the date, the device and its lens. A converter that uploads is being handed all of that. This one decodes and re-encodes on your own machine, and the converted file carries the pixels and nothing else — the tool tells you how many of your photos had a location in them, so you know what was there rather than taking it on trust.
One honest note about the machinery. This is the only converter on the site that needs a real decoder, because HEIC is a still frame of HEVC video and no browser outside Apple's ships one. So about a megabyte and a half of compiled libheif is fetched — but only when you actually convert something, never merely for opening this page, and never at all on an iPhone or a Mac, where Safari decodes it natively and the download does not happen.
How to convert
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1. Add your photos
Drop in as many HEIC files as you like, straight from an iPhone. Each is checked by its contents rather than its name, because phones and messaging apps often rename these to .jpg without actually converting them.
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2. Choose the format
JPG opens on everything and is the right answer unless you have a reason otherwise. PNG is lossless but several times larger. WebP is about a third smaller than JPG at the same quality, and not accepted everywhere.
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3. Set quality and size
90% quality is visually indistinguishable from the original on a photograph. Resize by longest side, width or percentage if the photos are heading somewhere with an upload limit.
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4. Convert
Everything happens on your own device. On an iPhone or a Mac the browser decodes HEIC itself; elsewhere a decoder is fetched once on the first conversion and then cached.
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5. Download
Save photos one at a time, or all of them as a ZIP. The originals are untouched.
Three things that catch people out
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↻ Sideways photos
A phone stores the picture as the sensor saw it, with the rotation kept separately as metadata. Software that ignores that note shows the photo sideways — which is why it looks right on your phone and wrong on a website. The rotation is baked into the pixels here, so there is nothing left to ignore.
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📍 Location data
Your photos know where you were. People share a converted copy far more freely than the original, which is exactly when that escapes. It is not carried across, and you are told how many photos had it.
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🔢 Files holding several photos
One HEIC can contain a whole burst, or a Live Photo's still plus a video frame. Only the first is kept unless you ask for all of them — and you are told when there were more.
Which format to pick
JPG unless you have a reason otherwise. It opens on everything made in the last thirty years, every website accepts it, and at 90% quality the second generation of compression is not visible on a photograph.
PNG when you want no further loss at all — it is lossless, so nothing more is discarded than HEIC already discarded. The cost is size: several times a JPG, and often several times the HEIC you started with. Sensible for a photo heading into editing, wasteful for one heading into an email.
WebP is about a third smaller than JPG at matching quality and is supported by every current browser. It is still refused by plenty of older software and some upload forms, so it is the right pick for the web and the wrong one for anything you need to be certain will open.
Frequently asked questions
Why can I not open HEIC files? +
Because almost nothing outside Apple can decode them. HEIC is a still frame of HEVC video, and while iPhones have shot in it by default since 2017, Windows needs a paid codec from the Microsoft Store, most websites reject it on upload, and Chrome, Edge and Firefox cannot display it at all. The format is genuinely good — roughly half the size of JPG at the same quality — but that only helps where it is supported, which is why converting is usually the shortest path to a photo you can actually use.
Are my photos uploaded anywhere? +
No. They are decoded and re-encoded entirely in your browser and no part of them is transmitted. That matters more here than for most conversions: these are personal photographs, usually of people, and they carry the exact coordinates they were taken at. A converter that uploads is being handed all of it.
Does this remove the location from my photos? +
Yes, and that is the default rather than an option you have to find. An iPhone photo normally records the precise latitude and longitude it was taken at, along with the date, the device and its serial-numbered lens details — and people share a converted copy far more freely than an original, which is exactly when that data escapes. The converted file carries the pixels and nothing else. The tool also tells you how many of your photos had a location in them, so you know what was there.
Will converting reduce the quality? +
A little, and you decide how much. HEIC is already compressed, so JPG means a second generation of compression — at 90% that is not visible on a photograph, and at the default this tool uses you would need to compare them side by side at full size to tell. If you want none at all, convert to PNG: it is lossless, so nothing further is discarded, at the cost of a file several times larger. What you cannot recover is detail HEIC itself discarded when the photo was taken.
Why is the converted file bigger than the original? +
Because HEIC is a more efficient format. It commonly reaches the same visual quality as JPG in about half the space, so converting the other way usually costs size — that is the price of a file everything can open. Lowering the quality slider or resizing will bring it back down if the size matters more than the fidelity.
Why do some of my photos come out sideways? +
They should not here, because this rotates them by default. A phone records the picture as the sensor saw it and stores the rotation separately as a small piece of metadata, so a photo taken sideways is stored sideways with a note saying which way up it goes. Software that ignores the note shows it sideways — which is why the same photo looks right on your phone and wrong on a website. This tool bakes the rotation into the pixels, so the result is upright everywhere, with nothing left to ignore.
What happens to bursts and Live Photos? +
A single HEIC file can hold several images: a burst holds a whole sequence, and a Live Photo holds the still alongside a frame of its video. By default only the first is converted, which is what most people want. Tick "Every image in the file" and each one comes out as a separate numbered photo. The tool tells you when a file held more than one, so you are not silently given a single frame from a burst you meant to keep.
Do I need to download anything? +
On an iPhone or a Mac, no — Safari decodes HEIC natively and nothing extra is fetched. On Windows, Linux or Android the browser cannot open HEIC at all, so a decoder of about a megabyte and a half is fetched the first time you convert something, then cached for later. It is never fetched just for opening this page, and never on the devices these photos come from.
Is there a limit on how many I can convert? +
No. There is no file size cap, no daily limit, no account and no watermark, because there is no server to pay for — the work is done by your own machine. The practical limit is memory: each photo is decoded to raw pixels, so a very large batch of 48-megapixel images is better done in a few goes than all at once.
What is HEIF, and is it the same thing? +
HEIF is the container format; HEIC is what you get when the pictures inside it are HEVC-encoded, which is what Apple uses. In practice the two names are used interchangeably and both are handled here, along with .heif files and the various brand codes that appear inside them.
Can I stop my iPhone producing HEIC in the first place? +
Yes. Settings, then Camera, then Formats, then choose "Most Compatible" — new photos will be JPG. There is also Settings, Photos, then "Automatically" under Transfer to Mac or PC, which converts on the way out. Both cost you the space saving HEIC provides, which is the trade.