iPhone photos, ready for anything
Convert HEIC to JPG
Drop your iPhone photos and walk away with JPGs any program can open. Converted inside your browser: nothing is uploaded to a server.
100% private. Your images are processed inside your own device and are never uploaded to any server. You can go offline after the page loads and the tool will keep working.
Up to 30 photos per batch and about 50 MB per HEIC file. The HEIC engine (~3 MB) downloads once.
How it works
Drop the photos
Drag the .heic files in or click to pick them. You can also paste with Ctrl+V.
Pick format and quality
JPG at quality 85 suits almost everything. Change it and everything re-converts on its own.
Download
One file or all of them in a ZIP. Nothing left your computer.
Why your iPhone saves photos as HEIC instead of JPG
Since iOS 11, Apple has stored photos as HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container), a container that uses the HEVC codec to hold the same picture in roughly half the space of an equivalent JPG. For the phone that is excellent news: twice as many photos fit in the same storage, at equal or better quality. For everything else it tends to be a nuisance.
Windows will not open a HEIC without a paid extension, many content management systems reject the upload, print shops ask for JPG and a good share of web forms only accept JPG or PNG. That is why “convert HEIC to JPG” is one of the most repeated searches by anyone who owns an iPhone and a computer that is not a Mac.
What this converter actually does
When you drop a .heic or .heif file, the page loads a HEIC decoder that runs
inside your browser, extracts the image, paints it onto a canvas and re-encodes it in the
format you picked: JPG, PNG or WebP. Nothing is ever sent to a server, and you can prove it: open the
page, switch off your Wi-Fi and convert anyway.
The conversion also applies the EXIF rotation, so portrait photos come out upright instead of lying on their side, a classic failure of quick converters. The original metadata (camera, date and especially GPS coordinates) does not survive the re-encode: the resulting JPG comes out clean, which is exactly what you want before sharing a photo.
JPG, PNG or WebP when converting a HEIC
- JPG is the right answer 90% of the time. Everything opens it, it is light, and it is what print shops, forms and messaging apps expect.
- PNG only when you need zero compression loss, for example a screenshot with fine text. Beware: a PNG of a photograph can weigh five times what the JPG does.
- WebP when the photo is going on a website and you want the smallest possible file. Every current browser displays it, but some older desktop software still does not.
About quality
The quality slider controls how much information the JPG keeps. Below 70 you start to see blocks in skies and halos around text; above 90 the file grows a lot without the eye noticing much. 85 is an honest middle ground for phone photos, and it is where this tool starts. Going to print? Push it to 92. Going on a website? Drop it to 75.
Frequently asked questions
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole conversion happens inside your browser, using your own device's power. The only download is the HEIC decoding engine, and that happens once. Load the page, go offline, and the tool keeps converting.
How many photos can I convert at once?
Up to 30 images per batch, with a limit of about 50 MB per HEIC file. That ceiling is not arbitrary: decoding HEIC is memory hungry and beyond that point mobile browsers start killing the tab. If you have hundreds of photos, work in batches of 20 or 30.
Do I lose quality going from HEIC to JPG?
A little, because both are lossy formats and there is a re-encode in between. At quality 85 or above the difference is practically invisible on screen. If it matters to you, push the slider to 92: the file will be bigger but the result will be indistinguishable.
What happens to the camera data and GPS location?
They are gone. Re-encoding writes a brand new file with no EXIF, no GPS and no XMP. That is a privacy win if you are about to publish the photo, but keep it in mind if you organise your archive by capture date: keep the originals.
Does it work on an iPhone or iPad?
Yes. Open this page in Safari, pick photos from your camera roll and save the JPGs to the Files app. Note that Safari cannot write WebP, so that option disables itself instead of giving you a button that would fail.
Why will my HEIC not open?
The usual culprits are burst photos or Live Photos holding several images in one container, very large ProRAW files from Pro models, or incomplete transfers. Try exporting the photo from the Photos app before converting it.