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HEIC to JPG converter
A free HEIC to JPG converter that also writes PNG and WebP, entirely in your browser. Every photo your iPhone takes is a HEIC, and almost nothing outside Apple's world will open one. Convert them to a format that works everywhere — right here, without the photos leaving your device.
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Pick the formats first, or keep the defaults. You can change the output at any time.
Add HEIC filesAccepts HEIC files.Select images
JPG has no transparency, so transparent areas become white. Converted files don’t keep EXIF or color profile data.
Runs in your browser. Your files never leave your device.
How to convert a HEIC
- Add your HEIC filesDrag them in or pick them from disk — .heic and .heif are both accepted. Photos AirDropped or copied off an iPhone arrive in this format even when Photos displays them as ordinary pictures.
- Choose an output formatJPG is preselected because it is the format everything opens, and it is what your iPhone would have shot in the first place. Pick PNG instead if you want a lossless copy to edit, or WebP for the smallest file at similar quality.
- Convert and downloadThe HEIC decoder loads the first time you convert one, so the first photo takes a few seconds longer than the rest — after that the whole batch runs at full speed and comes back as a single ZIP.
Questions about converting HEIC
Because HEIC stores its image with HEVC, the same patent-encumbered codec as H.265 video, which Apple licensed and made the iPhone default in iOS 11 while almost nobody else did. Windows still sends you to the Store for a codec extension to view one, many Android builds cannot open them at all, and a great many upload forms reject the extension outright. Converting to JPG sidesteps every one of those.
Yes, a little, because both are lossy and you are re-compressing once. It is rarely visible at the quality this tool encodes at, and a HEIC is roughly half the size of the equivalent JPG to begin with, so expect the converted file to be somewhat larger than the original rather than smaller. Convert to PNG instead if the photo is going into an editor and you want no further loss at all.
You get a single still image. A HEIC can hold a whole sequence of frames plus depth and portrait-effect maps, but a canvas holds exactly one frame and JPG, PNG and WebP have nowhere to put the extra data — so the first frame is converted and the rest is dropped. The original file on your phone is untouched, so nothing is lost there.
No: HEIC is input-only here, because no browser can write HEIC from a canvas — reading one already needs a separate decoder this page loads on demand, and encoding would mean shipping an HEVC encoder plus the licensing that comes with it. If you want your iPhone to stop producing them, set Settings → Camera → Formats to “Most Compatible” and it will shoot JPG instead.
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