This HEIC to JPG converter turns iPhone photos into JPG files on your own device. Drop HEIC or HEIF photos on the page, or choose them from your device, and each one is converted as soon as it arrives. Pick PNG instead if you need a lossless copy, set the JPG quality, and shrink the longest side if the photos are going to a website or an email. Download each file or, once two or more are ready, all of them in one ZIP.
How to convert HEIC to JPG
- Drop the photos on the box that says Drop HEIC photos here, or tap it and choose files. It accepts .heic and .heif files, as many as you like.
- Under Output, leave Format on JPG, or choose PNG (larger, lossless).
- Set JPG quality with the slider (50 to 100, starting at 90) and pick a Longest side, or keep Original size.
- Press Download next to a photo, or Download all (ZIP) to save every converted photo in one file called converted-photos.zip.
- Changed a setting after converting? Press Convert again with new settings and the whole list is redone.
Each row shows the file size before and after, and the width and height of the new image, so you can see the effect of a setting before you download.
Why iPhone photos are HEIC
Since iOS 11, iPhones have saved photos as HEIC by default. The format compresses images with HEVC, the codec used for 4K video, so a HEIC photo takes up roughly half the space of a JPG of the same quality. Windows needs extra codecs from the Microsoft Store to open HEIC, and many websites and online forms refuse HEIC uploads, which is when converting to JPG helps.
Choosing a size and quality
A 12-megapixel iPhone photo is 4032 × 3024 pixels. The Longest side setting scales the bigger dimension down to the number you pick and keeps the shape, so a portrait photo of 3024 × 4032 set to 1080 becomes 810 × 1080. Photos already smaller than the setting keep their size.
| Longest side | A 4032 × 3024 photo becomes | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Original size | 4032 × 3024 | Printing, editing, keeping a full copy |
| 2048 px | 2048 × 1536 | Web pages and online forms |
| 1600 px | 1600 × 1200 | Email attachments |
| 1080 px | 1080 × 810 | Social media and chat apps |
Quality 90 keeps photos looking like the original. Drop to 80 for noticeably smaller files. PNG ignores the quality slider and makes much larger files, so use it only when the photo will be edited again. JPG has no transparency, so any transparent area becomes white.
How the HEIC converter works
The page decodes each photo with libheif, the open-source HEIF library, compiled to run inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded, so the converter is safe for private photos. The decoder downloads once, the first time you add a photo, and after that conversion needs no connection. A photo taken in portrait is turned upright using the rotation stored in the file. A 12-megapixel photo takes well under a second on a recent phone or laptop, and the page works the same in a phone browser on iPhone or Android as on a computer.
What changes in the JPG
- The JPG is usually larger than the HEIC, because JPEG compression is less efficient than HEVC. Lower the quality to 80 or set a longest side to bring the size down. For a file under a set size such as 200 KB, run the JPG through the Image Compressor afterwards.
- Location, date taken, camera details and other metadata are left out of the converted file. That is useful before posting a photo publicly, but photo apps will sort the JPGs by the date you converted them.
- Live Photo motion, depth data and HDR highlights are dropped, leaving the still image.
- Recent iPhones capture a wider range of colour than standard screens show. The JPG is made for standard screens, so very saturated reds and greens can look slightly duller.
The guide to compressing images without losing quality explains how JPG quality settings trade size for detail.
Stop the iPhone saving HEIC
To have new photos saved as JPG, open Settings, then Camera, then Formats, and choose Most Compatible, and new photos won't need a HEIC to JPG step. To keep HEIC on the phone but send JPGs to a computer, go to Settings, then Photos, and under Transfer to Mac or PC choose Automatic.
Limits to know
Each file can be up to 60 MB, and a single image can be up to 100 megapixels. When a HEIC file holds several images, as a burst can, the first one is converted and the row says how many the file held. Very large batches use a lot of memory on phones, so convert a few dozen at a time. AVIF files, which also use the HEIF container, aren't supported. After a HEIC to JPG conversion you can change their exact dimensions with the Image Resizer or put them into one document with JPG to PDF. More photo and file tools are in Everyday Tools.
