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Convert HEIC to JPG

Turn iPhone HEIC photos into JPG files that open anywhere, one at a time or in a batch, converted on your device.

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How to use HEIC to JPG

  1. 1

    Get the HEIC files

    AirDrop, email or copy the photos from your iPhone or iPad; on a PC, take them from the DCIM folder or iCloud Photos.

  2. 2

    Drop up to 10 photos

    Add .heic or .heif files of up to 25 MB each. Chrome, Edge and Firefox fetch the decoder once; Safari needs no download.

  3. 3

    Check the quality

    JPG is selected at quality 90. Lower it for smaller files, or switch to PNG, WebP or AVIF instead.

  4. 4

    Save the JPGs

    Each photo keeps its name with a .jpg ending. Download them one by one or all together as converted-jpg.zip.

Limits and Pro

Up to 10 HEIC photos per batch and 25 MB per photo, converted at full resolution.

Pro converts up to 500 photos per batch, with files of up to 4 GB each. See Pro

About HEIC to JPG

HEIC is the High Efficiency Image Container, Apple's version of the HEIF standard. Since iOS 11 in 2017, iPhones and iPads save photos in it by default, because HEVC (H.265) compression stores the same picture in roughly half the space of a JPG. The catch is support: Windows needs paid HEVC extensions to show HEIC, many Android phones, older Macs, web forms and print kiosks reject it, and plenty of photo editors can't open it at all.

The converter decodes each HEIC photo with libheif and saves a standard JPG at the same resolution — a 12-megapixel iPhone shot stays 4032 × 3024 pixels — encoded with MozJPEG at quality 90. Expect the JPG to be about one and a half to two times the size of the HEIC. Pictures are rotated upright, and wide-gamut Display P3 colour becomes ordinary sRGB, so very saturated reds and greens can look a touch less vivid. Camera data such as the capture date, lens and GPS location is not copied into the JPG.

Only the main still is converted. The short video of a Live Photo lives in a separate MOV file and isn't included; portrait depth maps, HDR gain maps and extra burst frames inside a HEIC are dropped. If you just want your iPhone to stop producing HEIC, choose Settings › Camera › Formats › Most Compatible, and new photos will be saved as JPG.

Privacy

Outside Safari, HEIC is decoded by libheif, an open-source WebAssembly decoder of about 1.5 MB that your browser downloads once from the jsDelivr CDN; Safari decodes the photos natively. The JPG is then written by MozJPEG in a Web Worker in this tab. Your photos are processed in memory on your device and are never uploaded or stored.

Features

Made for iPhone photos

Reads HEIC and HEIF from iPhone, iPad and recent Android cameras, single images or whole batches.

Full resolution

Every photo keeps its original pixel size and is saved as a quality-90 JPG by default.

Always upright

The camera's orientation tag is applied, so portrait shots don't come out sideways.

Location removed

GPS coordinates and camera details are not copied into the JPG.

HEIC to JPG: frequently asked questions

Why does my iPhone save photos as HEIC?
Apple switched the Camera app to HEIC in iOS 11 because its HEVC compression keeps the same detail as a JPG in roughly half the storage, which matters for 12- and 48-megapixel photos. The setting is under Settings › Camera › Formats: High Efficiency saves HEIC, Most Compatible saves JPG. Changing it affects only new photos, so existing HEIC files still need converting.
Why can't I open HEIC files on Windows?
Windows 10 and 11 need two add-ons from the Microsoft Store, HEIF Image Extensions and the paid HEVC Video Extensions, before Photos and Explorer can show HEIC. Many other programs, including older Office versions and photo editors, can't read it even then. Converting to JPG avoids the issue completely: every Windows app, browser and printer handles JPG.
Will the JPG look worse than the HEIC?
At the default quality of 90 the difference is very hard to see, even when you zoom in, because the photo keeps its full resolution. The JPG file will be larger, typically one and a half to two times the HEIC size. Lowering the quality to around 80 brings the size closer to the original with little visible change; values under 60 start to show blocky skies.
Does the JPG keep the photo's date and location?
No. The converted JPG contains only the picture; EXIF data such as the capture date, camera, lens and GPS coordinates is left out. That is good for privacy when you post the photo, but photo libraries that sort by capture date will use the file date instead. Keep the original HEIC if you need that information for your archive.
What happens to Live Photos and Portrait mode shots?
You get the still picture. A Live Photo's motion and sound are stored by the iPhone in a separate MOV video file, which this tool doesn't convert. In Portrait mode photos the background blur is already part of the image and stays, but the depth map that lets you edit the blur later is dropped, as are HDR gain maps.

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