HEIC to JPG Converter
Your iPhone saves photos as HEIC — great for storage, awkward everywhere else. Drop them here and get JPGs (or PNGs) that open anywhere, converted entirely on your device: nothing is uploaded, ever.
Drop your HEIC photos here, or click to choose
HEIC or HEIF from iPhone · converted on your device, never uploaded
Changing settings applies to new files you add. The quality slider applies to JPEG only — PNG is lossless and ignores it. Files are converted one at a time, in the order you add them.
What HEIC is — and why your iPhone uses it
HEIC (and its container format, HEIF) has been the iPhone's default photo format since iOS 11. It earns that spot honestly: at the same visual quality, a HEIC file is roughly half the size of a JPEG, so your phone holds about twice as many photos and your backups move twice as fast. The catch shows up the moment a photo leaves the Apple world. Windows, older software, many websites, printers and clients' systems still cannot open HEIC at all — the file arrives, and instead of a photo they get an error, a blank thumbnail, or a request to “please send that as a JPG.” Nothing is wrong with your photos; the rest of the world just has not caught up with the format yet.
Why convert to JPG — and the honest trade-offs
JPEG is the one image format everything understands: every browser, every email client, every upload form, every operating system, decades of software. Converting a copy to JPG is how you make an iPhone photo safe to send to anyone, anywhere. Two trade-offs are worth knowing. First, conversion re-encodes the picture — it decodes the HEIC and writes a fresh JPEG — so keep the quality high (the 92% default here) and the result is visually identical to the original in practice. Second, most embedded metadata does not carry into the converted copy: details like camera settings and location stay in your HEIC original, not in the JPG. That is why the working rule is simple — convert copies, and keep your HEIC originals as your archive. If you want to see what is inside a photo before you share it, our EXIF Viewer reads JPEG, PNG and WebP files and shows you exactly what they contain. And once you have JPGs, you can resize them for the web or email, or run them through the Image Compressor to shrink the JPGs further after converting.
Why “in your browser” matters more for HEIC than most tools
HEIC converters are a classic upload-trap category. Search for one and most of the results ask you to upload your personal photos to a stranger's server, wait while they are processed there, and trust that the copies are deleted afterwards — a lot of trust to place in a site you found thirty seconds ago, for photos of your family, your home and your documents. This converter works differently: the conversion library loads once into your browser and then runs entirely on your device, so your photos are never transmitted anywhere. You can prove it yourself — load this page, switch your device to airplane mode, and the converter still works.
Frequently asked questions
Why can't my PC open iPhone photos?
Because the photos are HEIC, and Windows and many older programs do not include a decoder for it by default — some need an extra codec installed, and many web upload forms reject the format outright. Converting to JPG sidesteps the whole question: a JPG opens on effectively every computer, phone and website made in the last thirty years.
Is quality lost when I convert HEIC to JPG?
JPEG is a lossy format, so the converted file is a re-encode, not a bit-for-bit copy. At 90% quality and above — the default here is 92% — the difference is invisible in practice, even side by side; losses only become noticeable at low quality settings or after many repeated re-encodes. Convert once, at high quality, from the HEIC original, and keep that original as your archive copy. If file size matters more than the last trace of fidelity, choose PNG instead: it is lossless, though the files are considerably larger.
What about Live Photos and multi-image HEIC files?
A single HEIC file can hold more than one image — a Live Photo's frames, a burst, or a depth map alongside the main picture. This converter takes the first, main image and converts that, and the row in the list will say “multi-image HEIC: first frame converted” so you know what happened. The moving part of a Live Photo is a separate video file on your phone and is not inside the HEIC still, so there is nothing extra to extract here.
Can I convert a JPG back to HEIC?
No — and there is rarely a reason to. Converting back would not restore anything the JPEG encode already discarded; it would just wrap the same picture in a less compatible format. HEIC's space saving is a benefit at capture time, on the phone. Once a photo is a JPG, keep it a JPG, and keep the HEIC original if you still have it.