Convert HEIC to JPG
Drop your iPhone photos here and get ordinary JPG files back. The conversion runs on your own device, so nothing is uploaded and there is no limit on how many you convert.
Drop HEIC photos here or click to choose
.heic and .heif — as many as you like
Why nothing leaves your device
Almost every "HEIC to JPG" website works the same way: you upload the photo, a server somewhere converts it, and you download the result. For a holiday snap that is harmless. For a photo of a document, a whiteboard, a child, or anything you would not post publicly, it means handing the file to a company you have never heard of, on servers you cannot see, with a retention policy you did not read.
This page does the conversion in the browser tab you are looking at. The HEIC decoder is compiled to WebAssembly and shipped with the page, so your photo is read into memory, decoded, and re-saved as a JPG without a single byte being sent anywhere. You do not have to take that on faith. Open your browser's developer tools, watch the Network tab while you convert a file, and you will see no upload. Turn off your Wi-Fi after the page loads and it still works.
What actually happens to the file
- You drop a
.heicfile. The browser hands its bytes to the page. - The bundled decoder unpacks the HEIF container and decodes the HEVC-compressed image inside it into raw pixels.
- Those pixels are painted onto a canvas and exported as a JPG (or PNG) at the quality you chose.
- You download the result. The original is never modified and never transmitted.
Why your iPhone makes HEIC in the first place
Since iOS 11, iPhones save photos in HEIC instead of JPG whenever the setting is left on its default. Apple chose it for a good reason: HEIC files are roughly half the size of a JPG at the same visible quality, which is a lot of storage saved across thousands of photos. The catch is that support outside Apple's own apps is still patchy. Windows shows a blank thumbnail or asks you to install an extension. Older photo editors refuse to open the file. Plenty of upload forms and websites reject it outright.
That mismatch is the whole reason this tool exists. You are not doing anything wrong; the file is fine. It is just in a format the thing you are trying to use does not understand yet, and JPG is the format that works almost everywhere.
Want to stop making HEIC altogether? On your iPhone open Settings → Camera → Formats and choose Most Compatible. New photos will be saved as JPG from then on. Photos you already took stay HEIC, which is where converting them here comes in.
JPG or PNG — which should you pick?
For an ordinary photo, choose JPG. It is smaller, it is what other people expect, and at the default quality the difference from the original is not something you can see. Pick PNG only when you have a specific reason: a screenshot with sharp text, an image you are going to edit repeatedly, or a graphic with hard edges where JPG's compression would smudge the detail. PNG files are lossless but several times larger.
A note on quality
The quality slider controls how hard the JPG is compressed. Ninety-two, the default, keeps the photo looking identical for viewing and sharing while keeping the file reasonably small. If you are going to crop in hard, retouch, or print large, push it up toward 100. If you just need something small to send over a slow connection, drop it to the seventies. There is no single right answer, only the trade-off between size and how much editing headroom you want to keep.
Common questions
Is it really free, and where is the catch?
The converter is free with no file limit. The site is paid for by ads on the pages around the tool. Because the conversion happens on your device, showing you the tool costs almost nothing to run, so there is no account, no watermark and no paywall.
How many photos can I convert at once?
As many as your device's memory can hold. Each high-resolution photo needs a chunk of memory while it is being decoded, so a phone will manage a handful comfortably while a laptop can chew through dozens. If a very large batch stalls, do it in two or three goes.
Does the JPG keep the date and location?
No. The converted JPG is written clean, without the original EXIF block, so location, camera model and timestamps are not carried across. Many people converting phone photos actually prefer this. If you specifically need the metadata kept, this is not the right tool for that job.
Can I convert HEIC to PNG or the other way around?
You can export to PNG here using the format dropdown. Converting a JPG or PNG back into HEIC is a separate job and is not something this page does.
What about HEIC videos or Live Photos?
This handles still images. A Live Photo's still frame converts fine; the short video attached to it is a separate file and is not part of the conversion.
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