HEIC to JPG
Convert HEIC format.
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What is HEIC?
HEIC is the container Apple has used for iPhone photos since iOS 11, holding images encoded with HEIF — High Efficiency Image Format, built on the same compression technology as HEVC video. It is genuinely better than JPEG: roughly half the file size at the same visual quality, with support for 16-bit colour depth, transparency, image sequences, and depth maps for portrait-mode effects.
The problem is everything that is not an Apple device. Windows needs a paid codec extension, many web upload forms reject the format outright, older Android builds cannot open it, and plenty of professional software still ignores it. Converting to JPEG means decoding the HEIF data and re-encoding it as a universally readable file — larger, slightly lossier, and openable by absolutely anything.
Why we built this tool
The situation is always the same: you need to send an iPhone photo somewhere, and the other end cannot read it. A job application portal, an insurance claim, a government form, a colleague on Windows.
Those photos are personal, and HEIC files from a phone carry extensive metadata — the exact GPS coordinates where the picture was taken, the timestamp, and the device. Uploading them to a free converter hands all of that to a stranger. We decode HEIC in your browser using a WebAssembly decoder and re-encode to JPEG on a canvas, entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded, there is no batch limit, and the canvas re-encode leaves the location data behind.
Tips and common mistakes
- Set quality to 85 or above for photographs you may print or edit later.
- Turn on "Most Compatible" in your iPhone's camera settings if you would rather shoot JPEG in the first place.
- Live Photos convert to a single still; the motion component is not carried over.
- Converting through a canvas drops location metadata, which is usually welcome but worth knowing if you wanted it.
Quick start: using HEIC to JPG
- Add your .heic files — several at once if you have a batch.
- Choose the JPEG quality; 85 to 90 per cent keeps photographs looking right.
- Run the conversion and wait while each file is decoded locally.
- Check one converted photo at full size before relying on the rest.
- Download the JPEGs and send them on.
To check what metadata a photo carries before sharing it, use Extract EXIF, and Remove EXIF to strip it.