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Convert HEIC to JPG
Short answer
Converts HEIC photos from your iPhone to JPG so you can open them on Windows, upload them to forms and send them to anyone. The conversion runs in your browser, and your photos never leave your device.
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HEIC to JPG
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Runs in your browser
Your browser converts the files itself.
No upload
Your files stay on your device.
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In 4 steps
How it works
Get the HEIC photos onto your computer, for example from your cloud storage, as an email attachment or through a Mac.
Leave the quality at 85, or raise it if the photos are going to a print lab.
Drag the .heic files into the box. If you use “Choose files”, press Ctrl+A or Cmd+A in the dialog to select every photo in a folder.
Download each JPG on its own or get them all in one ZIP.
Background
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Why your iPhone saves HEIC
Since iOS 11, the iPhone has saved photos as HEIC whenever “High Efficiency” is selected under Formats. That’s the default setting. HEIC wraps the image data in a HEIF container and compresses it with HEVC, a method that comes from video. A photo takes up much less storage than a JPG of similar quality.
On the iPhone, the iPad and the Mac you never notice. The trouble starts when photos leave Apple devices. Then your computer, an email attachment or an upload field ends up with a file the other side can’t use.
Where HEIC photos get stuck
- You copied your vacation photos from a Mac to a USB stick, and the Windows laptop shows an error instead of the pictures.
- A job portal or a city council form only accepts your photo as JPG or PNG.
- The online print shop rejects your .heic files during upload.
- Your grandparents get the family photos by email and see nothing but a blank icon on their older PC.
- You want to add site photos to a report, and your word processor doesn’t know the format.
A JPG solves all of these. The format is more than 30 years old, and every device, program and form can handle it.
What happens during the conversion
An iPhone often stores a portrait photo sideways and only notes that it should be shown rotated. Some programs miss that note, and the picture lies on its side. The tool applies the rotation to the pixels themselves, so your JPG is upright everywhere.
Colors are converted from Display P3, the iPhone’s wider color space, to sRGB. Very intense shades, such as a glowing red in a sunset, can look a touch less saturated. Everything else stays the way you know it from your iPhone.
The tool doesn’t write location, capture time or camera model into the JPG. For photos you want to share, that’s usually a plus, because nobody can read from the file where it was taken. If you need that data, keep the original HEIC files.
Newer iPhones store extra HDR brightness information with some photos. The tool doesn’t carry it over. You get the photo the way a regular screen shows it.
Formats and limits
Good to know
- This page always turns HEIC and HEIF into JPG. It converts JPG, PNG and WebP images to JPG as well.
- Safari 17 or later and every browser on iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later open HEIC by themselves. Other browsers fetch a decoder from our website once, the first time you add a HEIC photo. Your photos are not sent along with that request.
- Photos you took in portrait orientation come out upright, because the tool applies the stored rotation.
- iPhones store colors in the Display P3 color space. The tool converts them to sRGB so they look right on every screen.
- Location, capture time and camera details from the HEIC are not written to the JPG.
- For a Live Photo, the tool converts the still image. It doesn't accept the matching video file (.mov). HEIC files that hold a whole image sequence are turned down with a notice.
- Each image can have up to 50 megapixels, or up to 16 megapixels on iPhone and iPad. Larger images are rejected with a notice.
- All converted images together can be up to 512 MB, or up to 192 MB on iPhone and iPad. The same limit applies to the ZIP file.
Why can't I open HEIC photos on Windows?
Many Windows programs can't read HEIC. The Photos app needs extra extensions from the Microsoft Store to show them. As a JPG, the photo opens in any program without additional software.
How do I switch my iPhone to JPG?
Go to Settings › Camera › Formats and choose “Most Compatible”. Your iPhone then saves new photos as JPG, while existing ones stay HEIC. For copying over a cable to a PC, there is also Settings › Photos › “Transfer to Mac or PC”. If it says “Keep Originals”, you get HEIC files. With “Automatic” (the default), the iPhone converts the photos itself when you copy them over a cable.
Why is the JPG bigger than the HEIC?
HEIC uses the compression from the HEVC video format and needs less space than JPG for the same image quality. Your JPGs will therefore be larger. If file size matters, move the quality slider a little to the left before converting.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. Your browser reads the photos and writes the JPGs on your device. At most it fetches the HEIC decoder from our website, and your pictures stay with you.
Why does the tool reject my photo on the iPhone?
From the iPhone 15 on, photos from the main camera have 24 megapixels even at the default setting. On the iPhone itself, though, the tool only accepts images up to 16 megapixels, because Safari allows little memory for images there. Convert those photos on a computer. Up to 50 megapixels work there, so 48-megapixel shots are fine too.