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Convert HEIC to PNG
Short answer
Converts HEIC and HEIF images to PNG. PNG is lossless, which makes it the right choice when you want to edit an iPhone photo and save it several times along the way. The conversion runs entirely in your browser.
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HEIC to PNG
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In 3 steps
How it works
Get the HEIC files onto your computer, whether they come from an iPhone, an iPad or somewhere else.
Drag them into the box or open them with “Choose files”. There's nothing to set up, since PNG has no quality slider.
Save each PNG on its own or all of them as a ZIP, then open them in your image editor.
Background
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When a PNG of your iPhone photo makes sense
A JPG is enough for most purposes. PNG pays off when the photo is headed for an image editor. Every time you save a JPG, the image gets compressed again and loses a little sharpness. You can open, change and save a PNG as often as you like without it getting worse.
Typical cases:
- You’re cropping a product photo for your online store, fixing the brightness and saving several versions along the way.
- A photo of a whiteboard needs arrows and labels before it goes into a how-to guide.
- You’re cutting out a subject for a collage or a flyer and need a lossless starting point.
- Your graphics program on Windows won’t open HEIC but works fine with PNG.
What to expect
A PNG gets big. The HEIC from your iPhone is heavily compressed, while the PNG stores the unpacked pixels without loss. That’s impractical for email attachments and upload forms. Use JPG for those.
The conversion doesn’t add quality that wasn’t in the HEIC. Compression already removed fine detail when the photo was taken, and it won’t come back. The PNG only makes sure that editing loses nothing from now on.
Transparency and colors
Like PNG, HEIF can store transparent areas. Some apps and graphics programs save cut-out subjects that way. The PNG keeps that transparency completely, soft and semi-transparent edges included. Camera photos from an iPhone are always fully opaque.
The iPhone records photos in the Display P3 color space. The PNG gets its colors in sRGB, the standard for screens, printers and the web. Your image editor shows them the way you know them from your iPhone. Only colors more intense than sRGB can display are limited to the closest shade.
Formats and limits
Good to know
- The result on this page is always a PNG. HEIC and HEIF are the expected inputs, but the tool handles JPG, PNG and WebP images just the same.
- The PNG stores the unpacked pixels without further compression, so no new compression artifacts are added.
- If the HEIC has transparent areas, they stay transparent in the PNG. Camera photos from an iPhone have none.
- Safari 17 or later and every browser on iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later unpack HEIC themselves. Every other browser fetches a decoder from this website once and doesn't send your images with it.
- The tool applies the rotation stored in the HEIC to the pixels. Colors in Display P3 are converted to sRGB, at 8 bits per channel.
- GPS position, capture date and camera model are left out of the PNG. HDR brightness data from newer iPhones is not carried over.
- 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.
When is PNG better than JPG for an iPhone photo?
When you keep editing the photo. Cropping, adding text or retouching with several saved versions costs no quality with PNG. For sending or uploading, JPG is more practical because the file stays much smaller. You'll find “Convert HEIC to JPG” under “Other conversions”.
Why is the PNG so much bigger than the HEIC?
HEIC drops detail that hardly anyone notices and saves a lot of space that way. PNG has to record every single pixel exactly. A photo full of fine texture, such as leaves or water, barely compresses like that. Expect several times the original file size.
Does the photo look better as a PNG?
No. The PNG shows what's in the HEIC, compression artifacts included. It only keeps new ones from piling up when you edit the image later.
Can I open the PNG in any image editor?
Yes. Practically every image program reads PNG, from Paint on Windows to GIMP, online editors and presentation software. Older programs that don't know HEIC handle PNG without trouble.