HEIC to JPG
100% privateTurn iPhone HEIC photos into JPGs that open anywhere. Converted on this device, never uploaded.
Not sure? JPG is the safe answer for photos and anything you’re uploading to a form. Choose PNG if the picture has a transparent background you need to keep.
The picture keeps its original width and height whatever you pick here — this only changes how hard the file is squeezed.
Advanced options
The picture is fitted inside this box and keeps its shape. It is never enlarged and never cropped.
A JPG cannot store transparency, so see-through parts have to become a solid colour. White suits documents and logos on light pages; black suits dark ones. PNG and WebP keep the transparency instead, and ignore this.
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Step by step
How to convert HEIC to JPG
No app to install, and it works in Chrome, Edge and Firefox as well as Safari.
Add your HEIC photos
Drag them onto this page, or press Choose images and select as many as you need. Nothing is sent when you do; the browser only gets permission to read them from your disk.
Leave it on JPG
JPG is already selected, and it is what forms, Windows and most apps expect. Choose PNG only if you want a lossless copy for editing; it will be several times larger.
Press Convert
The first HEIC fetches the decoder from this site, about 1.5 MB. Each photo then takes a second or two, because HEIC is decoded in software rather than by the browser.
Download
Save each JPG with the arrow under its thumbnail, or take the whole batch at once as a ZIP.
Why it happens
Why your iPhone photos are HEIC at all
Since iOS 11 in 2017, iPhones have saved photos as HEIC whenever the camera is set to High Efficiency, which is the default. HEIC stores a photo in roughly half the space of a JPG at similar quality, which is why Apple switched. The cost is that much of the rest of the world still can’t open it.
Where HEIC opens
Apple devices, recent Android phones, and Windows once Microsoft’s HEIF and HEVC extensions are installed (the HEVC one is paid). Many upload forms, older photo editors and most websites still refuse it, which is usually what brings people here.
Why your browser can’t read it
Chrome, Firefox and Edge have no HEIC decoder, because the video codec inside the format is covered by patents. This page carries its own decoder, so the conversion works in any of them, on Windows, Android or a Mac.
Stop it at the source
On the iPhone, Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible makes the camera save JPGs from now on. Settings → Photos → Transfer to Mac or PC → Automatic converts photos as they are copied to a computer. Neither changes the photos you already have.
Private by design
Why this converter can’t leak your photos
Almost every free image converter uploads your picture to a server, converts it there and gives you a link back. If that photo was a passport scan, a signed contract or a picture of your children, a stranger’s machine has now held a copy. This one works differently, and you can verify that yourself in about ten seconds.
Zero uploads
The converter is downloaded to your browser once. From then on it reads your images straight from your own disk. They never enter a network request, so there is no copy anywhere for us to keep, lose or be compelled to hand over.
Your location comes off
Photos carry hidden EXIF data — GPS coordinates, the camera’s serial number, the exact second it was taken. Converting rebuilds the picture from its pixels alone, so all of that is left behind. Handy before posting a photo of your own front door.
No account
No sign-up, no email address, no daily limit, no watermark stamped across your picture, and no paid tier that unlocks the format you actually came for.
To be precise about what does leave your device — because “100% private” is easy to say and worth checking. Two things, neither of them your image:
1. When a conversion finishes, this page sends one anonymous message to our counter saying “image-format-changer was used”. No picture, no file name, no dimensions, nothing identifying you. It exists so the usage number above is a real one rather than something we invented.
2. Google Analytics records the page view and that a conversion happened, the same as on every other page of this site. It is told which format and quality you picked and whether any image failed, and nothing about your images: not their names, their sizes, how many there were or the format they came in. You can block it and the tool works exactly the same.
Your photos are in neither. They never enter a network request at all — and unlike a promise, that is something you can check. Turn off your wifi, reload this page and convert an image anyway. It still works. No upload-based converter can pass that test. The one exception is worth naming: HEIC files need a decoder that is fetched the first time you use one, so that first HEIC needs a connection. Every other format works offline from the start.
At a glance
Tool specifications
| Reads | JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, HEIC and HEIF |
|---|---|
| Writes | PNG, JPG and WebP |
| Not supported | SVG, TIFF, ICO and RAW camera files as input; AVIF as output — no browser can write one |
| Batch | Up to 60 images at once, downloaded singly or as one ZIP |
| Maximum size | 150 MB in total; a warning above 25 MB |
| Dimensions | Kept exactly as they were, unless you set a maximum under advanced options |
| Rotation | Sideways phone photos are turned upright automatically |
| Metadata | EXIF, GPS and camera data are removed by any real conversion — a re-encode cannot carry them |
| Same format in and out | Passed through untouched, metadata included, rather than needlessly re-encoded |
| Animation | An animated GIF becomes a single still image, its first frame |
| Where processing happens | In your browser, on your device — nothing is uploaded |
| Works offline | Yes, once the page has loaded. HEIC needs a connection the first time only |
| Sign-up | Not required, not offered |
| Watermark | None |
| Price | Free |
Questions
HEIC to JPG, answered
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
Can I convert a whole camera roll at once?
Will the JPG look worse than the HEIC?
Why is the JPG bigger than the HEIC was?
Will sideways photos come out the right way up?
Does the JPG keep the location and camera details?
What happens to a Live Photo?
Can I turn HEIC into PNG instead?
Keep it handy
Save it, share it, or tell us what’s missing
Come back to it
Bookmark the page, or pin it to your saved tools so it sits at the top of the tools list on this device.
Something not right?
If an image wouldn’t open, a conversion came out wrong, or a format you needed isn’t here, tell us. The form opens with the tool already filled in, so you only have to describe what happened.
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