📱 HEIC to JPG

Step-by-step

1. Choose your HEIC files Drag them in or click to select — several at once is fine. Anything with a .heic or .heif extension works.
2. Let it read them On Safari for iPhone, iPad, and Mac they open immediately, because the system supports HEIC natively. On Chrome, Firefox, and Edge a decoder of about 1.5MB is fetched first — only the first file waits, everything after is fast.
3. Pick the output format JPG is the answer almost every time; every device and system reads it. Choose PNG only if you need lossless output or transparency, or WebP for the web, where files come out smaller.
4. Cap the width while you are here (optional) iPhone photos are routinely 4000px wide. For email, form uploads, or social posts, putting 1920 in the max-width field usually cuts the file down considerably with no visible difference.
5. Run it and download A single file downloads automatically; several can be taken with "Download all (ZIP)". The converted files do not carry the original EXIF, because they are drawn and encoded fresh.

When you would use this

Why nobody can open your iPhone photos

Since iOS 11, the iPhone's default photo format has been HEIC. It genuinely is better than JPG: about half the file size at the same quality, with support for HDR and richer colour. The problem is that full support exists almost exclusively inside Apple's ecosystem — older Windows needs an add-on, Android support is inconsistent, many upload fields reject it outright, and no browser except Safari will display it.

So "the photos from my iPhone will not open" is, almost every time, HEIC.

Two conversion paths

This page first lets the browser itself try to read your file:

• Safari on iPhone, iPad, or Mac — the system supports HEIC, so reading is instant, nothing is downloaded, and the whole process stays on your device.
• Chrome, Firefox, Edge — no built-in HEIC decoding, so a WebAssembly decoder is fetched automatically (about 1.5MB). It loads once per tab; every file after that is fast.

Worth noting: the people who need this tool most — holding an iPhone, trying to get photos out to somebody else — are exactly the group that downloads nothing at all.

Should you just make the iPhone shoot JPG?

You can. Settings → Camera → Formats → "Most Compatible" and every photo from then on is a JPG.

The cost is roughly double the file size, so the same storage holds half as many photos. If you regularly send photos to other people and upload them to various systems, that trade is usually worth it. If your photos mostly stay among Apple devices, keeping HEIC makes more sense and you convert when you need to.

Two things worth doing while you convert

Cap the width. iPhone photos are commonly over 4000px wide, but email, form uploads, and social posts almost never need that. Putting 1920 in the max-width field usually shrinks the file considerably with no visible difference on screen.

Know that the EXIF is gone. Conversion redraws and re-encodes, so the original GPS, timestamp, and camera model do not come along. That is helpful when sharing, but keep the original yourself if you want those as a record.

Frequently asked questions

What you might need next

Image work rarely ends in one step. These pair up with HEIC to JPG most often:

• 🖼️ Convert to JPG — PNG, GIF, and WebP to JPG
• 🗜️ Compress Image — Shrink file size while keeping quality
• 🕵️ View & Remove EXIF — See what your photo reveals, then strip it

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