HEIC Converter
Turn iPhone HEIC photos into JPG or PNG, many at a time
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About this tool
Convert the HEIC photos your iPhone takes by default into JPG or PNG. Load many at once and they are converted one after another, then downloaded together as a single ZIP. Rotation recorded in the photo is applied so nothing comes out sideways, and for JPG you set the quality yourself. Everything happens inside your browser, so no photo is ever uploaded.
How to use
- Drop your HEIC photos in or tap to choose them - selecting many at once is fine.
- Pick JPG or PNG, and set the quality slider if you chose JPG.
- Press Convert and let the progress bar run to the end.
- Save photos one by one, or grab them all as a ZIP.
Frequently asked questions
- What is HEIC, and why will it not open?
- It is the format your iPhone saves in when the camera setting is High Efficiency. It stores the same quality in roughly half the space, but Windows and older software often cannot open it directly, which is when converting to JPG helps.
- Should I pick JPG or PNG?
- JPG for photographs - the file is far smaller at the same visible quality. PNG is lossless but balloons for photos, so it only pays off for screenshots and images with text or flat shapes.
- My converted photo came out sideways.
- Cameras store the sensor image as-is even when you turn the phone, recording only a note saying how far to rotate it. This tool applies that note, but some photos have none or have it applied already, so it occasionally misses. The rotate button in the list turns that one photo by 90 degrees and re-saves it.
- Why does it convert one photo at a time?
- Running them all together spins up one decoder per photo and runs out of memory - and long before that the page freezes so you cannot even see progress. Sequential conversion takes longer but keeps showing how far along it is.
- What happens to Live Photos?
- Only the first frame of a multi-image HEIC is converted. The moving part is a separate video file, which this tool does not handle.
Conversion and compression happen entirely in your browser and your photos are never uploaded. Because it all runs in browser memory, hundreds of very large photos at once can overwhelm the tab - split them into smaller batches if that happens.