HEIC to JPG

To convert HEIC to JPG, choose your iPhone photos above: the tool turns each one into a JPG that opens on Windows, Android, older software and every website, and removes location and camera data along the way. The conversion runs in your browser, on your device; nothing is uploaded. One condition: your browser must be able to open HEIC. Safari on a recent Mac, iPhone or iPad can; most other browsers can't, and the page tells you right away which case you are in.

Why your iPhone photos are HEIC

Since iOS 11, iPhones save photos as HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) by default, under the setting Settings › Camera › Formats › High Efficiency. A HEIC photo is roughly half the size of the same JPG at similar quality, which is why Apple chose it.

The catch is compatibility. HEIC opens fine on Apple devices, but many places still expect JPG:

• Windows needs an extra codec to show HEIC, and many people don't have it.
• Upload forms for government services, job applications, rental platforms and insurers often accept only JPG, PNG or PDF.
• Older photo editors, printers and kiosks frequently reject HEIC files.

Converting to JPG is the simplest fix: one format that everything reads.

Which browsers can convert HEIC

Browsers don't decode HEIC themselves; they rely on the operating system, and only some do.

When the page loads, the tool tests whether your browser can decode a HEIC image. If it can't, it says so before you pick anything. In that case:

• Open this page in Safari on a Mac, iPhone or iPad, and convert there.
• On iPhone, pick from Photos. When a web page asks for a photo from your library, iOS often hands over a JPG version automatically, so you may not need a conversion at all.
• For future photos, switch to Settings › Camera › Formats › Most Compatible. New photos are then saved as JPG.

We'd rather tell you plainly: opening HEIC in every browser would mean downloading a large extra decoder, so for now this tool converts HEIC only where your browser already can.

How to use the converter

1. Choose one or more HEIC photos (or drop them in on a computer). Other images your browser can open are accepted too.
2. The output is preset to JPG. You can switch to PNG or WebP if you prefer.
3. Adjust the quality slider if you want (40 to 100, default 90).
4. Download each photo, or all of them as a ZIP.

Your original files are not modified.

What changes in the converted photo

• Size. A JPG is usually larger than the HEIC it came from, often by 50% or more. That is the price of compatibility. If the file is too big for a form, run it through the image compressor, or shrink it with the image resizer.
• Quality. At 90, differences are hard to spot. Lower values give smaller files with visible softening in fine detail.
• Colors. iPhone photos are often shot in a wide color space (Display P3). The JPG is saved in standard sRGB, which every screen and website displays the same way; very saturated reds and greens can look a touch less vivid.
• Metadata. The photo is redrawn and encoded as a new file, so EXIF data — GPS coordinates, date and time, camera and lens — is not copied over. You can confirm it with the photo metadata viewer.
• Live Photos and bursts. Only the still image is converted.

HEIC, JPG or something else?

If your goal is a small file for the web rather than maximum compatibility, WebP is often a better target than JPG: smaller at the same quality, and supported by all modern browsers. For screenshots or graphics with sharp text, PNG keeps every pixel. For a photo that needs to open anywhere, from a printer kiosk to a ten-year-old laptop, JPG is still the safest choice. For other conversions, see WebP to JPG and PNG to JPG.

Removing metadata from iPhone photos without converting them is covered in how to remove EXIF data from photos on iPhone.

Photos you'd rather not leave in your camera roll

Many HEIC-to-JPG conversions happen for a form: a passport scan, a driving licence, a medical report, a signed contract. Once the upload is done, those photos usually stay in the camera roll, synced and visible to anyone who scrolls through your phone.

sigil. gives them a separate place. Photos you import are encrypted on your phone with a 256-bit key that only your sign unlocks, and EXIF and location data are stripped on import and on export, so anything you share from the vault leaves clean. Its private camera takes photos that never touch the Camera Roll at all, which suits ID documents and medical photos.