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Convert HEIC to JPG

Choose a HEIC photo from your iPhone and download a JPG that opens everywhere.

Try it here, no account neededYour file stays on this device and is processed in your browser.

How it works

  1. Choose your imageDrag in or select the photo from your device. It is processed in your browser.
  2. Confirm the formatCheck the output format and the preview. Nothing is uploaded.
  3. Download the resultSave the converted image to your device.

Save and continue on the desktop

Download or copy your result here first. Open the free desktop to save to Files or use more features.

  • Change a photo’s format: HEIC, JPG, PNG, WebP
  • Save to Files when you continue on the desktop
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After you download, continue on the desktop for Files or the full app.

What Convert HEIC to JPG can do

Safari reads HEIC itself; other browsers fetch a decoder once

Choose a HEIC or HEIF photo, or up to 30 of them. A browser that reads HEIC itself (Safari does) converts at once; elsewhere a small open-source decoder (libheif, about half a megabyte) downloads with the first photo and stays cached for every later one. The JPG comes out at 92% quality, with a slider down to 50% if it has to be smaller, and the line under the result shows the size before and after. There is no background colour to pick: a camera photo has no transparency to fill.

The JPG comes out bigger than the HEIC

HEIC is roughly half the size of JPEG at similar quality (that is why Apple switched to it), so expect the JPG to land around one and a half to two times the original: a 2 MB photo becoming 3–4 MB is normal. One more thing before you send it on: re-encoding through the browser drops the photo’s metadata, so the JPG carries no capture date, camera details or GPS location. When sharing, that is usually a feature; if you need the date, note it first.

Where a .heic gets rejected

Windows will not preview HEIC until you install an extension from the Microsoft Store. Visa, passport and university application portals reject the extension outright, as do most job boards, print kiosks, older Android phones, and email and chat clients that show it as an attachment nobody can open. Every one of them asks for JPG.

Limitations

A Live Photo or a burst becomes one picture, the main frame: the motion, the other shots and the depth map stay in the original. Keep the HEIC if you may want them later.

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Questions

Does my photo leave my phone?

No. The conversion runs in your browser. What may download is the decoder, once, on browsers that cannot read HEIC themselves; your photo is not sent anywhere.

I have a camera roll full of these. Is there a faster way?

That works here: up to 30 photos at a time, all to JPG, downloaded as one ZIP. The decoder is fetched once rather than per photo, so after the first file the rest go quickly.

Which formats are supported?

This page converts HEIC to JPG. Other pairs (JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, SVG) each have their own tool, gathered in the related tools on this page.