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Convert HEIC to PNG

Choose a HEIC photo and download a lossless PNG for an editor that cannot open HEIC.

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.

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  • Change a photo’s format: HEIC, JPG, PNG, WebP
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What Convert HEIC to PNG can do

How to use

Choose a HEIC or HEIF photo and it converts straight away. Browsers that cannot read HEIC download a decoder once, about half a megabyte. The output is PNG, so there is no quality setting.

Expect ten times the size, or more

This is the heaviest conversion on the site. A 12-megapixel iPhone photo is around 2 MB as HEIC; the same image as PNG lands somewhere around 15–25 MB, because PNG stores every pixel and photographs barely compress losslessly. It is an exact copy of what the decoder produced, with no further loss, up to about 16.8 megapixels: a bigger photo (24 and 48 MP on recent iPhones) is scaled down to fit the browser, and the new size is written under the result. If you only need to send the photo somewhere, JPG gives you the same picture at roughly a tenth of the weight.

When PNG is the right target instead of JPG

When the photo is going into an editor that cannot open HEIC and must not be handed a re-compressed file: retouching, compositing, anything that will be saved repeatedly. To remove the background in nopa, a JPG is enough: the background remover takes JPG and gives back a transparent PNG. For sending a photo to a person, a form or a printer, JPG is the better target: PNG’s advantage costs about ten times the file size.

Limitations

PNG files are often larger than HEIC or JPG. The first conversion may download a small on-device decoder once.

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Questions

Do HEIC and HEIF both work?

Yes. iPhone photos are usually .heic; .heif is the same family. Both convert here.

Can I convert a set of photos for editing in one go?

Up to 30 HEIC files per batch, all to PNG, downloaded as one ZIP. At 15–25 MB apiece a full batch runs into hundreds of megabytes, and zipping does not make PNGs smaller.

Which formats are supported?

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