HEIC to JPG converter
An iPhone shoots in HEIC by default, and most of the world cannot open it. Drop the photo below and it comes back as a JPG that opens anywhere, without going anywhere near a server.
Nothing is uploaded
The conversion runs on your own device. Turn your network off once it starts and it still finishes.
No cap on the file
There is no server bill to protect here, so the only limit is your own device, not a plan tier.
No signup, no watermark
No account, no trial, and no upgrade prompt on the download. Ads pay for the site.
Up to 50 at a time
Drop a pile of pictures in together. More than one result arrives as a single zip.
Why convert HEIC to JPG?
Apple switched the iPhone camera to HEIC in 2017 because it stores the same photo in about half the space. The trade was that almost nothing outside Apple could read it. Windows still asks you to install an extension from the Microsoft Store, plenty of web forms reject the file outright, and the friend you sent it to sees a grey box.
The usual workaround is to email the photo to yourself, because Mail quietly converts it on the way. That works and it is also absurd: you are uploading a private photo to two mail servers to change a file extension. This page does the same conversion on your own device, in about a second.
JPG is the right target when the point is that it has to open. It has been the default photo format since the 1990s, and there is no device, no browser and no upload form that turns it away.
What changes in the file
- The pixels stay the same size. A 12-megapixel photo comes out 12 megapixels; nothing is cropped or scaled.
- The file usually gets bigger, not smaller. HEIC is the more efficient format, so a 2 MB HEIC often lands around 3 MB as a JPG. That is the price of a format everything can read. If size is the problem rather than compatibility, the image compressor is the tool you want.
- Photos taken upright stay upright. Rotation in a HEIC lives in the container rather than in EXIF, which is exactly what a lot of converters get wrong and hand you a photo on its side.
How to convert
- Check that JPG is the selected format above. It is picked for you on this page.
- Drop your HEIC photos into the box, or click it to browse.
- Download the result. It never left your device.
Frequently asked questions
Why will Windows not open my iPhone photos?
HEIC uses HEVC compression, which is patent-encumbered, so Windows does not ship a decoder for it by default. Microsoft offers a paid extension in its store. Converting to JPG sidesteps the whole question.
Will the photo lose quality?
A little, in the way any re-encode does. JPG is lossy, so the picture is decoded and written again. At the quality this page uses, the difference is not something you will see on a photo; it shows up on hard edges and flat colour, which phone photos do not have much of.
Can I do a whole camera roll at once?
Yes, up to 50 photos in one go. They are converted one after another so a phone does not run out of memory, and the results come back as a single zip.
Does this work on an iPhone or iPad?
Yes. Safari can decode HEIC itself, so on Apple devices the conversion runs on the built-in decoder and there is nothing extra to download.
Is JPEG the same thing as JPG?
Identical. The format is JPEG; the three-letter extension is a leftover from MS-DOS, which allowed no more than three. Both spellings mean the same file, and anything that opens one opens the other.
Other conversions
- HEIC to PNG For when the next tool in the chain insists on PNG.
- HEIC to WebP Keeps HEIC-like file sizes, but the web can actually read it.
- WebP to JPG The image you saved from a website that nothing will open.
- PNG to JPG For the screenshot that is too big to attach.
Or open the image converter to pick any combination, and the image compressor when the problem is size rather than format.