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HEIC to JPG

Turn iPhone HEIC and HEIF photos into JPG files that open anywhere — Windows, older Android phones, print shops, and every upload form that quietly rejects HEIC.

Runs entirely in your browser. Your files never leave your device.

Why iPhone photos need converting

Since iOS 11 every photo an iPhone takes is saved as HEIC, a format built on the same compression technology as modern video. It stores a picture in roughly half the space of an equivalent JPG, which is exactly why Apple made it the default. The trouble starts the moment the file leaves the Apple ecosystem: Windows needs codecs from the Microsoft Store, most print kiosks reject it outright, and a surprising number of job portals, insurance claim forms, and school upload pages simply refuse the file without explaining what is wrong with it.

Converting to JPG settles all of that in one step. JPG has been universally supported for three decades, so a converted photo opens on any machine, in any browser, and in every piece of software that has ever handled an image. This page decodes the HEIC entirely inside your browser and re-encodes it as JPG at the quality you choose, so the photo never travels to a server and nothing is kept once you close the tab.

How to convert HEIC to JPG

  1. 1

    Add the HEIC files from your iPhone

    AirDrop or copy them across first. HEIC is what iOS saves by default since iOS 11, which is why the photo opens on your phone but not in the app you are trying to use. Drop in up to 20 at once.

  2. 2

    Set the JPG quality

    Quality 80 is the usual sweet spot: the file lands far below the HEIC original in visual difference terms while staying compatible with everything. Push it to 95 when the photo is going to print.

  3. 3

    Download the JPG

    JPG opens in every operating system, every browser, every printer kiosk, and every upload form written in the last twenty five years. That compatibility is the entire point of the conversion.

HEIC to JPG questions

Apple switched the default camera format to HEIC in iOS 11 because it stores the same picture in about half the space of a JPG, saving room on the phone and in iCloud. It is genuinely the better format — it is just nowhere near as widely supported outside Apple's ecosystem.

Windows 10 and 11 can display HEIC only when the HEIF Image Extensions and the matching HEVC video codec are installed from the Microsoft Store, and on many machines that video codec is a paid add-on. Converting to JPG avoids the codec question entirely: the file will open in Photos, Paint, Word, and every browser.

JPG is lossy, so the photo is re-encoded rather than copied. At the default quality of 85 the difference is not visible at normal viewing sizes, although the JPG will usually take more disk space than the HEIC it came from. Keep the original if you want the archival copy.

Open Settings, go to Camera, then Formats, and choose Most Compatible. Photos taken from that point on are saved as JPG. Everything already in your library stays HEIC, which is what this converter is for.

Yes. The page works in mobile Safari and Chrome: pick the photos from your library, tap Convert, and the JPG files land in your Downloads. Because nothing is uploaded it also works on a slow cellular connection, where a normal converter would have to send the full-size photos both ways.

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  • Describe an image and get it as JPG, PNG, or WebP
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