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HEIC to PNG

Convert iPhone HEIC and HEIF photos to PNG when you need a lossless file for editing, design work, or a tool that accepts nothing else.

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

When PNG is the right target

PNG is the format to pick when the photo is going to be edited again, layered into a design, or handed to a tool that refuses everything else. Unlike JPG, PNG stores every pixel exactly as it was decoded, so repeated saves never accumulate the blocky artefacts that lossy formats build up over time. That matters when a photographed receipt has to stay legible, when a product shot is going into a mockup that will be exported several more times, or when a slide tool only lists PNG in its upload dialog.

The trade-off is size. A HEIC photo from an iPhone might be two megabytes; the same picture as a PNG can easily be fifteen, because photographic detail is precisely the kind of data lossless compression cannot squeeze. If the file is destined for email, a web page, or a form with an upload limit, convert to JPG instead — the visual difference is invisible and the file is a small fraction of the size.

How to convert HEIC to PNG

  1. 1

    Add the HEIC files from your iPhone

    iOS writes HEIC by default, and most desktop software still cannot read it. Drop in up to 20 files and the decoding happens in your browser.

  2. 2

    Confirm PNG as the output

    PNG is lossless, so nothing is thrown away in the conversion. The file will be several times larger than the HEIC it came from, which is the trade you are making.

  3. 3

    Download the PNG

    Use this route when the image is heading into editing or compositing rather than straight onto a web page. If the destination is a website, JPG or WebP will serve it far faster.

HEIC to PNG questions

Not exactly. HEIC is a lossy format, so some detail was already discarded when the phone saved the photo, and converting to PNG cannot bring it back. What PNG gives you is a guarantee that nothing more will be lost in the files you make from here on.

PNG compression is lossless and works best on flat colour and sharp edges — logos, screenshots, diagrams. Photographs are full of fine gradients and sensor noise, which lossless compression can barely reduce, so a photographic PNG is often five to ten times the size of the HEIC.

iPhone camera photos have no transparent areas, so there is nothing to keep. If you convert a HEIC that does carry an alpha channel — some screenshots and exported graphics do — PNG preserves it exactly, which is one reason to choose PNG over JPG here.

Only the still image is converted. The motion clip of a Live Photo, the portrait-mode depth map, and all EXIF metadata including GPS coordinates are dropped when the picture is re-encoded. That is usually a privacy win before sharing, but keep the original if you need any of it.

Yes, up to twenty per batch. They are converted one after another in your browser so memory stays under control even on a phone, and you can download the finished set as a single ZIP.

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