HEIC to JPG Converter
Drop the photos your iPhone refuses to share properly and get ordinary JPGs back. The decoder runs on your device, so the photos never go anywhere.
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Drop the photos in
Drag a whole folder if you like. HEIC and HEIF both work, and so do the Live Photo stills.
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Pick the quality
Balanced suits almost everything. Best quality for printing, smaller file for email and web.
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Download
One file, or the whole batch as a ZIP. Nothing was uploaded to produce them.
Why your iPhone photos will not open
Since iOS 11, iPhones save photos as HEIC — a newer format that produces roughly half the file size of JPG at the same quality. That is genuinely better, until you send one to someone on Windows, attach it to a web form, or open it in an older editor. Then it simply refuses to load.
JPG is the format everything understands. Converting is not a downgrade in any way that matters for sharing: it is a compatibility step.
Converting without handing over your photo library
Most HEIC converters work by uploading your photos to their server, converting them there and sending them back. Your holiday photos, your documents, your screenshots — all copied onto a machine you do not control, usually with a promise that they are deleted later.
This page decodes HEIC with a decoder that runs inside your browser tab. The photo is read from your disk into the tab's memory, converted, and written back to your downloads folder. No request carrying image data is ever made — which is why there is no upload progress bar and no daily limit.
About the location data in your photos
Every photo your phone takes usually carries EXIF metadata: the camera model, the exact date and time, and often the GPS coordinates of where you stood. People routinely post photos online without realising the file says exactly where they live.
The converter strips that metadata by default when it re-encodes the image. If you need the original date and camera information kept, turn the option off before converting.
Quality and file size
Converting HEIC to JPG re-encodes the image, so there is a quality setting rather than a lossless copy. At the Balanced setting the difference is invisible at normal viewing size while the file stays a reasonable size for email.
Expect the JPG to be larger than the HEIC it came from — often close to double. That is the price of a format everything can open; it is not a fault in the conversion.
Questions
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The HEIC decoder is a WebAssembly module that runs in your browser. Open the Network tab and convert a photo — you will see the decoder load once, and no request carrying your image.
Can I convert a whole folder at once?
Yes. Drop as many files as you like and download the result as a ZIP. There is no daily cap, because processing costs us nothing.
Does it work on an iPhone or iPad?
Yes, in Safari and Chrome on iOS. It is often the fastest route: convert on the phone, then share the JPG straight from the downloads.
Will the photo lose quality?
It is re-encoded, so technically yes, but at the default setting the difference is not visible at normal viewing sizes. Choose Best quality if the photo is going to be printed or edited further.
What about HEIF, or HEIC from an Android phone?
Both work. HEIF and HEIC are the same container with different extensions, and the decoder does not care which phone produced the file.
Can I convert to PNG or WebP instead?
Yes — change the output format. PNG for screenshots and graphics with sharp edges, WebP or AVIF when you want the smallest file for a website.
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