iPhone Photos to One PDF: HEIC, Order, Size, What Leaves Your Phone
Several iPhone photos can become one PDF in Safari, with no app and no account. Here is how HEIC to PDF handles order, page size, Live Photos, dates and locations, and what stays on your phone.
By PulsarKit ·
The short answer
To make one PDF from several iPhone photos, open HEIC to PDF in Safari and tap the drop zone. Pick the photos, set their order, choose a page size and download the result. There is no app and no account: the work runs in the phone's browser.
PulsarKit has more than 200 free tools for files, with no sign-up and no subscription. Most of them run inside the browser tab, including every tool named in this article. For JPG photos, and for an iPhone that hands the site a JPEG copy instead of the HEIC, the same steps work on JPG to PDF, up to 200 at a time.
What HEIC is, and why some sites turn it away
An iPhone camera set to High Efficiency saves photos in HEIF, an industry-standard format supported since iOS 11. Apple says it compresses better than JPEG at the same visual quality. In its iCloud download options, Apple calls this photo format HEIC.
The cost is compatibility. Apple notes that AirDrop, Messages or email might send it as JPEG if the receiving device lacks support. A form that accepts only JPG, PNG or PDF turns a .heic file away.
Settings, Camera, Formats, Most Compatible switches the camera to JPEG, and Apple says it applies to new photos. The ones already taken keep their format.
Order, page size and sideways photos
The pages follow the list under “Images in order”, top to bottom. It starts in the order the files arrived, not necessarily the order you took them. The arrows next to each name move a photo up or down; with a mouse, you can drag the thumbnails too.
Page offers three sizes. Fit image, the default, makes each page as large as its photo: one point, or 1/72 of an inch, per pixel. A4 and Letter place each photo on a standard sheet, scaled to fit inside the margin and centered.
Page orientation appears with A4 or Letter. Automatic gives a tall photo a portrait page and a wide one a landscape page. Portrait or Landscape makes every page the same, and photos of the other shape shrink to fit.
Sideways photos are a separate problem. A HEIC file can record its rotation twice, in the container and in an EXIF tag. A converter that applies both turns the photo twice. HEIC to PDF checks whether the decoder has already turned it, so the turn happens once. To fix single pages afterwards, see Turning a Stack of Photos into One Properly Ordered PDF.
Live Photos, dates and locations
Live Photo is on by default, and Apple says it records 1.5 seconds before and after the shot. HEIC to PDF uses the still: the main image in each file becomes the page. Extra frames are skipped, and no motion reaches the PDF.
The photo's metadata does not reach the PDF either. HEIC to PDF writes each page as a new JPEG from the decoded pixels. The capture date, camera details and GPS location stay behind. The document's own properties hold only the conversion time and the names of the software.
JPG to PDF works the other way. It places each JPG in the document as it is, so a location tag in the photo can travel inside the PDF. For photos going somewhere public, run them through Remove Image Metadata first.
Step by step in Safari
Tap the drop zone and pick the photos from your library or from a folder in Files. One batch takes up to 100 photos, 100 MB each and 500 MB in total. A JPG or PNG in the same pick is left out, and the page names it under the file list.
On a narrow screen, two tabs switch between “Images” and “PDF pages”. Tap a finished page to open it larger and check that every photo is upright. The first run takes longer: the HEIC decoder, about 1 MB, is downloaded once, then the browser keeps it.
We checked the page on October 20, 2026, in Chrome on a Mac. Two HEIC photos of 52 KB and 45 KB became a two-page PDF of 125 KB, in the browser, in about a second. With Fit image, each page took the exact size of its photo, 1280 × 800 points. The PDF is heavier because each photo goes in as a JPEG at quality 90. Apple says HEIF compresses better than JPEG. For a lighter file, lower the quality under “More settings”.
Leave “All images in one PDF” on; turned off, it gives one PDF per photo in an archive. On an iPhone, the download button opens the share menu, so you choose where the PDF goes. The tools listed under the result take it straight on.
What leaves your phone, and what does not
HEIC to PDF and JPG to PDF both run in the browser tab. Your photos are read into the page, turned into a PDF there and handed back. None of them is sent to our server. Traffic goes the other way: the page and, for HEIC, the decoder come to the phone.
While you work, the page also sends a small usage counter. Our privacy policy lists what it never collects, including the name or contents of a file and its exact size.
After that, it depends on the file you share. A PDF from HEIC carries no capture date or location from the photos; one from JPGs can carry what they had. If the result is too heavy to email, Compress PDF takes it next. That step stays on the phone too, since both tools run in the browser. To join it with a PDF made from JPGs or screenshots, use Merge PDF.
Tools used in this article
HEIC to PDFTurn the HEIC photos your iPhone takes into one PDF, with every shot the right way up and nothing sent to a server.
JPG to PDFTurn a folder of JPG photos into one PDF, in the order you choose, without re-compressing a single pixel.
Merge PDFCombine several PDFs into one document in the order you choose, without uploading anything.
Compress PDFMake a PDF smaller by re-encoding the images inside it, dropping duplicated objects and clearing metadata, without sending the document anywhere.
Remove Image MetadataStrip the GPS location, the camera details and the author's name out of a photo before you post it, without touching a single pixel.Read next
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