HEIC Converter
The format an iPhone saves photos in: half the size of JPEG, and unreadable by half the software people send them to.
6 tools
Convert from HEIC
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.
Image MetadataSee the camera, the exposure, the date and the GPS location stored inside a photo. It is read in this tab, never uploaded.
Convert to WebPTurn JPG, PNG, GIF, AVIF, BMP and HEIC images into WebP and cut a quarter to a third of their weight, without uploading anything.
HEIC to JPGTurn iPhone HEIC photos into JPG files that open everywhere, with the date and the GPS tag kept, and the picture the right way up.
HEIC to PNGConvert iPhone HEIC photos to lossless PNG when the next step is editing, such as background removal, layering or print, rather than sharing.
Convert to AVIFRe-encode JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and HEIC as AVIF, the smallest of the widely supported web formats, with transparency intact.Why your phone uses it
HEIC is Apple's name for a picture stored in the HEIF container using HEVC compression. It stores a photograph at roughly half the size of the equivalent JPEG with no visible difference, and it holds things JPEG cannot: depth maps, bursts, live photos, 10-bit colour. On the phone this is invisible and entirely good: you get twice as many photos in the same storage. It stops being invisible the moment the file leaves the phone.
Why everything else chokes on it
HEVC is patent-encumbered, which kept it out of a great deal of software: Windows needs a paid codec from the Store, many web forms reject the extension outright, older Android phones cannot open it, and plenty of print shops will simply say no. That is the entire reason this hub exists. The fix is almost always to convert to JPEG before sending, and to keep the HEIC original on the phone where it costs half the space.
What is lost in the conversion
Converting HEIC to JPEG loses the extras rather than the picture: depth information, the live-photo video, and the wider colour range if the photo used it. The visible image survives, and at high quality the difference is invisible to the eye. What does change is size. Expect the JPEG to be roughly twice the bytes of the HEIC it came from. If the destination accepts modern formats, converting to WEBP or AVIF instead keeps most of the size advantage while being readable nearly everywhere.
Open HEIC on Windows and Android
Windows 10 and 11 open HEIC only after the HEIF Image Extensions are installed from the Microsoft Store, and on many machines the HEVC video extension on top of that; without them Photos shows a blank thumbnail and Explorer refuses to preview. Renaming the file to .jpg changes nothing, because the bytes inside are still HEVC. Older Android phones have the same problem, and so does most web software. The reliable fix is to convert the photos once, before they leave the phone: HEIC to JPG takes up to fifty files at a time, keeps the capture date and camera data, lets you drop the GPS coordinates, and returns a ZIP that any device opens.
Frequently asked questions
Can I convert HEIC to JPG without losing quality?
Not strictly: HEIC is already lossy, and JPEG re-encodes it. At quality 90 the difference is invisible, so convert once from the original and keep the HEIC on the phone rather than converting a conversion.
Why does Windows not open HEIC?
Windows 10 and 11 need the HEIF Image Extensions from the Microsoft Store, and often the paid HEVC extension too; without them Photos shows a broken thumbnail. Converting to JPG on this page sidesteps the codec entirely.
Does conversion keep the date and location?
The capture date and camera settings are rewritten into the JPG's EXIF block. Location is a separate switch in HEIC to JPG: keep the GPS coordinates for your own archive, drop them before posting the photos anywhere public.