Convert HEIC to JPG, free

What is HEIC, and why won't it open?

HEIC is Apple's image format: the iPhone has saved photos in it by default since 2017 and iOS 11. The format is good — the same picture is roughly half the size of a JPG and keeps more colour detail — but outside an iPhone almost nothing understands it. Older builds of Windows 10 show nothing but an icon without a separate codec, some Android devices will not open it, and most web forms, government portals and job boards simply refuse it.

JPG, by contrast, is the oldest and most widespread image format there is: anything that has ever displayed a picture opens it. If the HEIC photo needs to go onto a Windows PC, into a Word document, a web shop or an official form, JPG is the answer — and this page does exactly that one conversion.

How to convert: three steps, no upload

Drag the HEIC files into the box above, or pick them — up to twenty at a time. The conversion starts right away, and on the first photo your browser downloads a small decoder (Safari does not even need that, as it understands the format natively). Download the finished JPGs one by one or as a ZIP, or get a share link for them with one click.

What does not happen: your photos are not uploaded to any server. Most online HEIC converters upload the picture, convert it there and send it back — this tool works in your browser, on your own machine. That is why there is no daily limit and no queue, and why you can safely drop in family photos or a client's material.

You can also make the iPhone shoot JPG

If you regularly send photos to a Windows PC, two settings help. Under Settings → Camera → Formats, choosing "Most Compatible" makes the phone shoot JPG in the first place — at the cost of larger photos. At the bottom of Settings → Photos, under "Transfer to Mac or PC", "Automatic" means the phone converts to JPG itself during a cable transfer.

Neither applies retroactively to the HEIC photos you already have — that is what this page is for. And if you would rather keep HEIC on the phone for its better quality and smaller size, it is enough to convert just the few pictures you are passing on.

Location data and the device identifier are left out by default

A photo taken with a phone carries its GPS coordinates, the exact time and the device model. The conversion does not keep them by default, so the downloaded JPG does not reveal where or with what it was taken — the safe default for a classified ad or a social post. If you do need them, for instance because your album sorts by date, the "Keep metadata" switch carries the original EXIF block over.

One thing is always handled: orientation. A photo taken with the phone held sideways does not come out tilted in the JPG, because the rotation is baked into the pixels themselves — and so it cannot be rotated twice, the orientation in the retained EXIF is written as neutral.

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