HEIC to JPG Converter

About the HEIC to JPG Converter

Convert HEIC photos from an iPhone or iPad (and HEIF files from other cameras) to JPG — or PNG or WebP — in any browser, on any computer or phone. Safari opens HEIC by itself; in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and others the free, open-source libheif decoder (1.4 MB, WebAssembly) is downloaded once and runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

Convert a whole camera roll at once: hundreds of photos become one ZIP, built without copying them in memory. The date taken and camera details can be kept while the GPS location is removed, photos are turned the right way up, wide-gamut Display P3 colours are converted to standard sRGB so they look right everywhere, and files that hold several images open on their main (primary) image.

Common uses

• Opening iPhone photos on Windows, Android or Linux computers that cannot show HEIC.
• Uploading photos to websites, forms and printing services that accept only JPG.
• Sharing photos without their GPS location while keeping the date they were taken.
• Converting HEIC files received by email, chat or cloud storage.

What is a HEIC file?

A .heic file is a HEIF image (High Efficiency Image File Format, ISO/IEC 23008-12) compressed with HEVC (H.265). iPhones and iPads save photos as HEIC when Settings › Camera › Formats is set to High Efficiency, the default. HEIC keeps more quality per byte than JPG and can store extras such as depth maps, HDR information and several images in one file — but many apps, websites and older computers cannot open it.

Avoid HEIC in the first place

• On the iPhone, Settings › Camera › Formats › Most Compatible makes the camera save new photos as JPG.
• Settings › Photos › Transfer to Mac or PC › Automatic converts photos when you copy them to a computer by cable.
• On Windows, Microsoft’s HEIF Image Extensions together with the HEVC Video Extensions (Microsoft Store) let Photos open HEIC files.
• Macs open HEIC in Photos and Preview, and Safari 17 or later (iPhone, iPad and Mac) can decode HEIC in web pages — which this converter uses when it is available.

Date taken, location and orientation

HEIC photos carry EXIF metadata: the date and time taken, the camera, lens and exposure, and often the GPS position. Keep date & camera, remove location copies everything except the GPS block (the location is overwritten, not just hidden). The photo is rotated upright using the rotation stored in the HEIF file, and the EXIF orientation is set to “normal” so viewers do not turn it again. JPG, PNG and WebP can all carry EXIF; some websites remove it when you upload.

Colours: Display P3 to sRGB

iPhone cameras record in the wide Display P3 colour space. This converter reads the photo’s ICC profile (or its colour description) and converts the pixels to sRGB, the standard for the web and for most apps, using the profile’s own matrix and tone curves. Colours inside sRGB look the same; the most saturated P3 colours, which sRGB cannot show, are brought to the nearest sRGB colour.

Open-source decoder and licence

In browsers without built-in HEIC support, decoding uses libheif by struktur AG with the libde265 HEVC decoder, in the WebAssembly build published as libheif-js. Both are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL-3.0); the unmodified decoder is served as a separate file, and the complete source code is available from those projects. See also our open-source credits.

Limitations

• Up to 500 photos per batch, each up to 200 MB and 50 megapixels.
• Only the still image is converted: the video part of a Live Photo, depth maps and HDR gain maps are not included, so HDR photos become standard-range JPGs.
• Image sequences (bursts or animations stored as HEIF sequences) are not supported.
• The first conversion in Chrome, Edge or Firefox needs a connection to download the 1.4 MB decoder; afterwards it works offline.
• Very large photos (48 MP) need a lot of memory and may fail in phone browsers other than Safari.
• Converted photos stay in your browser’s memory until you clear the list or leave the page; on a phone, convert a very large camera roll in smaller groups.

Privacy

Your photos are decoded and converted on your device and are never uploaded. Browsers that cannot open HEIC themselves (Chrome, Edge, Firefox and others) download the libheif decoder program (1.4 MB) from this site once, the first time you add a photo; it is then kept by your browser, so the converter also works offline.