Does converting HEIC to JPG reduce the quality?

A little, because JPEG is a lossy format, but at the default quality of ninety the difference is not visible on a phone photo. The pixel size and the colours are kept; only the compression changes. Lower the slider for smaller files.

Can I get a PNG instead of a JPG?

Yes: drop the HEIC on the Image Converter, which takes it too and offers PNG, WebP and BMP. JPG is the default here because it is what a HEIC replaces and what every device opens.

Why does my HEIC come out on a white background?

JPEG has no transparency, so the rare HEIC with see-through pixels is flattened onto white. Photos from a camera are never transparent, so this does not come up for them.

HEIC to JPG

Turn iPhone and Android HEIC photos into JPEGs that open anywhere. Decoded in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Drop HEIC photos here

HEIC or HEIF, from an iPhone, iPad or Android phone. Up to 50 MB each.

About this tool

Turns the HEIC photos an iPhone, iPad or recent Android phone takes into ordinary JPEGs, in your browser. Drop one photo or a folder's worth, set the quality, and save. Chrome, Firefox and Windows cannot open HEIC on their own, which is why the picture you were sent shows as a broken file; this page decodes it with the same open-source library the big desktop tools use, compiled to run in the page, so the photo is never uploaded anywhere.

How to use it

1Drop HEIC or HEIF photos onto the page, as many as you like.
2Set the JPEG quality. Ninety is hard to tell from the original; seventy is about a third of the size.
3Press Convert to JPG, then save each photo or all of them at once, or send them on to another tool.

Good to know

What HEIC is, and why nothing opens it

HEIC is Apple's container for photos compressed with HEVC, the video codec, which halves the file size of a JPEG at the same quality. That codec carries patents, so most browsers and Windows ship without a decoder for it. The decoder here is libheif, an open-source library, compiled to WebAssembly and fetched only when you open a HEIC, about two megabytes once. The file is read into memory by your own browser and processed there, so it is never uploaded and never reaches a server.

Orientation and Live Photos

A phone stores a portrait photo sideways with a note to rotate it, and the note is honoured here, so the JPEG comes out upright. A Live Photo's HEIC holds the still frame; the short video lives in a separate file the phone keeps beside it, and only the still is converted.

Every image tool takes HEIC now

The same decoder sits behind the image converter, the crop, resize and rotate tools, the background remover and the video editor, so a HEIC can be dropped straight on any of them. This page is the short road when all you want is a JPG.