Convert HEIC photos to JPG
HEIC (also called HEIF) is the photo format many phones use by default. It keeps good quality at a small size, but plenty of programs, websites and older computers can't open it. JPG opens everywhere.
- Upload one or more
.heicor.heifphotos, or a ZIP of a folder of them. - Keep “JPG / JPEG” and quality 90, or pick another quality.
- Click Convert and download the JPGs, all together as a ZIP or one by one.
What happens to your photos
- They stay upright. HEIC stores the rotation of the photo separately from the pixels; the converter applies it, so the JPG shows the right way up in every program.
- Location data is removed by default. HEIC photos usually carry camera info (EXIF), including where the photo was taken. It is left out unless you tick “Keep camera info” under More options.
- Colours stay the same. The pictures are decoded with libheif, the same open-source library many photo programs use.
- Size. At quality 90 a JPG is usually larger than the HEIC it came from, because JPG is an older, less efficient format. Choose a lower quality, or set “Also shrink to” under More options for smaller files.
Good to know
- Live Photos keep only the still picture; the short video part isn't included.
- A HEIC file that holds several pictures (a burst, for example) gives its main picture.
- If you'd rather keep every detail, convert to PNG instead: lossless, but much larger.
- To make many photos smaller for email or the web, set “Also shrink to” a longest side of, say, 2000 pixels.
- Transparent HEIC pictures (rare, such as cut-out stickers) get a white background in JPG; pick another colour under More options, or choose PNG to keep the transparency.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Image Converter.