RunToolRunHEIC to JPG
Convert HEIC files to JPG format.
How to Convert HEIC to JPG
Select your HEIC photos
Click the upload area or drop the .heic files from your iPhone or iPad. Batch conversion is supported.
Decoding happens on your device
Each HEIC photo is decoded and re-encoded as JPG right in your browser — your personal photos are never uploaded anywhere.
Download the JPGs
Save each converted photo — now it opens on Windows, Android and every app.
Why your photos are HEIC in the first place
HEIC is a container holding images encoded with HEVC, the same codec family used for modern video. It reaches roughly half the file size of a JPEG at comparable quality, which is why Apple made it the default camera format — it doubles the effective capacity of a phone's storage without a visible cost.
It also carries things JPEG cannot: multiple images in one file, depth maps, transparency, and the sequence of frames behind a Live Photo. That richness is precisely why other software struggles with it — reading a HEIC properly means handling a container format, not just decoding a picture.
The compatibility problem is real and not your fault
Support outside the Apple ecosystem remains patchy. Windows requires codec extensions that are not installed by default, many web upload forms reject the extension outright, older Android builds cannot open the files, and a great deal of professional and institutional software has never been updated to handle them.
The result is the familiar situation where a photo looks fine on the phone that took it and is unusable everywhere else. Converting to JPEG trades file size and features for the one format that every device, browser and upload form built in the last thirty years accepts without argument.
What the conversion costs
Both formats are lossy, so decoding a HEIC and re-encoding it as JPEG is a second generation of loss. At high quality settings the difference is not visible on any normal photograph, but it is real, and repeating the round trip repeatedly is not free.
The file will also grow, typically to roughly double the size — that is the same efficiency gap that made HEIC attractive, running in reverse. Extra frames are discarded: a Live Photo becomes a single still, and a burst becomes one image. If the motion matters, export it as a video from the phone instead of converting the HEIC.
Metadata, dates and orientation
Photographs carry EXIF metadata: capture date, camera settings, often GPS coordinates. Conversion may or may not preserve it depending on the tool, and losing it means losing the date your photo library sorts by — a converted archive can arrive with every file dated today.
Orientation deserves particular attention. Cameras usually store the image in sensor orientation plus a rotation flag rather than rotating the pixels. If that flag is not honoured during conversion, photographs come out sideways. It is worth checking a handful of converted images before deleting the originals, and worth keeping the originals regardless — they are the higher-quality copy.
Converting without uploading
Phone photographs are among the most personal files people own, and they usually carry the location where they were taken embedded in the file. This tool decodes HEIC in the browser, so the images are processed on your own device and no copy is sent to a server.
Decoding is computationally heavy — HEVC was designed for hardware decoders — so a large batch takes real time and real memory in a browser tab. Converting in groups rather than several hundred at once is the difference between a slow operation and an unresponsive tab.