Convert HEIC to JPG
Convert iPhone photos to JPG so they open on Windows, in Word, and on the upload forms that keep rejecting them.
Drop your HEIC files here
or click to browse · paste with Ctrl+V · files never leave your device
Nothing queued yet. Add as many files as you like — everything runs on your own device.
Nothing is uploaded
Conversion runs in your browser. Your files never touch a server, so there is no copy of them to leak.
No sign-up, no watermark
No account, no email, no daily limit, and nothing stamped across your image.
Batch and folders
Drop a hundred files at once and download the results as a single ZIP.
Works offline
Once this page has loaded you can disconnect entirely and it still works.
Since iOS 11 the iPhone camera has saved photos as HEIC rather than JPG. It is a genuinely better format — around half the file size at the same quality — and inside Apple’s world it is invisible, because your phone and your Mac both handle it silently. The trouble starts the moment a photo leaves that world. Windows needs a codec that is not installed by default, Android messaging apps often will not preview it, and university applications, visa portals, insurance claims and job sites reject it outright.
This converter turns HEIC into JPG inside your browser. That matters more here than for most conversions, because the photos people need to convert are so often passports, driving licences, signed documents and medical scans. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no copy of your ID sitting on somebody else’s server.
You can drop in an entire camera roll export at once and download the results as a single ZIP. There is no file count limit and no watermark.
How to convert HEIC to JPG
- Add your HEIC files. Drag them onto the box above, click to browse, or paste an image straight from your clipboard. You can add as many at once as you like.
- Adjust the settings if you need to. The defaults suit most images. Raise the quality slider if the image contains text or flat colour. Pick a background colour if your image has transparent areas.
- Download the JPG file. Each file gets its own download button as soon as it finishes, and you can pull the whole batch down as a single ZIP.
What changes when you convert HEIC to JPG
Every format conversion involves trade-offs, and vague tools hide them. Here is exactly what happens to your image in this particular conversion.
- Live Photos are converted to their still frame. A Live Photo is a HEIC image plus a separate short video file, and only the image is inside the .HEIC you have — the motion lives in a .MOV alongside it. The JPG you get here is exactly the frame you would see in Photos.
- JPG has no transparency channel, so any transparent areas are filled with a solid colour. White is used by default and you can pick a different colour before converting — this is the single most common surprise when going from HEIC to JPG.
- Both formats are lossy, so the file is being re-compressed. We decode HEIC at full fidelity and re-encode once at your chosen quality, which keeps generational loss to a minimum, but converting back and forth repeatedly will visibly degrade an image.
- HEIC files from an iPhone carry EXIF orientation. We apply the rotation while decoding, so your photo comes out the right way up rather than sideways — a bug in a surprising number of converters.
Getting the photos off your iPhone as HEIC in the first place
A common frustration is that the files arrive already converted, or arrive sideways. It depends entirely on how you transferred them. AirDrop to a Mac keeps HEIC. Plugging into a PC and copying from the DCIM folder gives you the original HEIC files. Emailing photos to yourself, or sharing them through most messaging apps, silently converts them to JPG on the way out — so if your files are already .jpg, that is why.
If you would rather your phone stopped producing HEIC at all, open Settings, then Camera, then Formats, and choose "Most Compatible". New photos are saved as JPG from then on; existing ones stay HEIC, which is what this page is for. There is a second setting under Settings, Photos, "Transfer to Mac or PC" — leave it on "Automatic" and iOS converts during transfer.
Why your converted photos come out rotated, and why these do not
The iPhone sensor is fixed in the body, so every photo is captured in the same orientation regardless of how you were holding the phone. Which way is up is recorded separately, as an EXIF orientation tag, and the viewer is expected to apply the rotation.
A lot of converters decode the pixels and ignore that tag. The result is a JPG that looks correct in some applications and lies on its side in others — the classic symptom of a photo that appeared fine on your phone and sideways in the document you pasted it into. This converter reads the orientation while decoding and bakes the rotation into the output, so the JPG is upright everywhere with no tag left to misinterpret.
About HEIC / HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format)
HEIC is the format an iPhone uses by default, storing photos at roughly half the size of an equivalent JPG.
Where you probably got it: Photos taken on an iPhone or iPad with default camera settings.
Strengths
- About half the file size of JPG at the same visual quality
- Keeps depth maps, Live Photo data, HDR and wide colour
- Saves a great deal of space on your phone
Limitations
- Windows needs a paid codec from the Microsoft Store to even preview it
- Rejected by most websites, upload forms and older software
- Patent-encumbered, which is why support outside Apple is so poor
About JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
JPG is the lossy photographic format that has been the default for digital cameras and the web since 1992.
Support: Universal. If a program can open an image at all, it can open a JPG.
Strengths
- Opens in literally every image viewer, editor, printer and web form ever made
- Very small files for photographs, with a quality dial you control
- Hardware-accelerated decoding on every phone and camera
Limitations
- No transparency — transparent areas have to be flattened onto a solid colour
- Lossy: each re-save discards a little more detail permanently
- Blocky artefacts around sharp edges, text and flat colour
Is it safe to convert HEIC online?
Here, yes — and you can check rather than trust. Open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the Network tab and convert a HEIC file: no request carrying your image is made. Disconnect from the internet after this page has loaded and the converter still works, which would be impossible if a server were doing the conversion.
That is worth verifying wherever you convert, because most online converters do upload, and HEIC files are so often ID photos, medical scans and screenshots of bank apps — iPhone camera rolls are full of documents as well as pictures. Once a file is on somebody else’s server you are relying on a privacy policy rather than on anything you can observe. We wrote up how to tell a safe converter from a risky one in more detail.
Frequently asked questions
Is it safe to convert passport and ID photos here?
Yes, and you can verify it rather than take our word for it. Open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and convert a file: no request carrying your image is made. You can also disconnect from the internet once this page has loaded and the converter still works, which would be impossible if a server were doing the work. This is the main reason the site was built this way — identity documents are the single most common thing people convert.
Can I convert a whole folder of iPhone photos at once?
Yes. Drag the folder onto the drop area, or select every file in the picker. Each photo converts independently and gets its own download button, and there is a button to download the entire batch as one ZIP. Because the work happens on your own device, the only real limit is memory — a few hundred photos is comfortable on a laptop, less so on a phone.
Why is my HEIC file so much smaller than the JPG it produces?
HEIC uses HEVC, a modern video-derived compressor, and achieves roughly the same visual quality as JPG in about half the space. Converting to JPG therefore roughly doubles the file size — a 2 MB HEIC commonly becomes a 3 to 4 MB JPG. If the destination has an upload limit, lower the quality slider, or use the compress tool to hit an exact target size.
How do I convert HEIC to JPG?
Drag your HEIC file onto the box above, or click it to browse. The conversion starts immediately in your browser and the JPG download appears within a second or two for most images. You can drop in a whole folder of files at once and download them together as a ZIP.
Does HEIC to JPG keep transparency?
It cannot — JPG has no transparency channel at all. Transparent pixels are filled with a background colour, which defaults to white. Use the background colour picker before converting if you need black or a brand colour instead. If you need to keep the transparency, convert to PNG or WebP rather than JPG.
Will converting HEIC to JPG reduce the quality?
A little. Both formats are lossy, so the image is decompressed and re-compressed once. We decode at full fidelity and encode a single time at your chosen quality, so a one-off conversion is close to invisible — but avoid converting the same image back and forth repeatedly.
How do I stop my iPhone making HEIC files in the first place?
Open Settings, then Camera, then Formats, and choose "Most Compatible" instead of "High Efficiency". New photos will be saved as JPG. Existing photos stay HEIC, which is what this converter is for. There is also a related setting under Settings > Photos > Transfer to Mac or PC — set it to "Automatic" and iOS converts on transfer.
What is the difference between HEIC and JPG?
HEIC is the format an iPhone uses by default, storing photos at roughly half the size of an equivalent JPG. JPG is the lossy photographic format that has been the default for digital cameras and the web since 1992. In practice the choice comes down to compatibility: native on Apple devices, awkward on Windows, and refused by most upload forms — the single most common reason people convert an image. Meanwhile universal. If a program can open an image at all, it can open a JPG.