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iPhones save photos as HEIC, and then a form, a shop or an older computer refuses the file. This page converts one HEIC (or HEIF) photo to a JPG here in your browser, at full size, turned upright if it was stored turned. PNG and WebP are one tap away on the same ticket if those serve you better. A whole folder of mixed photos is the batch convert page, which takes HEIC as well.
For one iPhone photo that has to arrive as a JPG: a form that refuses HEIC, a shop upload, a photo for an older computer, a picture to send someone whose phone is not an iPhone.
Pick a HEIC photo
Pick JPG, PNG or WebP and the quality
Download the converted photo
Drop a HEIC photo on the tray, or click to pick one
HEIC or HEIF in · JPG, PNG or WebP out · it stays on this device
The format changes, and the dimensions do not. Two honest changes ride along, stated before you run: a HEIC can hold more brightness range than a JPG can show, so a very bright photo may lose a little of that extra range in the copy (PNG keeps more of it, and the file is bigger); and if the photo was stored turned, the copy comes out upright.
JPG cannot hold see-through pixels. Most iPhone photos have none, but if yours does, those parts are painted over this colour: white, unless you pick another. The result line says when this happened.
Higher keeps more detail and more bytes. 90 is a good all-round setting. PNG has no quality setting: it is written exactly.
Pick a HEIC photo to begin.
The photo is decoded by libheif, the open-source HEIC reader (LGPL; the full credit, licence and source links are on the credits page), and written by the same image program the other convert doors run. The first HEIC run loads the reader (about 1.6 MB, one time only, and only when a HEIC file arrives) and the image program (about 2 MB, one time only). The download is how we protect your privacy: the program comes to your device and does the work there, so your photo never leaves it.
The copy is a standard-range picture: the extra brightness information an iPhone keeps for its own screen does not fit in a JPG, a PNG or a WebP as written here, so keep the HEIC if it is your master copy. A Live Photo's still picture converts; the short video that travels with it is a separate thing and is not extracted. And this page converts still photos: a HEIC that is only a video sequence has no still to give and the page will say it could not read one.
It is a smaller file for the same picture, about half the size of a JPG on the phone. The catch shows up later: forms, shops, older computers and some websites refuse it, and not every program can open it. This page turns it into a JPG (or a PNG or WebP) that opens anywhere.
Nearly. A HEIC can hold more colour and brightness range than a JPG can show, so a photo with very bright areas may lose a little of that extra range in the copy. For most photos nothing visible changes. PNG keeps more of the range and the file is bigger; pick PNG above if the photo matters more than the size.
The still picture converts. A Live Photo also carries a short video; that part is not a photo and this page does not extract it. If the file you picked holds one, the result line says so, and only the still was converted.
Yes. iPhone photos are often stored turned, with a note in the file saying how they stand. This page reads the note, by the file's own rotation property or its EXIF note, and the copy comes out upright, the step some converters skip.
Nowhere. The HEIC reader program (about 1.6 MB, loaded once, only when a HEIC file arrives) comes to your browser and the work happens here in the page. Nothing is uploaded.