Convert HEIC to JPG

Every photo an iPhone has taken since iOS 11 is saved as HEIC by default. It is an excellent format — roughly half the file size of a JPEG at the same visible quality — right up to the moment you email one to somebody on Windows, upload it to a job application, or drop it into software that was written before 2017. Then it simply will not open.

This converter turns HEIC files into ordinary JPGs that open anywhere. Drop in as many as you like; the conversion happens inside this browser tab using WebAssembly, so your photos are never transmitted to a server. There is no upload step, no queue, and no file leaving your device.

How to convert HEIC to JPG

1. Drag your HEIC files onto the box above, or click it to browse.
2. Each file converts in place — no upload, no queue.
3. Download them one by one, or grab the whole batch as a ZIP.

Why Windows cannot open HEIC files

HEIC is a container format (formally HEIF, ISO/IEC 23008-12) holding an image compressed with HEVC, also known as H.265. HEVC is covered by a large patent pool, and the licensing fees are why Microsoft never shipped decoding support in Windows by default. On Windows 10 you are prompted to buy the HEVC Video Extension from the Microsoft Store; Windows 11 handles many HEIC files natively, but the support is inconsistent across applications.

The result is that a format designed to save storage on your phone becomes an obstacle the moment the photo goes anywhere else. Converting to JPG trades some file size for the guarantee that every device made in the last thirty years can read it.

What is preserved, and what is not

Image dimensions are kept exactly — a 4032 × 3024 HEIC becomes a 4032 × 3024 JPG. Rotation is applied correctly, so portrait photos do not come out sideways, a common failure in cheaper converters that ignore the EXIF orientation flag.

Two things are deliberately dropped. EXIF metadata — the GPS coordinates, camera model, and timestamp — is not carried across, which most people converting a photo to send to somebody else consider a feature rather than a loss. And if the HEIC came from a Live Photo, only the still frame is converted; the short video attached to it is discarded.

Expect the JPG to be roughly 1.5× to 2.5× the size of the HEIC it came from. That is not a flaw in the conversion; it is the compression advantage of HEVC over the 1992-vintage JPEG algorithm being given up in exchange for compatibility.

Converting a whole camera roll

Select or drag in any number of files at once. They are processed one after another rather than all at the same time — decoding a 12-megapixel HEIC is genuinely demanding work, and running twenty in parallel would freeze the tab. Each file becomes downloadable the moment it finishes, or you can take the whole batch as a single ZIP at the end.

A practical note on very large batches: because everything runs in memory, a few hundred high-resolution photos at once can exhaust the tab. Fifty at a time is comfortable on most machines.

Frequently asked questions

Other conversions

• HEIC to PNG Lossless, keeps transparency
• HEIC to WebP Smallest files for the web
• WebP to JPG Universal compatibility