--- title: "HEIC to JPG" description: "Convert .heic iPhone photos to JPG, PNG, or WebP in your browser. The photos are decoded on your device and never uploaded. Drop a batch, download a zip." url: https://findutils.com/convert/heic-to-jpg/ category: convert --- # HEIC to JPG Convert .heic iPhone photos to JPG, PNG, or WebP in your browser. The photos are decoded on your device and never uploaded. Drop a batch, download a zip. **Use this tool:** [HEIC to JPG](https://findutils.com/convert/heic-to-jpg/) ## Programmatic access - Browser-only: this tool works on a file, the DOM, or a browser API and has no REST or MCP id. ## Why use this HEIC converter? Apple made HEIC the default camera format in 2017 because it stores a better picture in about half the space of a JPEG. The trouble starts the moment the photo leaves the phone: Windows shows a blank thumbnail, LinkedIn and most job portals reject the upload, and a colleague on a PC says they cannot open it. The usual workaround is to AirDrop the photo to a Mac and export a JPEG, which is several minutes for a batch. This page does the same job without the round trip. It decodes the HEIC with libheif compiled to WebAssembly and re-encodes it as a JPG, PNG, or WebP, all inside the browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no size cap imposed by an upload form, no queue, and no account. Drop one photo or fifty; the successful files come back individually or as a single zip. One honest limit is worth knowing up front. This handles the still images an iPhone or iPad camera writes. Some HDR and 10-bit variants, and the sequence files behind Live Photos, can fail to decode — when that happens the file is listed with an error and the rest of the batch continues. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Does this upload my photos? No. The decoder is WebAssembly running inside your browser tab, and the image bytes never leave your device. You can verify it yourself: open your browser's network panel before you drop a file, and you will see no request carrying the photo. ### Why does my iPhone save photos as HEIC? Apple switched the default camera format to HEIC in iOS 11 because it stores comparable or better image quality in roughly half the file size of a JPEG. The trade-off is compatibility — much of the web still expects a JPG. ### How do I stop my iPhone making HEIC files at all? On the phone, open Settings, then Camera, then Formats, and choose Most Compatible. New photos are then saved as JPEG. Photos already in your camera roll stay HEIC, which is why a converter is still useful. ### Can I convert several photos at once? Yes. Drop as many as you like. They are converted one after another so a large batch does not exhaust memory, and when more than one has finished you get a single heic-jpg.zip. If one photo fails, the others still download. ### Should I choose JPG, PNG, or WebP? JPG is the default because it is what upload forms, Windows, and social networks expect. Choose PNG if you need a lossless copy and do not mind a much larger file. Choose WebP for a web page, where it is typically 25-35% smaller than the same JPEG. ### Is the location data in my photo preserved? No, and that is deliberate. An iPhone writes GPS coordinates into every photo. Conversion goes through a canvas, which carries no metadata at all, so the location, camera model, and timestamp are all dropped. Your original HEIC file keeps them. ### Why did one of my files fail? This tool converts the still images an iPhone or iPad camera produces. Some HDR and 10-bit HEIC variants, and the multi-frame sequences behind Live Photos, cannot be decoded here. For those, open the photo in Photos on your phone and export a JPEG once. ### Is HEIC better quality than JPG? Usually yes, at a smaller file size. Treat the JPG as the compatible copy rather than the archival original, and keep the HEIC if you still have room for it. ### Is there a file size limit? There is no limit imposed by this page, because nothing is uploaded. The practical ceiling is your device's memory. Very large batches on an older phone are the case most likely to run out. ### Does it cost anything or need an account? No. There is no sign-up, no email, and no watermark. ## Related Tools - [Image Converter](https://findutils.com/convert/image-converter/) - [Image Compressor](https://findutils.com/convert/image-compressor/) - [Image Resizer](https://findutils.com/convert/image-resizer/) - [EXIF Remover](https://findutils.com/security/exif-remover/) - [Image to Base64](https://findutils.com/convert/image-to-base64/) - [Photo Editor](https://findutils.com/design/photo-editor/)