How to Convert iPhone HEIC Photos to JPG

HEIC is the image format iPhones and iPads have used by default since iOS 11. It is Apple's packaging of the HEIF standard, and it stores photos at roughly half the size of a JPEG at similar quality, which is why Apple adopted it. On an Apple device everything just works.

The friction starts when you move that file elsewhere. Plenty of Windows apps, older photo editors, web upload forms, and other people's phones still cannot open a .heic file, so you get an error or a photo that simply will not load. Converting to JPG, which every device and app understands, or PNG when you need lossless quality, makes the photo universally usable.

This HEIC to JPG tool converts your photos locally in the browser. The files are never uploaded to a server, which matters because the photos coming off your phone are often personal, family pictures, documents you snapped, screenshots of private information.

Many HEIC converters online work by taking your upload, and you have little insight into what happens to that copy. Handling it locally avoids the question entirely. It also means no account, no watermark, and no cap on how many photos you can convert in one go, so a whole camera roll export is fine.

Because the tool handles several files at once, you can convert an entire batch of AirDropped or exported photos in a single pass.

For almost everyone, JPG is the right target: it opens everywhere, stays small, and is fine for photographs. Choose PNG only when you specifically need lossless output, for example a screenshot with text or an image you will edit further, and accept a larger file in return.

Be aware of two things you may lose in conversion. HEIC can store extras such as Live Photo motion and depth data that a flat JPG or PNG cannot carry, so those are dropped. Some tools also strip EXIF metadata like the date and GPS location during conversion; that is a privacy win if you are about to share the photo, but check the output if you were relying on that information being preserved.