Convert HEIC to JPGRight in Your Browser

Since iOS 11 (2017), iPhones save photos as HEIC — a modern format that stores great-looking images in roughly half the space of JPEG. The catch is compatibility: Windows needs paid codec extensions to open HEIC, many Android apps ignore it, older versions of Photoshop and Office reject it, and a long tail of websites, government portals and upload forms simply refuse the file. That's why the photo that looks fine on your phone becomes a problem the moment you try to use it anywhere else.

Converting HEIC to JPG produces a universally supported image. This converter decodes the HEIC on your device and re-encodes it as a 90%-quality JPEG — a setting that is visually indistinguishable from the original for photographs. You can drop in an entire camera roll at once; each photo converts independently, and batches download together as a ZIP.

When shouldn't you convert? If the photos are staying inside the Apple ecosystem — Photos, iMessage, iCloud — leave them as HEIC and keep the storage savings; Apple software converts automatically when it needs to. And if you plan heavy editing, consider HEIC to PNG instead: PNG is lossless, so repeated edit-and-save cycles won't stack up compression artifacts the way JPEG re-saves do.

The privacy angle matters more for photos than almost any file type, because camera images carry EXIF metadata — often including the GPS location of your home — and a personal photo library is nobody else's business. Here the conversion runs entirely in your browser: your photos are never transmitted, and you can confirm that with the network tab open while you convert.