HEIC to JPG Converter

Convert iPhone HEIC / HEIF photos to JPG right in your browser — private and free.

Drop a .heic or .heif file here

or click to browse — converted entirely in your browser

The converted JPG does not retain original metadata such as camera details, dates or GPS location.

HEIC decoding powered by heic2any (MIT licence).

About the HEIC to JPG tool

The HEIC to JPG tool converts Apple HEIC/HEIF photos — the default format on modern iPhones — into widely compatible JPG images. Conversion runs in your browser, so your photos stay private.

HEIC files are not openable on many Windows PCs, older browsers, and editing tools. Converting to JPG makes them instantly shareable and editable everywhere.

HEIC is the default photo format on iPhones running iOS 11 and later because it halves the file size of an equivalent JPG at the same quality. The trade-off is compatibility: HEIC is not recognised by many Windows PCs, older image editors, content management systems, and web upload forms, which refuse the file or display it as a broken icon.

Converting HEIC to JPG the moment you move photos off your iPhone avoids every one of those compatibility problems. The JPG output opens in every operating system, browser, and editing tool, and uploads to every web form, so you can share and edit your photos anywhere without explaining what a HEIC file is.

How to use HEIC to JPG

  1. 1Select one or more HEIC photos from your iPhone.
  2. 2Start the conversion. The tool decodes each HEIC file and re-encodes it as JPG in your browser.
  3. 3Download the JPG images individually or as a batch.
  4. 4Confirm the images open correctly in your target application.

How the browser-based processing works

Conversion runs entirely in your browser. When you load HEIC photos, the tool uses the heic2any library to decode the HEIC container — which stores image data in the High Efficiency Image Coding format — into raw pixels, then re-encodes those pixels as a standard JPG using the browser native image encoder. The decoding and encoding both happen on your device CPU.

Your photos never leave your device — there is no upload, no server-side conversion, and no copy retained after download. The original HEIC files on your device are never modified; the tool produces new JPG files you download alongside them. Because HEIC decoding is computationally heavier than JPG, very large batches take a few seconds per image on slower hardware, but there is no artificial file-size cap from Convert26.

You can select multiple HEIC photos and the tool converts each one to a separate JPG so you can download them all. If you also need to shrink the resulting JPGs for web or email, follow up with the Compress Image tool. To change the dimensions, use Resize Image. For converting in the other direction — standard images into a different format — use the Image Format Converter.

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