HEIC to JPG

Why your iPhone photos won't open — and the private fix

Since iOS 11, iPhones save photos in HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container). It is a genuinely better format — about half the file size of JPG at the same quality — but the rest of the world never caught up. Windows wants a paid extension to open it, older Android phones can't read it, and most upload forms, CMSs and printing services reject it outright. The practical fix is converting to JPG, the one format that works everywhere.

Most “free HEIC converter” sites work by uploading your camera roll to their servers. Think about what's in those photos — your family, your home, location metadata — and that trade stops feeling free. This converter embeds the same decoder Apple's format relies on (libheif), compiled to WebAssembly, so the conversion runs inside your browser. Files never cross the network, which is also why there is no 30-file batch cap and no size limit here: your own device does the work, so we have nothing to meter.

How to convert HEIC to JPG

• Drop your photos — anywhere on this page. Select a whole folder's worth if you like.
• Pick a format. JPG for compatibility, PNG if you need lossless, WebP if you want files even smaller than the originals.
• Convert and save. Each photo shows its own progress; download files individually or grab everything as a single zip.

Conversion happens at the photo's full original resolution — a 48-megapixel ProRAW-derived HEIC comes out as a 48-megapixel JPG. If you also want the result smaller for email or the web, run it through the compressor or resizer afterwards.

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