Turn iPhone and iPad photos (HEIC) into JPG that opens in every program, phone and website.
Convert many photos at once, no sign-up
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v1.0 Updated 27 Oct 2026 What's new
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Three steps, the same on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android. Nothing to install, and your photos never leave your device.
JPG is already picked under Save as. Quality 90 keeps every detail you can see, and a lower number gives smaller files.
Drop them on the box or press Choose images. A whole folder works too, and so does pasting with Ctrl+V or ⌘V.
Each photo has its own download button. Download all saves them together in one ZIP file.
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Your computer or phone may already do it. Here is what each one has built in, and where it stops.
If Photos can't open the file, install the free HEIF Image Extension from the Microsoft Store. Some PCs also need HEVC Video Extensions, and Photos saves one picture at a time.
For a single photo you can also open it in Preview, choose File › Export and pick JPEG.
iPhone has no Save as JPG button for photos it already took. To take new photos as JPG, see stop saving HEIC below.
Android itself has no Save as JPG button for HEIC photos. Some Samsung phones convert when sharing, but only one photo at a time.
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Drop a whole holiday at once, with no daily limit and no cap on the number of files. Nothing waits in a queue on a server, because your own device does the work.
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HEIC is the photo format iPhones and iPads have used since iOS 11 in 2017, compressed with HEVC (H.265) like 4K video. That is why it takes much less space than a JPG that looks the same.
Apple devices open HEIC without a second thought. Many websites, upload forms, older Windows PCs and office programs do not, and that is when a photo needs to become a JPG.
iPhone 7 and later save HEIC when Settings › Camera › Formats is set to High Efficiency, which is the default. To take new photos as JPG instead:
Photos you already took stay HEIC. When you AirDrop, message or email a photo to a device that can't read HEIC, the iPhone may send a JPG by itself.
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| HEIC | JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| File size | Smaller: 1.6 MB for a 12 MP iPhone photo in our test | Larger: 2.5 MB for the same photo at quality 90 |
| Opens on | Apple devices, plus Windows and Android with extra support | Every phone, computer and program |
| Websites and upload forms | Often refused | Accepted everywhere |
| Colour depth | Up to 10-bit, wide colour, HDR | 8-bit, standard colour |
| Transparency | Possible | No (use PNG) |
| Best for | Keeping photos on Apple devices | Sharing, uploading and printing |
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Very little, and not in a way you can see at quality 90. JPG compresses the picture again, so fine details change slightly, while colours, sharpness and size stay as they were.
Two things do change. Wide colour and HDR brightness become standard colour, so the photo looks the same on every screen.
The JPG also comes out bigger than the HEIC, because JPG compresses less well. For pixels that are exactly the same, pick PNG, though the file gets far bigger.
Want a JPG no bigger than the HEIC? Set Quality to 75: in our test it came out at 1.4 MB, and the change was still too small to see.
At quality 90 the colours differ from the exact PNG by less than 1% on average. Converted in Chrome on an older two-core laptop in about 5 seconds.
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Renaming changes only the name, and the picture inside is still HEIC. It has to be converted, which is what the tool above does.
Windows reads HEIC only with the HEIF Image Extension and, on some PCs, HEVC Video Extensions. The converter here needs neither.
iPhones store the turn of a photo separately from the picture. The converter applies it, so the JPG stands the right way up.
That is normal, because JPG compresses less well. Set Quality to 75 for about the HEIC's size, or use Max file size under Extra settings.
HDR and wide colour are made to fit standard colour, which every screen shows the same way. Bright highlights may look calmer.
A JPG holds one picture, so the still photo is kept. The movement is a separate video that stays on the iPhone.
Short answers about what the converter keeps and what stays private.
No. The converter runs inside your browser, so your HEIC files are read and the JPG files are made on your own device. Nothing is sent to a server.
It is free, with no sign-up, no watermark, no daily limit and no file size limit set by us. Very large photos depend on how much memory your device has. If one is too big, it is saved smaller and the list says so.
Yes. JPG and JPEG are the same format, and .jpg and .jpeg are two spellings of the file ending. The converter saves .jpg, which every program accepts.
Only if you want them to. Photo details such as the place, the date and the camera are left out by default, which is safer when you share. Turn on Keep photo details under Extra settings to keep them.
Yes. Open this page in Safari, tap Choose images, pick your photos and tap Download all. It works the same on iPad and on Android phones in Chrome.
Yes. Quality 75 gives a JPG about the size of the HEIC with no change you can see, and Size or Max file size under Extra settings go smaller still.
Yes, with Images to PDF: drop the HEIC photos, drag them into order, and each one becomes a page of one PDF.
HEIC and HEIF photos from iPhones, iPads, Macs and Android phones, including photos with transparency. The converter reads them inside your browser, and Safari reads them by itself.