HEIC to JPG/PNG Converter

HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) and HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format) are modern image formats used by Apple devices since iOS 11. They produce smaller files than JPEG at equivalent quality using the HEVC codec. However, many platforms — including Windows applications, older Android versions, and most web services — cannot open HEIC files directly. Converting to JPG or PNG ensures universal compatibility.

No. The entire conversion process happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your photos never leave your device — no uploads, no server processing, no data collection. This makes the tool completely safe for personal and confidential photos.

Yes. You can drag and drop or select multiple HEIC/HEIF files and they will all be converted in batch. Each file is processed independently in your browser, and you can download them individually or all at once.

Choose JPG for photographs — it produces smaller files with adjustable quality and is universally supported. Choose PNG for images that require transparency or pixel-perfect quality, such as screenshots with text or graphics with sharp edges. JPG uses lossy compression (some quality loss), while PNG is lossless (no quality loss).

A quality of 85–92% is ideal for most photos — it produces visually indistinguishable results from the original while significantly reducing file size. Use 95%+ when quality is critical (print, portfolio). Use 70–80% when file size matters more than quality (web thumbnails, email attachments).

HEIC uses more efficient compression than JPEG, so HEIC files are typically smaller than equivalent-quality JPEGs. When you convert HEIC to JPG, the output may be larger because JPEG compression is less efficient. You can reduce the JPG quality setting to achieve smaller file sizes at the cost of some visual quality.

There's a small, one-time quality cost, but at sensible settings it's invisible. JPEG is a lossy format, so re-encoding the decoded HEIC into JPEG discards some data — at 90%+ quality the difference is imperceptible to the eye, while lower settings trade visible quality for smaller files. Crucially, your ORIGINAL HEIC file is never modified; the converter creates a new JPG and leaves the source untouched, so you can always re-convert at a higher quality. If you need zero quality loss (archival, heavy editing afterward), convert to PNG instead — it's lossless, at the cost of a much larger file. For everyday sharing and viewing, JPG at 90% is the right call.

Orientation is handled correctly — the converter reads the EXIF orientation tag from the HEIC and bakes the correct rotation into the output, so iPhone photos taken sideways come out upright rather than rotated. Other EXIF fields (capture date, GPS location, camera settings) may or may not carry over depending on the conversion, and many browser-based converters drop them. That's actually a privacy BENEFIT in many cases — a JPG stripped of GPS and device data is safer to share publicly. But if you specifically need to preserve the original date and location (for archiving or organizing), check the output with the EXIF Viewer afterward, and keep the original HEIC as your metadata-complete master copy.