HEIC to JPG

How to convert HEIC to JPG

1. Drop one or more .heic or .heif photos onto the box above, or click it and pick them from your phone.
2. Pick the output. For JPG, choose a quality: High keeps the most detail, Medium is a sensible middle ground, Small gives the lightest files. PNG is lossless, with files several times larger.
3. Press Convert to JPG (or Convert to PNG). The status line names each photo as it is decoded, so you can see how far along a batch is.
4. Download the result. A single photo comes back keeping its original name with the new extension; two or more are packed into one archive called editzap-heic-converted.zip.

What people use it for

HEIC is what an iPhone or iPad saves photos in by default. The trouble begins when the picture has to leave Apple's world: Windows will not open it without an extra codec, older photo software ignores it, and a good many websites refuse the upload outright. Converting to JPG removes that friction in a single step.

• Emailing holiday photos to relatives who should be able to double-click and simply look at them.
• Uploading pictures to an insurance claim or a marketplace listing that accepts only JPG or PNG.
• Feeding photos into an older editor, a print shop's ordering page or a photo book service.
• Preparing pictures for a website, where the JPG can then be shrunk with Compress Image or scaled down with Resize Image.

Good to know

JPG is a lossy format, so some of the data HEIC was holding is discarded on the way out; at High quality the difference is hard to see, but repeated re-saving slowly softens a JPG. Your original is only read, never changed, so keep the HEIC if you may want to edit at full quality later. On an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, photos above about 16.7 megapixels, such as the 24 and 48 MP shots recent iPhones take, are scaled down to that size, the largest picture a phone browser can draw, and the status line says so; on a computer the limit is about 67 megapixels, so those photos keep their full size. The converted copy also leaves the photo's hidden details behind, from the GPS position to the date it was taken, which keeps your whereabouts private but means a gallery app may sort the copies by the day you converted them.

Everything happens inside this browser tab. Recent versions of Safari, on an iPhone, iPad or Mac, can open HEIC by themselves, which is quick. Other browsers fetch heic-to, an open-source decoder built on libheif, the first time it is needed; it runs in a background worker inside the tab, and each photo can take a few seconds, longer on an older phone. Either way the photos are converted by your own device and offered back as a download — no upload queue, no account, no copy left behind anywhere. If you would rather end up with a document than a folder of pictures, JPG to PDF collects the converted images into a single PDF.

Questions people ask

Does converting reduce the quality of my photo?

Slightly, if you choose JPG, because JPG compresses by throwing information away. High quality is close enough to the original for viewing, printing and sharing. PNG keeps every decoded pixel exactly, at the cost of much bigger files.

Can I convert a whole batch at once?

Yes. Add as many photos as you like; they are converted in sequence and delivered as a single ZIP. A damaged photo is skipped and named in the status line rather than stopping the batch. There is no cap, though very large batches are limited by your device's memory.

Does this work on an iPhone or an iPad?

It does. Open the page in Safari or Chrome, tap the drop area and choose photos from your library. The conversion runs on the phone itself, using its own HEIC support on recent iOS versions, which is often the quickest way to get a shareable JPG without changing your camera settings.

What is the difference between HEIC and HEIF?

HEIF is the image format; HEIC is Apple's container for it, and the extension you will normally see. Both are accepted here and both convert the same way.