Convert iPhone photos to JPG in your browser
Since iOS 11, iPhones can save photos as HEIC, and “High Efficiency” is the default camera format (Apple: Using HEIF or HEVC media on Apple devices). That is great for storage on the phone, but the moment you send a photo to a Windows PC, an Android phone, an online form or an older photo printer, you often get “file not supported”. JPG is the format every device and website understands, so this converter turns your HEIC photos into plain .jpg files in a few seconds.
Drop one photo or a whole set. The first one is shown as a preview with its size in pixels; the download keeps the full resolution of every photo, and several photos come back as one ZIP file.
How the conversion works (and why nothing is uploaded)
Most online HEIC converters send your photos to a server. This one does not. What happens depends on your browser:
- Safari on recent versions of macOS, iPhone and iPad can read HEIC itself, so the browser decodes the photo directly.
- Chrome, Edge and Firefox cannot read HEIC. For them, the page loads a WebAssembly HEIC decoder (based on the open-source libheif library) the first time you convert a photo. It is about 3 MB and is downloaded from this site, not a third party, then cached by your browser.
The decoded pixels are then saved as JPG by the browser’s own encoder. Your photo stays on your computer or phone from start to finish, and the site’s security policy only allows the page to connect to its own server.
Settings: quality
The only setting is Quality, from 50% to 100% (92% by default).
| Quality | Good for |
|---|---|
| 92% (default) | Keeping, printing, sharing — very close to the original |
| 80% | Email and messaging, noticeably smaller files |
| 100% | Photos you will edit again; largest files |
HEIC photos from an iPhone have no transparency, so no background color is needed. If you need a lossless copy for editing, use HEIC to PNG instead; to shrink the JPG further after converting, use Compress Image.
Stop your iPhone from saving HEIC
If you would rather get JPG files from the start, there are two settings on the iPhone:
- Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible. The camera then saves new photos as JPG (and videos as H.264). Photos take more space on the phone.
- Settings → Apps → Photos (Settings → Photos on older iOS) → Transfer to Mac or PC → Automatic. The iPhone keeps HEIC but can convert photos to JPG when you import them to a computer over USB; “Keep Originals” turns this off, as Apple’s page above explains.
Neither setting converts photos you already have, and photos shared through AirDrop, iCloud or a messaging app can still arrive as HEIC. That is where this tool helps.
Opening HEIC on Windows, Android and the web
- Windows 10 and 11: without Microsoft’s HEIF and HEVC extensions, Photos can’t open HEIC. Converting is often simpler than installing codecs on every PC.
- Android: recent Android versions can show HEIC in the gallery, but many apps and upload forms still reject it.
- Websites: many upload forms only accept JPG, PNG or WebP. A converted JPG works everywhere.
Privacy and metadata
Because the JPG is rebuilt from pixels, hidden EXIF data — GPS coordinates, date taken, phone model — is left out of the output. That is usually what you want before sharing a photo publicly. For a full comparison of the two formats, read HEIC vs JPG. If you want to see what a photo contains first, open it in the EXIF Viewer; to strip metadata from JPG files you already have, use Remove EXIF Data.