HEIC to JPG: Convert iPhone Photos Instantly

What HEIC actually is — and what conversion costs

HEIC is Apple's branding of the HEIF container carrying HEVC (H.265) — usually Main Still Picture coding, often 10-bit on newer iPhones. It exists because H.265 encodes a 12 MP photo roughly half the size of JPEG at equal quality. That is also why browser support lags: HEVC is royalty-bearing, so Chrome and Firefox on desktop will not decode .heic natively and Safari remains the exception. This page decodes locally in a bundled libheif engine — nothing uploads, and once the 1.3 MB engine loads, conversion works fully offline.

Honesty about the trade: HEIC→JPEG is a lossy→lossy transcode. The decode is mathematically exact, but re-encoding at 80% discards information the original HEIC already spent to save space — you stack compression on compression. 90% is visually identical for photos; 70% is for upload caps only. The re-encode also strips all metadata: no GPS (good), no capture date (sometimes bad), and 10-bit HDR is flattened to 8-bit SDR.

• EXIF rotation — orientation is generally honored on decode, so sideways camera shots come out upright; spot-check the batch before an upload form accepts it.
• Format choice — JPG for photos; PNG only for flat graphics or transparency needs.
• Batch behavior — up to 50 files, converted sequentially on your CPU; it is your machine's work, not a server's.
• When to skip this tool — need location metadata, ICC fidelity or HDR originals? Export via Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible, or Photos/Preview; that's the lossless path this re-encode can never be.
• Honest limit — Live Photos arrive here as their still frame only; the motion component is not converted.

Need to hit an exact upload size too? Image Compressor shrinks JPG/PNG to a target like 200KB or 100KB. Wrong format entirely? Image Converter handles WebP, PNG and JPEG both ways. And if the photo came from a scanner with hidden data: EXIF Remover strips the GPS and camera info.